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Dr Marco Bastos

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication

School of Communication & Creativity Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries

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I'm the University College Dublin Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Information and Communication Studies and Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication in the Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries at City, University of London. Previous to that I held research positions at the University of Sao Paulo, University of California at Davis, and Duke University, where I am an affiliate of the Duke Network Analysis Center.

My work addresses sociological aspects of digital media with a substantive interest in the cross-effects between online and offline social networks. My research brings together communication and computational social science and the source code of my projects is available on CRAN and GitHub.

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Books (8)

  • Bastos, M. and Rossi, L. (2026). Handbook of Social and Communication Networks. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035325030.
  • (2026). The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Latin American Studies. Springer Nature Switzerland. ISBN 9783031775000.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). BREXIT, TWEETED: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). BREXIT, TWEETED Polarization and Social Media Manipulation Conclusion. ISBN 9781529224498.
  • Walker, S., Mercea, D. and Bastos, M. (2021). Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms. Walker, S., Mercea, D. and Bastos, M. (Eds.), London: Routledge. ISBN 9781032074474.
  • Bastos, M. (2021). Spatializing Social Media. Routledge.
  • Bastos, M. (2021). Spatializing Social Media. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367374204.
  • Recuero, R., Bastos, M. and Zago, G. (2015). Analise de Redes para a Midia Social. ISBN 9788520507339.

Chapters (30)

  • Bastos, M. (2026). So Long Twitter, and Thanks for All the Tweets. The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (pp. 385-396). Routledge.
  • Bastos, M. and Rossi, L. (2026). Introduction to the Handbook of Social and Communication Networks. Handbook of Social and Communication Networks (pp. 1-7). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035325030.
  • Bastos, M. (2026). Network media effects. Handbook of Social and Communication Networks (pp. 8-18). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035325030.
  • Vinhas, O., Bastos, M. and Lelo, T. Fact-Checking in Latin America’s Digital Ecosystem. In Pitman, T., Holmes, T., Gómez Cruz, E., Cocco, G., Bowskill, S. and Aguiló, I. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Latin American Studies" London, UK: Palgrave.
  • Vinhas, O. and Bastos, M.T. (2026). The Institutional Logics of Fact-checking outside WEIRD countries. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M. and Freitas, O. (2026). The Bannon Doctrine: Network Insurrectionism and Democratic Backsliding. In Papacharissi, Z. (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Democracy (pp. 295-305). London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781032762081.
  • Bastos, M.T. (2025). Tabloids. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). The Politics of Deletion. BREXIT, TWEETED (pp. 117-135). ISBN 9781529224498.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). Social Media Manipulation. BREXIT, TWEETED (pp. 104-113). ISBN 9781529224498.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). Political Realignment. BREXIT, TWEETED (pp. 27-33). ISBN 9781529224498.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). Polarization. BREXIT, TWEETED (pp. 49-68). ISBN 9781529224498.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). Nationalism and Populism. BREXIT, TWEETED (pp. 34-46). ISBN 9781529224498.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). Information Warfare. BREXIT, TWEETED (pp. 91-103). ISBN 9781529224498.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). Fifty Million Brexit Tweets. BREXIT, TWEETED (pp. 7-23). ISBN 9781529224498.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). Bots and Trolls. BREXIT, TWEETED (pp. 69-87). ISBN 9781529224498.
  • Bastos, M. (2024). Accountability of Social Platforms. BREXIT, TWEETED (pp. 136-147). ISBN 9781529224498.
  • Walker, S., Mercea, D. and Bastos, M. (2021). Introduction The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms. Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms (pp. 1-13). Routledge.
  • Bastos, M. (2021). Network Spillover Effects and the Dyadic Interactions of Virtual, Social, and Spatial. Spatial Transformations (pp. 169-180). Routledge.
  • Bastos, M. and Mercea, D. (2020). Parametrizing Brexit: mapping Twitter political space to parliamentary constituencies. In Maren, B. (Ed.), Digital Media, Political Polarization and Challenges to Democracy (pp. 7-25). Routledge. ISBN 9780429534140.
  • Bastos, M. and Mercea, D. (2020). Parametrizing Brexit. Digital Media, Political Polarization and Challenges to Democracy (pp. 7-25). Routledge.
  • Bastos, M.T. (2020). Spatial Analysis Meets Internet Research. Second International Handbook of Internet Research (pp. 29-46). Springer Netherlands. ISBN 9789402415537.
  • Bastos, M.T. (2019). Tabloid Journalism. (pp. 1-6). Wiley. ISBN 9781118841679.
  • Bruns, A. (2018). Big Social Data Approaches in Internet Studies: The Case of Twitter. Second International Handbook of Internet Research (pp. 1-17). Springer Netherlands. ISBN 9789402412024.
  • Bastos, M.T. (2018). Spatial Analysis Meets Internet Research. Second International Handbook of Internet Research (pp. 1-18). Springer Netherlands. ISBN 9789402412024.
  • Bastos, (2016). Digital Journalism and Tabloid Journalism. In Franklin, B. and Eldridge, S. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies ISBN 9781138887961.
  • Recuero, R., Zago, G. and Bastos, M.T. (2015). Twitter in Political Campaigns. The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (pp. 518-530). Routledge.
  • Recuero, R., Zago, G. and Bastos, (2015). Twitter in political campaigns: The Brazilian 2014 presidential election. In Bruns, A., Enli, G., Larsson, A.O. and Christensen, C. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics 2015: Routledge. ISBN 1317506553.
  • Recuero, R., Zago, G. and Bastos, O rolezinho na mídia social: discurso e violência simbólica. A INSUSTENTAVEL LEVEZA DA WEB ISBN 9788523212605.
  • Bastos, M.T. (2012). Medium, media, mediação e midiatização : a perspectiva germânica. Mediação & midiatização (pp. 53-77). EDUFBA. ISBN 9788523212056.
  • Bastos, O sentido espectral da comunicação eletrônica. Cenários, teorias e epistemologias da comunicação Editora E-papers. ISBN 9788576501121.

