Scholars
Lorena Lucas Regattieri
Green Screen Coalition
Based in
Brazil
South America
Lori Regattieri (they/she) is a public interest technologist focused on the intersection of a just energy transition, territorial rights, and emerging technologies. As a consultant in the philanthropic and nonprofit sector, Regattieri facilitates cross-sector collaboration and supports South-South coalitions working toward climate justice. Their work centers on partnerships with movements advocating for Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants, and local communities (IPADLC) in the Global Majority. Bridging political economy, sociotechnical systems, and design justice, they help shape strategies for land rights, energy governance, and inclusive economies. A member of the Green Screen Coalition, Regattieri previously served as a Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation. They hold a PhD in Communication and Culture from UFRJ. For over two decades, their research has examined the political economy of AI, infrastructures, and archives through the lenses of science and technology studies, cultural studies, and decolonial epistemologies. In 2024, the Media Ecology Association honored them with the Jacques Ellul Award for Outstanding Media Ecology Activism. More information: http://www.eco-midia.com.
Country(ies) of Specialty
Brazil Indonesia PalestineFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Communications research Climate Justice Public opinionPublications
Articles
Takau, Lígia, Rodrigo Cascalles, Mariana Oliveira, Lorena Regattieri, Lucas Mayon Neiva Flores, Lucio Vicente, and Gabriel Medeiros Gomes. “PPCDAm: Conectando Valores e Transformando Narrativas Rumo ao Desmatamento Zero.” In Jornada de Líderes pelo Desmatamento Zero na Amazônia até 2030, Imaflora, 2024.
Salles, Débora, Pedro M. de Medeiros, Bruno Martins, Lorena Regattieri, and Ricardo M. Santini. “The Role of Social Bots in the Brazilian Environmental Debate: An Analysis of the 2020 Amazon Forest Fires on Twitter.” The International Review of Information Ethics, vol. 33, no. 1, 2024.
Regattieri, Lorena, Jessica Botelho, and Eliana Quiroz. “Empowering Community-Driven Alliances against Social-Environmental and Climate Disinformation.” Branch Magazine, The Green Web Foundation, 2023. https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-6/empowering-community-driven-alliances-against-social-environmental-and-climate-disinformation
Regattieri, Lorena. “A Propaganda Desinformativa no Projeto de Destruição Nacional Bolsonarista: A Desinformação como Estratégia de Governo na Agenda Socioambiental Durante a Presidência de Jair Bolsonaro (PL).” Revista Eco-Pós, vol. 26, no. 1, 2023, pp. 105–139. https://doi.org/10.29146/eco-ps.v26i01.28005
Santini, Rose Marie, Débora Salles, Lorena Lucas Regattieri, and Carlos Eduardo Barros. “Computational Propaganda Effects.” In Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics, edited by Andrea Ceron, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
Regattieri, Lorena Lucas. “Bots como Agentes de Expressão: Regime de Visibilidades e o Poder de Criar Redes.” Contracampo: Brazilian Journal of Communication, vol. 38, no. 3, 2019, pp. 130–149.
Regattieri, Lorena Lucas. “Perfis Ciborgues: Humanos-Robôs e Robôs-Humanos nos Ecossistemas de Informação Online.” Anais da ReACT – Reunião de Antropologia da Ciência e Tecnologia, vol. 4, no. 4, 2019, pp. 1–15.
Regattieri, Lorena Lucas, and Henrique Antoun. “Algoritmização da Vida e Organização da Informação: Considerações sobre a Tecnicidade no Algoritmo a Partir de Gilbert Simondon.” Liinc em Revista, vol. 14, no. 2, 2018, pp. 462–474.
Regattieri, Lorena, Marcelo Castañeda. “Na Beira do Rio Doce: Antropoceno e Mobilização no Rastro da Catástrofe.” ClimaCom: Cultura Científica – Pesquisa, Jornalismo e Arte, vol. 3, no. 5, Apr. 2016. https://climacom.mudancasclimaticas.net.br/na-beira-do-rio-doce-antropoceno-e-mobilizacao-no-rastro-da-catastrofe
Machado, Leila Domingues, Haroldo Ferreira Lima, and Lorena Lucas Regattieri. “Corpos Luminosos, Passageiros da Noite.” Esferas, no. 5, Universidade Católica de Brasília, 2015. https://seer.ucb.br/esferas/article/view/8364
Regattieri, Lorena, Fabio Malini, Fabio Goveia, and Gabriel Herkenhoff. “MarcoCivil: Visualizing the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet in Brazil.” Hypertext 2014 Extended Proceedings: Late-breaking Results, Doctoral Consortium and Workshop Proceedings of the 25th ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference (Hypertext 2014), Santiago, Chile, 1–4 Sept. 2014, ACM, 2014.
Regattieri, Lorena Lucas, Fábio Malini Luiz de Lima, Nelson Aloysio Reis de Almeida Passos, and Jean Maicon Medeiros. “A Forma Perspectiva no Twitter: Uma Técnica Quanti-Qualitativa para Estudos de Redes Sociais.” Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, XXXVII, Foz do Iguaçu, 9 Sept. 2014. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268509298
Regattieri, Lorena, Ryan Chartier, Jennifer Windsor, and Geoffrey Rockwell. “TweetViz: Following Twitter Hashtags to Support Storytelling.” Hypertext 2014 Extended Proceedings: Late-breaking Results, Doctoral Consortium and Workshop Proceedings of the 25th ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference (Hypertext 2014), Santiago, Chile, 1–4 Sept. 2014, ACM, 2014.
Regattieri, Lorena, Jean Maicon Medeiros, and Fabio Malini. “The Use of Modularity Algorithms as Part of the Conceptualization of the Perspectival Form in Large Networks.” Hypertext 2014 Extended Proceedings: Late-breaking Results, Doctoral Consortium and Workshop Proceedings of the 25th ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference (Hypertext 2014), Santiago, Chile, 1–4 Sept. 2014, ACM, 2014.