Projects

This research examines AI policy and regulation across Canada, the United States, and Brazil. I am investigating how these countries structure public consultation processes, legislative debates, and stakeholder engagement in AI governance. Using a mixed-methods approach that combines policy document analysis, discourse analysis, and stakeholder mapping, my objective is to identify key policy actors and analyze their lobbying strategies, coalition-building efforts, and framing techniques.

While all three countries share concerns about algorithmic bias, privacy protection, and democratic accountability, they have distinct national approaches shaped by different political cultures: Canada emphasizes human rights and a risk management approach, the US focuses on technological leadership and national security, and Brazil prioritizes digital inclusion and data sovereignty.

This research is conducted in partnership with Machine Agencies and The Tech Lobby.

NERVE is an application that performs Named Entity Recognition (NER), allowing users new to Linked Open Data (LOD) to find and match entities in a document. NERVE suggests relevant Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for entities, so users can match entities to an authority in order to turn it into LOD.

NERVE is part of the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS Project) and is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

LEAF-Writer is an in-browser text markup editor and Web Annotation tool provided as part of the Linked Editing Academic Framework (LEAF) tool suite. LEAF-Writer has been designed to provide an accessible and easy-to-use on-ramp to text encoding for pedagogical and research purposes. It furthers the dissemination, adoption, and engaged use of the TEI Guidelines, especially for those who lack local infrastructure or technical support.

LEAF-Writer is developed through a partnership among research institutions in Canada, the US, and the UK, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

CWRC-Writer

LEAF-Writer was built upon a previous iteration of CWRC-Writer, the XML & RDF online editor of the Canadian Women Research Collaboratory (CWRC).

This research acknowledges that significant knowledge about equitable theatre education already exists within marginalized communities but has been systematically undervalued and under-resourced. As a DH Postdoctoral Fellow at Staging Better Futures/Mettre en scène de meilleurs avenirs (SBF/MSMA), I worked on the design and implementation of a multilingual, accessible digital archive platform that incorporates decolonization, anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA) values into its technical governance. This platform prioritizes data sovereignty, enabling communities to organize their cultural materials using their own taxonomies and knowledge frameworks, rather than relying on Western-centric archival practices.

Working in partnership with the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC), my objectives are to challenge dominant archival infrastructures, create new frameworks for community knowledge sovereignty, and develop a multimedia repository of pedagogical resources that focuses on community-driven practices to produce new forms of knowledge and new ways of knowing.

Drawing on Digital Methods, the Consultation Machine is a “prototype” for a public workshop to engage in and debate AI futures. Our efforts devolved from sincere attempts to use strategic foresight to shape AI policy, to AI-assisted future-making, and finally to the consultation machine. Our contribution documents these three different prototypes to explain the evolution of their design, shaped by participatory methods, and to reflect on the results.

We contribute to a growing body of literature examining how AI influences democratic policy-making in technoscientific capitalist systems, where democracy may yet become just another ‘problem’ to be streamlined and automated by algorithmic solutions. We offer both critical reflections on the challenges of designing workshops to democratize AI futures and a template for a novel workshop format, the Consultation Machine, which we hope will inspire imitators and new collective imaginations.

MUTEK

This project was exhibited as an interactive installation at the 2024 MUTEK Forum in Montréal.

Shipwreck Montreal

A sci-fi version of this project was exhibited as an intervention and interactive installation at the 2025 Shipwreck exhibition in Montréal.

Over the past decade, the widespread investment in digital infrastructure and the extensive digitization of individual behaviour have provided the basis for the rapid development of machinelearning techniques and Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI datafy our body and our identity, producing live databases full of calculated linkages between humans and nonhumans. It creates a new cartography of biopower that sometimes produces technologies, but always produces subjects. This research examines the political economy of subjectivation in the “making of” machine-learning algorithms and AI by closely examining the relations of power, affect, and subjectivation on Kaggle, the world’s largest data science community. Conceived as a gamified platform for crowdsourced machine-learning challenges, Kaggle is a networked public where users are under constant pressure to produce new and improved algorithms.

