Hi, I’m Bárbara Barbosa Neves. Here I record my ideas about technology, social media, sociology, and anything that comes to my mind.
I’m an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the School of Social & Political Sciences of the Technical University of Lisbon (ISCSP-UTL), Portugal. I teach research methods, sociology of technology, and contemporary sociological thought.
I’m also a researcher at the Centre for Public Administration & Policies (CAPP). My research focuses on the social impact of technology, mainly of the Internet.
I submitted my doctoral dissertation in Sociology in October 2011, and I’m now waiting for my defense. My PhD was done at the Technical University of Lisbon, while I was a visiting doctoral student at Netlab, University of Toronto. My PhD research was about Internet usage and social capital in Lisbon. Professor João Bilhim (ISCSP-UTL), Professor Barry Wellman (Netlab) and Professor Jaime Fonseca were my wonder trio of PhD advisors. Professor Fausto Amaro and fabulous Beverly Wellman guided me informally.
From 2009 to 2011 I had the privilege of being a visiting scholar at the department of Media and Communication (IMK) of the University of Oslo, Norway.
I’m an elected member of the board of the Committee on Family Research (CFR), International Sociological Association (ISA).
In my free time, I like to read (everything, cereal boxes included), to run, to wander aimlessly with my dog Mr. Joey, and to have “philosophical debates” with my partner, Marcos Caceres, while he cooks 
If you want to contact me, I’m available at barbara at bbneves.com or barbara.neves at iscsp.utl.pt. You can also find me at academia. I’m @barbaraneves on twitter.
What’s Mushin?
Mushin (shortened from mushin no shin) means literally “no mindedness”. In martial arts, it’s a cognitive state, where the mind is not focused on anything and therefore is open to everything. As I’m not a fighter – I just love Shaolin movies – I use it to describe a basic principle of research: having an open mind.
