Fernanda R. Rosa

Fernanda R. Rosa, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. She is currently working on her second book project whose narrative builds a bridge between technical debates on internet interconnection infrastructure and social justice to examine internet governance and design from the standpoint of the global South. Using an original method defined as code ethnography, and a transdisciplinary lens founded on science and technologies studies, decolonial and feminist studies, the book sheds light on the information circulation infrastructure of the internet with a design justice and policy approach. It situates the reader in indigenous and Latin American contexts to problematize the inequalities in the access to internet infrastructure and the values embedded in information circulation infrastructure of the internet. Brazil, Germany, Mexico, and Tseltal and Zapoteco sovereign territories are the fieldwork sites of this study.

Dr. Rosa’s research has received several accolades, including an Honorable Mention for the Association of Internet Researchers' Best Dissertation Award.

Before coming to Virginia Tech, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, affiliated with CARGC (Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from American University, in Washington DC., a Masters in Public Policy and Management from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), and a BA in Social Sciences from Universidade de São Paulo (USP). 

Dr. Rosa is the co-author of Mobile Learning in Brazil (Zinnerama, 2015) on technology and education issues.

She also speaks Portuguese and Spanish.