This research first engages with Kaggle as a company and platform, offering a narrative of its history and a detailed description of how it works. Combining discourse analysis, software studies, and digital methods, this research aims to understand how code, data, digital infrastructures, crowdsourced labour, and political-economic interests are mobilized to create instruments of control that shape, modulate, and mediate individual behaviour. This phenomenon, which I call modes of automatic subjectivation, points toward the possibility of using subjective and impersonal materials to reorganize life in its broadest sense according to a specific system of power and privileges involving gender, race, sexuality, and social class.

This dissertation argues that these modes of subjectivation are designed to control the “production of possibilities” and to reinforce specific types of socioeconomic relations, which, in turn, reproduce current conditions of existence. Furthermore, this research argues that the data science community has a notable compulsion toward cost reduction, indifference toward human life, an obsession with controlling populations and individual bodies, and a desire to produce a predictable future for economic gain. Ultimately, this research identifies algorithmic media based on AI Technology as a core asset in the attention economy and as a source of power that can be used as an interface to prescribe individual behaviour.

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communication Studies.

What videos does YouTube recommend when searching for party leaders during elections? This study sought to investigate how the YouTube platform operates, focusing on algorithmic activity and the strategies employed by both human and automated (robot) actors within federal and regional elections. The aim was to understand the impact of this system of mediation on society and to demystify preconceptions about ideologically neutral technologies in highly disputed political events. The research focuses on three case studies: 1) the 2018 Ontario (Canada) election, 2) the 2018 Quebec (Canada) election, and 3) the 2018 Brazilian Federal Election. The data collection was carried out during the 2018 campaign periods in Ontario (May and June), Quebec (August and September), and Brazil (August and October).

The data collection was carried out using a Python script thatautomates YouTube search operations based on specified keywords (e.g., candidate names), allowing us to gather video-related data and the relative ranking position displayed to the user. Once the keywords were defined, the tool retrieved links for the top four results for each keyword and then examined the recommendation section. This process was repeated four times, each time collecting recommended videos to simulate a user interacting with algorithmic suggestions.

The rankflow allows analysis of the evolution of each video in the rank, identifying trends and observing what has been recommended. This might give us some insights into how the YouTube ranking system works, which videos are most prominent on specific topics, and what narrative this ranking brings to the political debate in Canada.

YouTube Recommendation Scraper

To make the data collection process easier and more efficient, we designed a web application with a user-friendly UI that allows other researchers to collect data from YouTube's recommendation system. Due to funding restrictions, the project was paused, but the code is available on GitHub.

Juno Chatbot & Storytelling is a research and development project on the use of chatbots for audiovisual storytelling. The project involves operationalizing a device for creating conversational agents (chatbots) within audiovisual stories. Through the proposed device, users can develop a conversational agent, thereby learning about automatic natural language processing techniques, story creation, and tools for creating conversational agents.

Funded by the Quebec Government and developed in partnership with the Faculty of Education at Université de Montréal and Dawson College, this project is based on innovative approaches in education to contribute to the development of a technological and scientific culture among young people and to include society in the debates around the premises and choices concerning the field of AI. Understanding the development of chatbots will better equip young people to comprehend, engage in, and contribute to AI-related decision-making.

On Chance

Juno chatbot is a spinoff of the On Chance project by Julia Salles. Julia explores how randomness changes your life. From the uncertainty about the weather to the choices we make at the supermarket, chance is constantly affecting our lives. But if we had more data and developed more precise models and algorithms, could we predict and control future events? On Chance is a documentary chatbot exploring the philosophy and science of randomness. Have a chat about how randomness affects our lives and explore the notion of chance through conversations, movie scenes, archive material and original interviews.

On Chance is part of a research-creation thesis in communication studies, exploring how chatbots can be used as interactive tools for conversational documentary storytelling. A chatbot is a human-computer interaction interface that uses artificial intelligence (AI), especially in natural language processing. In On Chance, the chatbot is an interactive tool to explore the archive material and original content.

This research project questions how discourses and practices of modernity and development have led to the physical transformations of the Saint-Pierre River, and how these relate to the different material practices, representations, and symbolic nature of the river.

Using historical-geographical materialist methodologies, an ethnographic inquiry into human, non-human, and infrastructure actors, and counter-mapping, we seek to develop a recursive (re)shaping of the water infrastructure that has absorbed and exhausted the Saint-Pierre River. Such methodologies allowed us to identify how infrastructure was used to colonize and lay claim to the area, as well as illustrate alternatives to the incremental destruction of sustaining habitats. Through the creation of a counter map and an ethnography of the river and water infrastructure, we will contest the homogenization of the space as represented in zoning regulations, land-use maps, and property regimes, offering new means of expressing hydro-social relationships in place.

