August 2nd, Friday, at 2pm, in room 4 of the Faculty of Communication of UFBA, Brazil.

In the context of the launch of his new book, Paulo Victor Melo (ICNOVA) will give an open lecture on “Surveillance Culture, Algorithms and Race Relations”, covering topics such as hyper-surveillance of public spaces, the racial implications of facial recognition technologies and algorithmic racism. The book “Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms: challenges and opportunities for the media”, co-organized with Adriana Gonçalves and Luísa Torre, is available in open access here.