LABHDUFBA

Digital Humanities Laboratory — Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brazil

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Researchers in the humanities, data, and digital technologies gathered in a space for intellectual exchange, academic research, and scientific production. Founded in 2018 in association with the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences (PPGCS) and the Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation (ICTI/UFBA), the lab is registered in CNPq's Directory of Research Groups and partners with national and international research institutions.

• Attacks on health information integrity — multi-platform ecosystems of health disinformation in Brazil, with a focus on vaccine hesitancy and declining vaccination coverage. In partnership with ISC/UFBA and PECS, funded by the Ministry of Health and CNPq. Project database: 78M+ Telegram messages, 1.2M+ WhatsApp messages, 641k+ YouTube videos.
• Digital data trace — the largest research collection of digital traces in Brazil for studying socio-technical dynamics on online platforms.
• Data mining for digital humanities — extraction algorithms for the web and digital social networks, with critical reflection on how digital tools shape humanities research.
• Disinformation and radicalization on Telegram — computational propaganda, coordinated influence operations, and hate speech, in partnership with InternetLab since 2021.
• Digital history — digitized documentary collections and new historiographical approaches to race, racism, and rights in the Americas, in collaboration with UNILAB.
• Computational archival science — archival data modeling, interoperability, access, and AI applied to archival collections.

• 900M+ YouTube videos shared on Telegram and WhatsApp
• 40k+ public Telegram channels and groups monitored continuously for 5+ years
• 30k+ public WhatsApp groups
• Real-time monitoring of thousands of public Instagram profiles
• 200+ active Discord servers under continuous tracking

All data are collected and maintained exclusively for scientific research purposes.

Research software, scraping and data-analysis tools, interactive maps, teaching materials, and documentation of the lab's research infrastructure.

• Website: https://labhdufba.github.io
• Email: labhdufba@gmail.com
• X/Twitter: @labhdufba
• Address: Largo de São Lázaro, 197 — Federação, Salvador/BA, Brazil, 40210-909 · School of Philosophy and Human Sciences (FFCH/UFBA), CIEDS building

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