Florence, a choreographer and dance professor in her late fifties, tracked her activity for one week using a Fitbit Charge HR watch. Throughout this period, she took notes on her experience and the thoughts that emerged from it in a journal. After the week of tracking, she created and performed a choreography inspired by this lived experience. The data collected by the self-tracking device were then used to create a soundtrack and produce visual effects. These two “re-workings” of the Fitbit data were integrated into an edited video and used to make this web-based interactive platform. This research and creation project aimed to explore how data and the lived experience of self-tracking could be used to generate subversive forms of data materialization through choreography, sound, and visuals. We aimed to critique injunctions related to aging bodies and the normativity of “successful aging.”

The creative process also became the hub for technical and theoretical explorations on the bodies produced through the Fitbit device and related activities (mediatized bodies, regulated bodies, standardized bodies, lived bodies, etc.) as well as on what constitutes “data.” We conceive the data as being culturally mediated. The mediation processes that participate in data production inform the ways in which it is produced, treated, and rendered effective. Our critical approach aimed to “re-work” the “bio” metric bodies produced by Fitbit, to deconstruct the narratives and temporalities embedded in and generated by their production.

The field of Artificial Intelligence regularly establishes a competitive relationship between humans and machines, which leads to the avoidance of mistakes. This research considers the creation of a collaborative and “mistake-friendly” drawing game for humans and machines. The game PICT.IO is inspired by the popular game Pictionary, a widely played drawing game in which one person receives a written message and must convey it to their team using drawings.

Using Digital Methods and hacking techniques, we draw on and build upon Google’s Quick, Draw!, which uses machine learning to guess what players are drawing. In PICT.IO, each team consists of two humans and one machine, collaborating and communicating with limited resources, using drawings or speech to solve visual challenges.

The research indicates that allowing for more space for AI mistakes is a crucial condition for the emergence of human-machine collaboration and an engaging, trustworthy, and enjoyable gameplay experience. The game is played by two teams. Each team is composed of two humans and one machine. The goal of the game is to make the team's pawn be the first to go all the way through the board’s path.

The University of Alberta's Office of the Vice President (Research) and the Kule Institute for Advanced Study are collaborating to develop a picture of the richness and variety of social sciences, humanities and fine arts (SSHA) research at the University of Alberta. To that end, we developed a digital Research Map (in beta) based on the websites of all SSHA departments and their full-time faculty members. The tool maps faculty members and their research keywords, as well as the connections between them, and includes a web-based search interface with network data visualization. We hope this will help us identify new interdisciplinary connections to support the building of research capacity and help research administrators appreciate the heterogeneous network of research undertaken at the University of Alberta.

I developed a prototype for an interactive interface visualization of on-campus antiracism protests. The data was collected by Alex Hanna and Ellen Berrey (University of Toronto) using a machine learning algorithm developed for this task. The data source is a collection of student association-led and university-focused newspapers. The prototype visualization has a subset of the dataset with about 200 records of protests in the USA and Canada between 2012 and 2016.

Video games based on historic wars have tended to focus on depictions of the combat and violence experienced by soldiers. This has led to a climate where non-combat casualties have been ignored and marginalized within the traditional narrative framework of war games. As a result, both women and children have been largely underrepresented in war games despite the fact that they typically represent the majority of casualties. One specific example of this phenomenon can be found in Pacific War (1941-1945) games that ignore the victims of bombings, especially the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The hibakusha (bomb affected persons) of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been ignored in the representation of the war, especially in North America. The goal of this project is to create an educational war game that focuses on the experiences of hibakusha after the bombing of Nagasaki in order to better incorporate their stories into North American understandings of the atomic bombs.

I had the opportunity to participate as a programmer in the development of this short -story video game. This work was a collaboration with Ryan Scheiding, Marilyn Sugiarto, Samia Pedraça, and Mimi Okabe. The project was presented and previewed at the Canadian Games Studies Association (CGSA) 2017 conference in Toronto, Canada.

