NetLab is a research laboratory of the School of Communication of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) dedicated to internet and social media studies. New technologies, metadata and algorithms influence every part of everyday life. We believe that it is necessary to bring together a multidisciplinary research effort to investigate how society has been building and adapting to these innovations.

Our work is to investigate how new technologies, metadata and algorithms influence the public sphere and multiple fields of society. For that, we seek to combine a research approach with traditional elements, contemporary innovations and interdisciplinary perspectives - a challenge that requires an integration between theoretical foundations, statistical tools and efficient algorithms.