Conference papers and proceedings (7)

Dataset

Internet publications (2)

Journal articles (71)

Patent

  • Travitzki, R., Bastos, and Raimundo, R.(2014). Tweet-Mine. Patent no. BR5120130004519

Software (2)

  • Bastos, and Puschmann, C. (2016). GuardianR: The Guardian API Wrapper. CRAN: CRAN.
  • Bastos, (2016). SocialMediaMineR: A Social Media Search and Analytic Tool. CRAN: CRAN.

Thesis/dissertation

  • Bastos, M.T.D.A. A epifania digital dos chats - escritura e subjetivação cibercultural.

Working papers (21)

  • Puschmann, C., Bastos, M.T. and Schmidt, J.-.H. Birds of a Feather Petition Together? Characterizing E-Petitioning Through the Lens of Platform Data. Elsevier BV.
  • Vinhas, O. and Bastos, M.T. Fact-Checking Misinformation: Eight Notes on Consensus Reality. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T. Five Challenges in Detection and Mitigation of Disinformation on Social Media. Elsevier BV.
  • Zhong, J. and Bastos, M.T. Local News as Propaganda: Precarization and Media Control in Qinghai News. Elsevier BV.
  • Mercea, D., Karatas, D. and Bastos, M.T. Persistent Activist Communication in Occupy Gezi. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T. Tabloid Journalism. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T., Mercea, D. and Charpentier, A. Tents, Tweets, and Events: The Interplay between Ongoing Protests and Social Media. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T. and Mercea, D. The Brexit Botnet and User-Generated Hyperpartisan News. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T., Mercea, D. and Baronchelli, A. The Geographic Embedding of Online Echo Chambers: Evidence from the Brexit Campaign. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T. and Mercea, D. The Public Accountability of Social Platforms: Lessons from a Study on Bots and Trolls in the Brexit Campaign. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T. and Tuters, M. Meaningful disinformation: narrative rituals and affective folktales. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T., Walker, S. and Simeone, M. The IMPED Model: Detecting Low-Quality Information in Social Media. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T. and Recuero, R. The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil. Elsevier BV.
  • Vinhas, O. and Bastos, M.T. The WEIRD Governance of Fact-Checking and the Politics of Content Moderation. Elsevier BV.
  • Vinhas, O. and Bastos, M.T. When fact-checking is not WEIRD: Negotiating consensus outside Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) countries. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T., Vinhas, O., Recuero, R. and Soares, F. Reverse Influence: The Social Production of Disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian General Election. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T. Visual Identities in Troll Farms: The Twitter Moderation Research Consortium. Elsevier BV.
  • Makeev, M. and Bastos, M.T. Behind the Enemy News: Issue Salience in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Elsevier BV.
  • Bastos, M.T. So Long Twitter, and Thanks for All the Tweets. Elsevier BV.
  • Duarte, M. and Bastos, M.T. The Emergence of the Shallow State and the Capturing of Twitter. Elsevier BV.
  • McNally, N. and Bastos, M.T. The News Feed is not a Black Box: A Longitudinal Study of Facebook’s Algorithmic Treatment of News. Elsevier BV.