A postdoctoral researcher at The Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT) – Lusófona University (Portugal), where she is part of the MeLCi Lab (Media Literacy and Civic Cultures Lab). She is an associate researcher at UNIFESP (Federal University of São Paulo, in Brazil) in the Digital Media and Society Observatory (DMSO), where she collaborates with scholars from Africa and Latin America on computational social sciences, politics, digital journalism, disinformation, and media political economy. Lucia is on the Digital Journalism editorial board.