Inspired by the acquisition of two Solari split-flap information displays from Mirabel Airport by Matt Soar, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University, the Montréal Signs Project put together the installation YMX: Migration, Land, and Loss after Mirabel by Cheryl Sim. Sim’s exhibition speaks to the parallel stories of displacement and forced migration: those dispossessed of their land to build the airport and the thousands of people who arrived at Mirabel escaping war, disaster, or economic adversity.

I had the opportunity to work with Matt Soar and Cheryl Sim on this project, helping them to visualize the immigration data provided by the Canadian Government. Some of the visualizations were present in the exhibition.

The exhibition took place at the Galerie POPOP (Belgo Building) in Montreal from March 29 to April 13, 2017.

Visualization of a collection of readings used in the undergraduate program between 2014 and 2016. The department is updating the undergraduate curriculum; understanding what the faculty is using for lectures is one of the guidelines for the future of this program at Concordia.

This project proposes a synesthetic experiment in which data collected by the city will be translated into human sensory input. It uses a mobile application to retrieve air-quality data in Montreal and produce data-driven audio and visual feedback.

Conventionally, civic engagement takes the form of deliberative and decision-making processes, such as elections, referendums, and public consultations. Yet, it should not be reduced to the single act of voting, recognized as the “democratic duty.” Instead, debates about collective issues and public affairs occur daily on the streets, in the workplace, at home, and, more recently, through digital social media.

Drawing on computational methods used in large-scale controversy analysis, this project explored the dynamics of social media networks and their impacts on society, which becomes crucial to understanding civic engagement in contemporary social and political movements. Through a visual network and semantic analysis, we propose mapping and investigating how digital social media platforms, particularly Twitter, have been utilized not only to disseminate information about the Vancouver Transit Referendum but also to encourage civic engagement on mobility and public transportation in a highly contentious and controversial environment.

Between January and May 2015, the Metro Vancouver area was immersed in a debate about public investments in transit for the next 30 years. The topic became controversial when the Mayor’s Council proposed increasing sales taxes to fund the project, and a referendum was called to decide whether to adopt these new revenue sources for Metro Vancouver transportation. From Feb 11 to March 11, we captured this conversation on Twitter to investigate how digital social media platforms have been used to broadcast information of public interest and promote civic engagement. This project maps, visualizes, and explores public opinion and social media interactions among people.

As an inherent human condition, mobility brings together communicative, technological, geographical, economic, cultural, and social forces that transform the surrounding space. In fact, space becomes socially meaningful only through human agency and activities, such as walking and the desire to move in one direction or another. As we walk, we always leave traces behind, which can be both immaterial, such as nostalgia or desire, and concrete, such as the built environment and marks on the sand.

All these moments and traces are transitory (space) and temporary (time), which makes it difficult to understand and analyze their nature and rules. Yet, if we follow our trails, we can understand our interactions with the surrounding environment and with other people; we can even grasp the patterns and rules that govern our movements.

Human Spatial Movement is an interactive visualization that enables you to discover your mobility pattern through time and space. It shows all your Moves data on a map, allowing you to filter by date and transportation type, and encode information by transportation type and duration. You can uncover your digital traces to learn about your mobility preferences in everyday life.

This project was developed for my course in Knowledge Visualization and Communication in the SIAT Ph.D. program.

We have developed a prototype for a cooperative game based on the work of DH practitioners, modelling the experience of researching and publishing in a multi-disciplinary academic environment. In The DH Experience, players collaborate to collect data from around the world, conduct research, and complete their projects appropriately to succeed, competing against time and the system inherent to the game.

Digital media has become the central nervous system of contemporary society, and the recent popularization of mobile media has intensified the dynamic process of mediation and communication in post-modern society to the point of a paradigm change: from the monopoly of mass media culture to decentralized transmissions in a post-mass media era. These technologies shift the place of mediation, affecting how society explores, perceives, and interacts with physical space. As a result, mobile media become an important interface in the production of social space: a new type of hybrid space, composed of digital layers that overlap the physical environment, is produced.

Drawing on sociological approaches and media studies theories, this research aimed to understand how mobile technology, its social relations, and the relationship with the material and symbolic world in contemporary society, is reforming mass media and redefining our perception and experience in everyday urban life, and reinforcing the importance of space and place in the development of sociability and the construction of people’s identity.

Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Humanities Computing.

Visual Workflow

A prototype tool to study different ways to manage and visualize documents in an editorial workflow. Developed in collaboration with INKE, where I worked as an interface designer and programmer.

