Aracele Lima Torres

PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo (USP), having developed research on the ideology of the free and open internet and its implications in the debate on internet governance, especially on net neutrality. She was a Fulbright sandwich doctorate fellow during the 2017/2018 period, having developed part of her research at The University of Vermont in the United States. She also holds a Masters degree from the University of São Paulo, and defended her dissertation on the history of the free software movement. She holds a degree in History from the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI). She works in the areas of History of Science and Technology and Digital Humanities and has as main research interests the themes: history of Free Software, internet governance, ideologies and utopias around digital technologies and electronic democracy. She is the author of the book "The technoutopia of free software: A history of the technical and political project of GNU", which tells the story of the free software movement and its adoption as a utopia for some social groups.Currently works as a researcher at lab.hum (Digital Humanities Laboratory) and Hímaco ((History, Maps and Computers) group at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Guarulhos Campus. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)