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Mobilização humana, bots e disputa de poder nas redes à luz dos resultados obtidos pelo canal de WhatsApp “Exército do Lula”

Rômulo Soares Valentini

Technical article published in October 2026. Based on the case of the WhatsApp channel “Exército do Lula”, it examines the extent to which organizing people in digital networks can affect the distribution of political attention on private platforms, as an alternative to paid mechanisms for amplifying speech. It covers the channel’s history, the legal limits on mobilization under electoral law, the notion of crowd labor and digital resistance, the results documented during the second round of voting, and the role of financial capital and algorithmic opacity in controlling visibility. It concludes that voluntary mobilization competes for visibility without direct spending, but remains dependent on access, recommendation and moderation rules that participants do not control.

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Law, Technology and Innovation series

Book series “Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação”, the outcome of a course taught in the master’s and doctoral programs of the Graduate School of Law at UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais). Most volumes are in Portuguese.

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Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação — v. VII: 10 anos do Marco Civil da Internet

Leonardo Parentoni

This is the seventh book in the series “Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação” (Law, Technology and Innovation), the outcome of a course taught in the master’s and doctoral programs of the Graduate School of Law at UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais), under the coordination of Prof. Leonardo Parentoni. It focuses on the main developments of the Marco Civil da Internet (Brazilian Internet Civil Rights Framework) ten years after its enactment, from six angles: (i) the background of the Marco Civil; (ii) computer forensics; (iii) net neutrality; (iv) service providers and their types, record retention and civil liability; (v) content moderation, freedom of expression and fundamental rights; (vi) regulation of digital platforms.

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Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação — v. VI: Ciência de Dados e Direito

Leonardo Parentoni and Wagner Meira Júnior (eds.)

This is the sixth book in the series “Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação” (Law, Technology and Innovation), the outcome of a course taught in the master’s and doctoral programs of the Graduate School of Law at UFMG, under the coordination of Prof. Leonardo Parentoni and Prof. Wagner Meira Júnior. It focuses on the intersections between Data Science and Law, from four angles: (i) introductory aspects; (ii) Data Science and AI; (iii) legal applications; (iv) new contexts.

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Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação — v. V: Internet das Coisas (IoT)

Leonardo Parentoni and Michele Nogueira (eds.)

This is the fifth book in the series “Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação” (Law, Technology and Innovation), the outcome of a course taught in the master’s and doctoral programs of the Graduate School of Law at UFMG, under the coordination of Prof. Leonardo Parentoni and Prof. Michele Nogueira. It focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT), from five angles: (i) infrastructure aspects; (ii) professional practice and civil liability; (iii) personal data protection; (iv) information security and cybersecurity; (v) new specific situations.

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Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação — v. IV: Estudos de Casos

Leonardo Parentoni

This is the fourth book in the series “Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação” (Law, Technology and Innovation), the outcome of a course taught in the master’s and doctoral programs of the Graduate School of Law at UFMG, under the coordination of Prof. Leonardo Parentoni. It focuses on the legal analysis of real cases, from five angles: (i) ethics and algorithm development; (ii) personal data protection; (iii) blockchain and tokenization; (iv) net neutrality, cryptography and digital platforms; (v) regulatory aspects and other situations.

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Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação — v. III: Aplicações Jurídicas de Blockchain

Leonardo Parentoni

This is the third book in the series “Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação: Law, Technology and Innovation”, the outcome of a course taught in the master’s and doctoral programs of the Graduate School of Law at UFMG, under the coordination of Prof. Leonardo Parentoni. It focuses on the legal analysis of blockchain technology.

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Law, Technology and Innovation — v. II: Insights on Artificial Intelligence and the Law

Leonardo Parentoni

This is the second book of the collection from DTIBR Research Center, the first fully written in English, dedicated to the study of artificial intelligence (AI). It was kickstarted during Professors Leonardo Parentoni and Renato Cardoso classes in the Ph.D. course at the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG/Brazil, during the first semester of 2018. As far as we know, this was the first comprehensive Ph.D. course about AI in a Brazilian Law School.

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Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação — v. I

Leonardo Parentoni (ed.)

The book is the result of a project carried out over three years, with the aim of giving readers a broad and in-depth view of current topics in law, technology and innovation. It brought together 65 authors from more than 20 Brazilian and foreign universities and research centers, in fields such as Law, Economics, Medicine and Computer Science, resulting in a work of over a thousand pages.

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Policy paper and articles

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Policy paper: PLS n. 5.051/2019 — princípios para o uso da inteligência artificial no Brasil

Leonardo Parentoni

In Brazil, Federal Senate Bill PLS No. 5051/2019, introduced by Senator Styvenson Valentim, recently took the legislative lead by proposing the regulation of Artificial Intelligence, a technology present in the most diverse scientific fields and developing with growing investment from the private and public sectors of many countries. PLS No. 5051/2019 proposes a set of guiding principles while also addressing controversial issues such as civil liability and human review of autonomous decisions. In an effort to help improve the bill, Centro DTIBR prepared the first Policy Paper on this national bill. We present technical opinions and an analysis of the legislation of several countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, China and Uruguay, as well as the European Union and the OECD.

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Network Neutrality: what is internet made of, how is it changing and how does it affect your life?

Leonardo Parentoni

“SUMMARY: 1. Introduction and delimitation of the subject. 2. Brief history of the Internet. 3. What is Internet made of? Network design and its layers. 4. How is Internet changing. 5. How does it affect your life. 6. The main regulatory response: network neutrality. 7. Internet design and the limits of Network Neutrality. 8. Conclusion.”

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