MA in Media Studies (UFRGS) and PhD in Social Anthropology (UFSC), with an intership at University College London (UCL), founding institution of the University of London. Her thesis investigates, from an anthropological approach, the socio-cultural practices related to the consumption of mobile phones in urban peripheries. She has taught courses in Media and Marketing at IBES - Blumenau Institute of Higher Education and the Graduate Program in Communication and Languages, University Tuiuti (UTP), where she directed three MA dissertations. Winner of the fourth edition of the Young Researchers Contest (2010) promoted by the network DIRSI - Regional Dialogue on the Information Society, was awarded a research grant from Amy Mahan Young Researcher Fellowship in ICT Inclusion Policies IDRC - International Development Research Centre, Canada. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Communication Sciences, Federal University of Santa Maria, and she is completing her post-doctorate from the ECO-UFRJ. Her research has resulted in eleven journal articles, four book chapters and twenty publications in proceedings of scientific congresses. As a guest researcher, presented the results of her doctoral thesis at the following events: Mobilefest III - International Festival of Mobile Art and Creativity; Advanced Seminars Program of Graduate Studies in Technology and Society (UTFPR) Mesh with Creative Coins - Border Value in the Knowledge Economy (ECA-USP); XV Exhibition Design Office Federal de Santa Catarina; IELUSC Integrated Communication Week, Digital World Research Centre Meeting (University of Surrey); MIT Mobile Experience Lab Meeting (Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) and, via videoconfere, for the Digital Mobile Communication Research Group, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark). She served in the judging panel (2009-2010) of the GSM Global Mobile Awards, sponsored by the GSM Association (London) in the Mobile Use for Social and Economic Development category. She is a member of the Interinstitucional Group for the Study of Cyberculture, registered in the CNPq, and is a convenor to the Working Groups Digital Media, History of the National Media Network (ALCAR), and Consumption and Social Inclusion, the National Meeting of Consumer Studies (ESPM - RJ .) She is a member of the editorial board of E-Compós and Brazilian Journal of the History of Media. Her current research interests include theories of consumption, material culture and globalization, media representations and Brazilian culture, cyberculture and materialities of communication, and information and communication technologies for social inclusion.