Lourenço Silva Ferreira
Biographic Data
| ID | 6887182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lourenço Silva Ferreira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lourenço Silva |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferreira |
| SIGNATURE | FERREIRA L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8369-0998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
You are your numbers: Visibility fetishism and social value in the age of social media
Visibility has become a central organizing principle of social life on digital platforms, where recognition is increasingly expressed through quantifiable metrics such as likes, shares, and follower counts. Existing research has examined self-branding and the attention economy, yet it tends to treat attention-based engagement as an indicator of popularity or success rather than as a form of value in itself. This article asks: how does the transfo…
Populism in Algorithmic Publics: Reassessing the Spiral of Silence Under AI-Driven Visibility
This article offers a critical theoretical reassessment of how political expression, dissent, and silence are structured within algorithmically mediated publics.Moving beyond the assumption of digital platforms as neutral arenas of participation, the article examines how AI-driven visibility infrastructures and platform-specific interactional cultures reshape the conditions under which opinions become visible or legitimate to express, as well as …
Algorithmic publicity: Rethinking the conditions of visibility in the public sphere
The article develops the concept of algorithmic publicity to theorize the pre-discursive structuring of visibility in digital environments. It argues that algorithmic infrastructures shape the conditions under which content becomes publicly accessible, relocating the dynamics of communicative rationality and systemic coordination to the infrastructural level. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas, the argument situates these developments within the trajecto…
Can a leader be our neighbor? Political authority and mediated intimacy in the algorithmic age
This article examines the contemporary transformation of political leadership in European democracies, arguing that democratic legitimacy is being reconfigured under conditions of algorithmic visibility. Drawing on a Sennettian framework and based on a comparative analysis of Instagram posts by Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, and Robert Fico (January–February 2026), the study develops the concept of private relatability – the systematic displace…
The Polarization Paradox: Social Media, Young Voters, and the Challenges to the Open Society
The ideal of the open society, grounded in rational deliberation and pluralism, faces growing challenges in the digital age. This study examines how affective polarization—characterized by emotional hostility and antagonism across political identities—and populist sentiments among young Portuguese voters (ages 18–21) reshape democratic discourse, with a focus on the role of social media platforms. Based on a sample of 130 first-time voters in the…
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The Polarization Paradox: Social Media, Young Voters, and the Challenges to the Open Society
The ideal of the open society, grounded in rational deliberation and pluralism, faces growing challenges in the digital age. This study examines how affective polarization—characterized by emotional hostility and antagonism across political identities—and populist sentiments among young Portuguese voters (ages 18–21) reshape democratic discourse, with a focus on the role of social media platforms. Based on a sample of 130 first-time voters in the…
You are your numbers: Visibility fetishism and social value in the age of social media
Visibility has become a central organizing principle of social life on digital platforms, where recognition is increasingly expressed through quantifiable metrics such as likes, shares, and follower counts. Existing research has examined self-branding and the attention economy, yet it tends to treat attention-based engagement as an indicator of popularity or success rather than as a form of value in itself. This article asks: how does the transfo…
Populism in Algorithmic Publics: Reassessing the Spiral of Silence Under AI-Driven Visibility
This article offers a critical theoretical reassessment of how political expression, dissent, and silence are structured within algorithmically mediated publics.Moving beyond the assumption of digital platforms as neutral arenas of participation, the article examines how AI-driven visibility infrastructures and platform-specific interactional cultures reshape the conditions under which opinions become visible or legitimate to express, as well as …
Algorithmic publicity: Rethinking the conditions of visibility in the public sphere
The article develops the concept of algorithmic publicity to theorize the pre-discursive structuring of visibility in digital environments. It argues that algorithmic infrastructures shape the conditions under which content becomes publicly accessible, relocating the dynamics of communicative rationality and systemic coordination to the infrastructural level. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas, the argument situates these developments within the trajecto…
Can a leader be our neighbor? Political authority and mediated intimacy in the algorithmic age
This article examines the contemporary transformation of political leadership in European democracies, arguing that democratic legitimacy is being reconfigured under conditions of algorithmic visibility. Drawing on a Sennettian framework and based on a comparative analysis of Instagram posts by Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, and Robert Fico (January–February 2026), the study develops the concept of private relatability – the systematic displace…
Visibility (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Digital Education and Society (2 works) · Digital Media and Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (2 works) · Social media (2 works) · Social Media and Politics (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Argumentation theory (1 works)