Biography
João Gonçalves is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands). His research relates to artificial intelligence, democracy and the impacts of digitalization. He investigates topics such as online hate speech, discrimination from artificial intelligence algorithms and developed the Erasmian Language Model, an open-source and sustainable alternative to ChatGPT. Together with Jason Pridmore, he was awarded the Horizon Europe SEISMEC (Supporting European Industry Success Maximization through Empowerment Centered development) project funded with 10 million euros by the European Commission, leading a consortium of 31 partners in 17 countries. He also received a VENI talent grant worth €280,000 from the Dutch Research Council to investigate data quality in artificial intelligence using social science methods. He has published in international journals such as New Media & Society, Journalism, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Political Communication and AI & Society. He is also co-lead theme for The Digital Society in the SSH-Breed programme.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Associate professor | Department of Media and Communication
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Work
- Joep Hofhuis, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves, Pytrik Schafraad & Biyao Wu (2024) - Examining strategic diversity communication on social media using supervised machine learning: Development, validation and future research directions - Public Relations Review, 50 (1) - doi: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2024.102431
- Magdalena Wojcieszak, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg, Sjifra de Leeuw, João Gonçalves, Sam Davidson & Alexandre Gonçalves (2024) - Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries - Political Communication, 41 (1), 129-151 - doi: 10.1080/10584609.2023.2238641 - [link]
- Tessa Oomen, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves & Anouk Mols (2024) - Rage Against the AI? Understanding Contextuality of Algorithm Aversion and Appreciation - International Journal of Communication, 18, 609-633
- M. A. Palacios Barea, D. Boeren & J. F. Ferreira Goncalves (2023) - At the intersection of humanity and technology: a technofeminist intersectional critical discourse analysis of gender and race biases in the natural language processing model GPT-3 - AI and Society - doi: 10.1007/s00146-023-01804-z - [link]
- João Gonçalves & Ina Weber (2023) - Algorithmic moderation: Contexts, perceptions, and misconceptions - doi: 10.4337/9781803928562.00055 - [link]
- Gina M. Masullo, Claudia Wilhelm, Taeyoung Lee, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves, Martin J Riedl & Natalie J Stroud (2022) - Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States - New Media & Society, 1-24 - doi: 10.1177/14614448221135860
- Magdalena Wojcieszak, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves & Brian Weeks (2022) - Avenues to News and Diverse News Exposure Online: Comparing Direct Navigation, Social Media, News Aggregators, Search Queries, and Article Hyperlinks - International Journal of Press/Politics, 27 (4), 860-886 - doi: 10.1177/19401612211009160 - [link]
- Jane Cronin, João Fernando Ferreira Gonçalves, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg & Ericka Menchen-Trevino (2022) - The (null) over-time effects of exposure to local news websites: Evidence from trace data - Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 20 (4), 1-15 - doi: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2123878 - [link]
- Jorge Pereira Campos, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves & Jason Pridmore (2022) - Data Donation as e-Participation: How Citizens Construct the Risks of Donating Personal Data to Smart Cities
- Jorge Pereira Campos, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves & Jason Pridmore (2022) - Sensitive sensors: exploring social identity as a method to improve communication of engineering innovation
- Jorge Pereira Campos, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves & Jason Pridmore (2022) - Promoting Reflexivity Amongst Smart City Intermediaries: A Speculative Approach
- João Gonçalves, Ina Weber, Gina M. Masullo, Marisa Torres da Silva & Joep Hofhuis (2021) - Common sense or censorship:: How algorithmic moderators and message type influence perceptions of online content deletion - New Media and Society, 1-23 - doi: 10.1177/14614448211032310 - [link]
- Magdalena Wojcieszak, Arti Thakur, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves, Andreu Casas, Ericka Menchen-Trevino & Miriam Boon (2021) - Can AI Enhance People's Support for Online Moderation and Their Openness to Dissimilar Political Views? - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 26 (4), 223-243 - doi: 10.1093/jcmc/zmab006
- Jorge Pereira Campos, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves & Jason Pridmore (2021) - Data Donation as e-Participation: How Citizens Construct the Risks of Donating Personal Data to Smart Cities
- T Lee, C Wilhelm, GM Masullo, MJ Riedl, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves & NJ Stroud (2021) - How to Signal Trust in a Google Search - [link]
- Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves, M Silva & S Pereira (2020) - How to report on elections? The effects of game, issue and negative coverage on reader engagement and incivility. - Journalism, 1-19 - doi: 10.1177/1464884920958367 - [link]
- Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves, C Navio & P Moura (2020) - The occidental otaku: Portuguese audience motivations for viewing anime - Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 27 (1), 247-265 - doi: 10.1177/1354856520923966 - [link]
- GM Masullo, I Weber, A Laban, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves, M Torres da Silva & Joep Hofhuis (2020) - International Perspectives on What’s Considered Hateful or Profane Online - [link]
- Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves (2018) - Aggression in news comments: how context and article topic shape user-generated content - Journal of Applied Communication Research, 46 (5), 604-620 - doi: 10.1080/00909882.2018.1529419 - [link]