Tangible Interface

At CSDH (Canadian Society for Digital Humanities) 2013 in Victoria, Canada, Tianyi Li presented the second version of your prototype on Workflows. This time, we move toward touchscreens, one of the future directions defined in the project last year. The intention was to map mouse clicks to touches and gestures. Watch this video and check how it works:

Wrkflux: Generalized Workflow

Following our work on the visual interactive workflow, our current phase of the project focused on creating and customizing workflows. While in the previous version we used a pre-defined workflow structure, the new version, which we called Wrkflux, allows users to create and design their own workflows. By adding this functionality, we are looking for other ways workflows can be used, such as management processes, editorial processes, personal organization, mind mapping, and even board game prototypes.

From 2012 to 2014, I collaborated with Mihaela Ilovan and Jenniffer Windsor, under the supervision of Geoffrey Rockwell and Stan Ruecker, to develop a prototype tool to visualize citations in the Humanities: CiteLens. The tool is a proof-of-concept that points to the complexity of citation in the Humanities. Unlike the hard sciences, where academic research most often builds on previous research in small increments, in the Humanities and parts of the Social Sciences, the use of sources can vary in degree, mode, and depth. CiteLens attempts to expose this complexity and provide insights into how humanist scholars use citations in their work.

In 2012, I developed the Multi-touch Variorum (MtV), a prototype interface for social reading of complex literary works, such as Shakespeare’s variorum editions. The interface was designed for use on a multi-touch table that can accommodate up to four researchers standing around its edges, allowing them to tap, flick, and rotate through different editions of texts using natural gestures. The development process required a complete rethink of digital interface design. The initial version unconsciously followed desktop conventions with fixed orientations and static panels. Early tests revealed the need for a fundamental redesign to support collaborative interaction from different sides of the device.

Creating a genuinely “social” reading interface proved more challenging than simply enlarging a touchscreen. We had to solve practical problems, such as making reading panels movable and rotatable for each user, while implementing a lock function to distinguish between gestures meant to move panels and interact with text. Furthermore, we grappled with defining what “social” means in a humanities context, ultimately developing two distinct interface approaches: a “Lazy Susan” design with a central rotating ring of shared editions that encourages conversation around a shared digital workspace.

This project visualize and interpret the shape of the city’s map from a different perspective. Shaping the City deconstructs the city map, detaching the blocks from their original geo-location and reorganizing them according to whatever other information they carry: size, community, period, population density, income, number of trees, venues, terrain type, tweets, and so on. It is a form of counter-mapping in which other relevant data takes priority over geographical locations.

Shaping the City is a prototype tool for researchers interested in history, geography, and urban planning, designed to enable comparison across different datasets using the shapes of the city as the main structure. It is also a playful, curiosity-driven interactive visualization in which the user is invited to explore, discover, and learn more about how the city was planned and how it has been evolving.

A digital mobile city guide can help explore urban environments. Guia Vix is an iPhone app for Vitória (Brazil). The idea was to bridge the gap between the old print version and the new tourist behaviour. The app has information about the city, types of transportation, and a geolocation database of more than 200 venues (bars, restaurants, nightclubs) and points of interest (beaches, arts, museums). A detail page provides the main information for each venue, including phone numbers, addresses, map location, and website URL. The user can explore the surroundings using the “Nearby” feature, which geo-locates the user and shows points of interest within 1 km.

This project was built with the help of Samia Pedraça, Marina Machado, and Daigo Matsuoka. The app was available for one year as an experimental project. However, my choice to pursue a Master's degree abroad made it difficult to keep a very locally driven project up and running. We shut down the app at the end of 2012.

A proposal for an iPhone app with the primary objective of exploring historical places and events in Edmonton. With this app, people can walk through the urban environment using old maps, discovering and learning the city’s history.

The historical maps available in the user location will be overlaid on the current map. The points of interest will be shown on the screen based on the user-selected map, revealing the location's past. A slider control lets the users switch back to the present, giving them a grasp of what is nearby these days. By choosing a location, the app will show facts and pictures, where available. Using social networking, the user can see which of their friends visited that place in the past. The app also lets users share their location and historical information via Facebook and Twitter, comment, and take pictures using built-in tools. Discover the past to make a better future.

