Fernanda Odilla
Biographic Data
| ID | 316641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fernanda Odilla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fernanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Odilla |
| SIGNATURE | ODILLA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2229-986X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Boom-and-Burst: Linking Online and Offline Elements of Right-Wing 'Patriotic' Camps in Brazil
This article examines social media's role in the 'online-offline nexus,' focusing on how digital interactions translate into sustained, large-scale, right-wing protests. Using Brazil as a case study, the research combines document analysis with non-participant observation in open right-wing Telegram groups and participant observation at the largest of Brazil's 100 protest camps. At this camp in Brasília, supporters of former president Jair Bolson…
The Digitalisation of Anti-Corruption in Brazil: Scandals, Reforms, and Innovation
This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil. Brazil, with its long history of scandals and abundant empirical data on digital media usage, serves as a perfect case study to trace the development of bottom-up and top-down digital anti-corruption technologies and their main features. This book highlights the connections between anti-corruption r…
Innovative but feeble: Civil society and political financing accountability in Uruguay
This article examines the impact of civic action on enhancing accountability and combating corruption in political financing, focusing on two civil society initiatives in Uruguay. The initiatives aimed to digitize and map information on funding received by political parties and politicians in the 2009 and 2014 elections, presenting their findings through interactive online platforms. The paper engages theoretically with the literature on the dime…
Citizens and Their Bots That Sniff Corruption: Using Digital Technology to Monitor and Expose Politicians Who Misuse Public Money
This article explores the advantages and constraints affecting anti-corruption grassroots initiatives that employ the "naming and shaming" strategy. It questions why activists choose such a confrontational approach while examining the cases of two Brazilian anti-corruption bottom-up initiatives. Both fight corruption by deploying bots to assist in auditing congressional members' expenses, and then use social media to expose their suspicious findi…
Bots against corruption: Exploring the benefits and limitations of AI-based anti-corruption technology
Countries have been developing and deploying anti-corruption tools based on artificial intelligence with hopes of them having positive capabilities. Yet, we still lack empirical analyses of these automated systems designed to identify and curb corruption. Hence, this article explores novel data on 31 bottom-up and top-down initiatives in Brazil, presented as a case study. Methodologically, it uses a qualitative analysis and draws on secondary dat…
Unveiling the layers of data activism: The organising of civic innovation to fight corruption in Brazil
Developed by tech-savvy citizens, Rosie is a bot that autonomously checks the public spending of elected representatives of the Brazilian Lower Chamber and uses Twitter to engage peoplein discussing suspicious findings. Rosie is the most visible face of Operação Serenata de Amor (Operation Love Serenade), a data-enabled activism initiative that revolves around the creation, use and dissemination of open data to hold politicians accountable and em…
Oversee and Punish: Understanding the Fight Against Corruption Involving Government Workers in Brazil
This exploratory study leverages a major dataset of official penalties against Brazilian bureaucrats enforced between January 2003 and November 2014, when 5,005 expulsive sanctions were enforced, 68.5% of which concerned acts of corruption. The analysis and discussion also integrate qualitative data gathered through 24 semi-structured interviews with civil servants who were integrity enforcers. Despite the rapid increase in the number of penaltie…
Unveiling the layers of data activism: The organising of civic innovation to fight corruption in Brazil
Developed by tech-savvy citizens, Rosie is a bot that autonomously checks the public spending of elected representatives of the Brazilian Lower Chamber and uses Twitter to engage peoplein discussing suspicious findings. Rosie is the most visible face of Operação Serenata de Amor (Operation Love Serenade), a data-enabled activism initiative that revolves around the creation, use and dissemination of open data to hold politicians accountable and em…
Boom-and-Burst: Linking Online and Offline Elements of Right-Wing 'Patriotic' Camps in Brazil
This article examines social media's role in the 'online-offline nexus,' focusing on how digital interactions translate into sustained, large-scale, right-wing protests. Using Brazil as a case study, the research combines document analysis with non-participant observation in open right-wing Telegram groups and participant observation at the largest of Brazil's 100 protest camps. At this camp in Brasília, supporters of former president Jair Bolson…
Oversee and Punish: Understanding the Fight Against Corruption Involving Government Workers in Brazil
This exploratory study leverages a major dataset of official penalties against Brazilian bureaucrats enforced between January 2003 and November 2014, when 5,005 expulsive sanctions were enforced, 68.5% of which concerned acts of corruption. The analysis and discussion also integrate qualitative data gathered through 24 semi-structured interviews with civil servants who were integrity enforcers. Despite the rapid increase in the number of penaltie…
Bots against corruption: Exploring the benefits and limitations of AI-based anti-corruption technology
Countries have been developing and deploying anti-corruption tools based on artificial intelligence with hopes of them having positive capabilities. Yet, we still lack empirical analyses of these automated systems designed to identify and curb corruption. Hence, this article explores novel data on 31 bottom-up and top-down initiatives in Brazil, presented as a case study. Methodologically, it uses a qualitative analysis and draws on secondary dat…
Unveiling the layers of data activism: The organising of civic innovation to fight corruption in Brazil
Developed by tech-savvy citizens, Rosie is a bot that autonomously checks the public spending of elected representatives of the Brazilian Lower Chamber and uses Twitter to engage peoplein discussing suspicious findings. Rosie is the most visible face of Operação Serenata de Amor (Operation Love Serenade), a data-enabled activism initiative that revolves around the creation, use and dissemination of open data to hold politicians accountable and em…
The Digitalisation of Anti-Corruption in Brazil: Scandals, Reforms, and Innovation
This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil. Brazil, with its long history of scandals and abundant empirical data on digital media usage, serves as a perfect case study to trace the development of bottom-up and top-down digital anti-corruption technologies and their main features. This book highlights the connections between anti-corruption r…
Innovative but feeble: Civil society and political financing accountability in Uruguay
This article examines the impact of civic action on enhancing accountability and combating corruption in political financing, focusing on two civil society initiatives in Uruguay. The initiatives aimed to digitize and map information on funding received by political parties and politicians in the 2009 and 2014 elections, presenting their findings through interactive online platforms. The paper engages theoretically with the literature on the dime…
Citizens and Their Bots That Sniff Corruption: Using Digital Technology to Monitor and Expose Politicians Who Misuse Public Money
This article explores the advantages and constraints affecting anti-corruption grassroots initiatives that employ the "naming and shaming" strategy. It questions why activists choose such a confrontational approach while examining the cases of two Brazilian anti-corruption bottom-up initiatives. Both fight corruption by deploying bots to assist in auditing congressional members' expenses, and then use social media to expose their suspicious findi…
Boom-and-Burst: Linking Online and Offline Elements of Right-Wing 'Patriotic' Camps in Brazil
This article examines social media's role in the 'online-offline nexus,' focusing on how digital interactions translate into sustained, large-scale, right-wing protests. Using Brazil as a case study, the research combines document analysis with non-participant observation in open right-wing Telegram groups and participant observation at the largest of Brazil's 100 protest camps. At this camp in Brasília, supporters of former president Jair Bolson…
Political science (7 works) · Language change (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Accountability (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · E-Government and Public Services (3 works) · Civil society (2 works)