Experience

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication - FCSH

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  2021 (from March till September) - Currently teaching a Master level course on Media and Society, whose syllabus I created. My students and I have been discussing in class (via Zoom) how we can think about media and ICT through a decolonial and intersectional perspective.2020/2021 (from September till February)- I taught a Ph.D. seminar, whose syllabus I created, on theories related to Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Media, with a focus on societal issues.



Instituto Superior Técnico

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Departmet of Informatics Engineering

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  2021 - I am currently co-teaching a BA level mandatory course on "Computing and Society" [related to ethics and ICT] to informatics engineering students. We use a number of case studies to critically engage students with the impact of emerging technologies on society [e.g., self-driving cars, gender and race inequalities in AI and automation systems].2019-2020- Co-supervision of graduate students- Co-teaching of Participatory Design - Interdisciplinary Research



Interactive Technologies Institute

• Portugal
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  - Transdisciplinary research at the intersection of Digital Media and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)



Público

• Portugal
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contributing Writer for the leading daily Portuguese newspaper 'Público'

  • Aug 2009 - Present

  - My profile page on Público online: https://www.publico.pt/autor/-claudia-silva- Production of several featured articles on national events, especially on performing arts (theater) and literature- Have interviewed Portuguese personalities such as Luis Miguel Cintra, São José Lapa, António Pinto Ribeiro, Ricardo Bak Gordon - Have interviewed European theater companies such as the German LIGNA, the Italian Katakló, or the French theater director Christine Laurent- Correspondence from Austin, Texas. I was one of the first journalists to explore Gabriel García Márquez' archive acquired by the University of Texas at Austin. Wrote two original and analytical pieces on the subject in Portuguese (see two samples below - in Portuguese). I have read two versions of Gabo's unpublished book, "En Agosto Nos Vemos."



Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Invited Assistant Professor

  • Mar 2020 - Sep 2020

  - Teaching a Master degree course about Media Literacy (Master in Applied Communication)- Class of 11 students- Distance Teaching during COVID-19 (Synchronous and asynchronous classes using a number of digital tools (Zoom, Facebook groups, e-learning platform Moodle), and social learning methods.



M-ITI

• Portugal
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Aug 2016 - Jul 2019

  - Assistance for Grant Proposal Writing - Academic Research on Digital Media and Human-Computer Interaction- Paper Writing- Organization of academic events (e.g., ICIDS 2017)- Ph.D. Student Advising - Participation in research projects (Beanstalk)



The University of Texas at Austin

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD student at UT Austin

  • Jan 2012 - May 2016



River City Youth Foundation

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Inclusion Lead Instructor

  • Jan 2015 - Apr 2016

  - Lead Instructor for TechComunidad digital inclusion program for Spanish and English speaking parents, including the teaching of cloud computing and Google Apps such as Google Drive (cloud storage), Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Contact or Google products (a chromebook). - Community Outreach in schools and events; Interviews with Spanish speaking only parents, supervision of application process and follow-up- Oral and Written translation from English into Spanish- Curriculum Planning support - Digital Inclusion Program Evaluation- Active member in the Google Fiber Campaign in the community of Dove Springs - Door to door Outreach; Able to collect sign-ups and close the lowest-income fiber hood in the area through door-to-door outreach. - Ethnography, participant observation, and interviews (for research purposes)



Folha de S.Paulo

• Brazil
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Freelance Writer for the leading national Brazilian newspaper 'Folha de São Paulo'

  • 2015 - 2015



Migalhas Project - Cultural Information on the table

• Content Producer and User-generated Content Editor for 'Migalhas' magazine

  • Nov 2009 - Aug 2011

  - Co-participation in the deployment of the project- Conceptualization and editing of the user-generated section of the magazine- Newsgathering, interviews, and writing about arts



a par magazine

• Intern Journalist at 'a par' regional magazine

  • Jan 2004 - May 2005

  - Newsgathering, interviews, and writing about regional and local artists (see samples below)- Writing of stories based on local history about my hometown - Photography



PUC Minas

• Brazil
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Press Intern at PUC Minas Arcos

  • Aug 2003 - Jun 2004

  - Newsletter writing - Coverage of Academic Fieldtrips to national companies- Coverage of campus events - Photography - PR assistance



Laboratory Newspaper Portal

• Journalism Intern at campus newspaper 'PORTAL' - PUC Minas Arcos

  • Jan 2002 - Dec 2002

  - Coverage of local events - Interviews and writing - Photography