I founded a communication agency named Fluxo Art with some friends. I primarily worked as a graphic designer and web developer. Still, I was also involved in many aspects of a start-up company, from managerial decisions to the conceptualization of the material we produced. I have made several visual communication pieces for different media types, from logos and brand identity to editorial design, from flyers and banners to billboards, from websites to mobile apps, and from advertising material for print and web to entire election campaigns.

I taught a course on graphic design for newspapers and magazines between 2010 and 2011 as a volunteer professor in the Department of Social Communication at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. In the first term, Daniela Martins, professor of the Print Newspaper course at that time, and I led an initiative to create the first Primeira Mão digital edition for tablets. Primeira Mão is the course’s newspaper lab, printed since 1990. During 3 months, the students worked on the print and digital editions simultaneously. Their job was to write the stories and design the entire edition.

For the digital edition layout, we had to create two different versions to take advantage of the rotation features on tablets: portrait and landscape views. We used Adobe InDesign and the Digital Edition plug-in to design the pages for both print and digital editions. At that time, the digital edition was available only for iPad in beta.

The students had a chance to experiment with different ways of storytelling using features available in Adobe’s tools: video, sound, scrolling, slideshows, and Internet connectivity. We also collaborated with Daniela Zanetti, Assistant Professor for New Media at the time, to include her students' work in this edition. They created five ads using the same tool.

Unfortunately, by the end of the term, when the edition was almost finished, Adobe closed the beta tool, and we were not allowed to publicize Primeira Mão’s first digital edition. However, the students had the opportunity to work with this new tool and experiment with different forms of storytelling on tablets.

Twitter Versus Mode is my first attempt to connect Twitter and Flash. It is basically a tool that compares two keywords. Once the user hits “go”, the script accesses Twitter’s API to search the last 1,000 tweets that mention at least one of the two selected keywords. A colour-coded square represents each tweet. An animation that illustrates the flow of tweets reconstructs the timeline. The content of a tweet can be seen by hovering over a square on Twitter, showing the text and the user’s avatar. There is an option to reorder the tweets by keywords. Since Twitter closed its API and implemented strict access rules, this prototype stopped working. But you can still see some screenshots.

Vivemos num mundo interconectado, em que as informações fluem cada vez mais rapidamente. Com o surgimento da Internet, abriu-se um leque de possibilidades que antes sequer podiam ser imaginadas. As interações que ocorrem no ciberespaço não dependem do tempo nem das distâncias. As mais diferentes culturas integram-se como nunca. É possível comunicar-se com pessoas em várias partes do mundo, colher informações sobre qualquer assunto, trocar experiências e relacionar-se com pessoas de diferentes culturas. A construção das identidades, a memória e as relações de poder se estendem ao ciberespaço, que constitui um novo lugar de memória e também de inteligência coletiva, uma vez que há múltiplas possibilidades de acesso, percepção, reconstrução e emissão de mensagens e conteúdos. Devido a essas características, o ciberespaço se mostra o lugar ideal para receber o núcleo da Rede de Memória da Imprensa Capixaba (Rede MIC), tão importante para a constituição da identidade local, uma vez que o jornalismo influenciou e continua influenciando a construção das identidades. Como há certo esquecimento em relação à memória local, faz-se necessário resgatá-la e evidenciar a importância da imprensa na constituição da sociedade espírito-santense.

Trabalho de conclusão de curso realizado no curso de Jornalismo da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), em 2005, em parceria com Andressa Zanandrea.

English translation:We live in an interconnected world, where information flows increasingly quickly. With the Internet, many possibilities opened that could never have been imagined before. The interactions that take place in cyberspace do not depend on time or distance. Different cultures are integrating as they never have before. It is possible to communicate with people worldwide, obtain information on any subject, share experiences, and form relationships with people from different cultures. The construction of identities, memory, and power relationships extends to cyberspace, a new place for memory and collective intelligence offering multiple possibilities for access, perception, reconstruction, and message and content emission. By these characteristics, cyberspace stands as the ideal place for the core of the Capixaba’s Press Memory Net (Rede MIC), which is so important for the constitution of the local identity, as journalism has influenced and continues to influence the construction of identities. As there is a tendency to forget local memory, it is necessary to preserve it and show how the press was important in the constitution of Espírito-Santense society.