Fernando Nascimento

Books

Nascimento, Fernando. Digital Poetics: A Ricoeurian Approach to Digital Technologies. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 232 pages.

Chown, Eric; Nascimento, Fernando. Meaningful Technologies: How Metaphors Shape the Way We Live and Think. Ann Arbor, MI: Lever Press, 2023. 306 pages.

Co-editor (with Walter Salles), Ética, Identidade e Reconhecimento na obra de Paul Ricoeur [Ethics, Identity and Recognition in Paul Ricoeur´s Works]. São Paulo: Editora PUC-Rio & Edições Loyola, 2013. (in Portuguese). 176 pages.

    

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles

Nascimento, Fernando, and Davidson, Scott.”Are LLMs Creative? A Hermeneutic Assessment of AI-Generated Narratives.” Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 2025. In press. 27 pages.

Nascimento, Fernando, and Eric Chown. "Increasing Transparency Through Metaphor Criticism." In 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2025.

Smith, Jill, Fernando Nascimento, and Barbara Levergood. "Analyzing German Mainstream Media Coverage: Weimar in the News (2007–2019)." In Re(Centering) the Weimar Republic, edited by Katharina Clausius and Claudia Clausius. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025. In press. 25 pages.

Hayton-Ruffner, Dylan, Fernando Nascimento and James Broda. 2022. “Concept Detection in Philosophical Corpora.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 12(1): 2, pp. 1–28. DOI: https://doi. org/10.16995/dscn.8106

Chown, Eric; Nascimento, Fernando. “Software Metaphors.” In Interpreting Technologies. Eds. Cockerlbergh, M., Romele, A., Wessel, R. Rowman &Littlefield. 2021.

Crystal Hall, Eric Chown & Fernando Nascimento (2021) A critical, analytical framework for the digital machine, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 46:4, 458-476, DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2020.1865659

Bullock, Belecia, Nascimento, Fernando, Doore, Stacy. (2021). Computing Ethics Narratives: Teaching Computing Ethics and the Impact of Predictive Algorithms. Proceedings of the 52st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM SIGCSE 2021. Virtual Meeting. March 13-20. (peer reviewed)

Cooper, Allison, Nascimento, Fernando; Francis, David. "Exploring Film Language with a Digital Analysis Tool: the Case of Kinolab." In Digital Humanities Quarterly. Eds. Taylor Arnold, Stefania Scagliola, Lauren Tilton, and Jasmijn van Gorp. 15.1 (2021) (peer reviewed) 

Nascimento, Fernando. 2020. “Technologies, Narratives, and Practical Wisdom.” Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies. https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2019.481.

National Humanities Center. Responsible AI Curriculum Development. 2022.

NEH Digital Humanities Institute. University of Pittsburgh. Digital Editions. 2017.

National Humanities Center. Digital Humanities Seminar. 2015-2016.

National Humanities Center/Google - Responsible AI - This grant supported the creation of a national initiative aiming at developing a curriculum on AI Ethics. As part of this project, I co-developed and co-taught the course "AI Ethics" with professors Allison Cooper (Cinema Studies), Eric Chown (Digital and Computational Studies), and Michael Franz (Government and Legal Studies). 2022-2024. Eric Chown and I were the principal investigators in this project.

Mellon Foundation - Public Knowledge Close-Up - This grant was directed by Allison Cooper (Bowdoin - Cinema Studies), and I participated as a co-investigator, working on the project's data analysis and digital studies theoretical framework. 2023.

Mozilla Foundation - Responsible Computing - The main objective of this grant was to develop curricula embedding ethics into undergraduate computer science education in the United States. As part of the outcomes of this grant, we developed the Computing Ethics Narratives project and published a few papers and presentations in peer-reviewed venues. Stacy Doore (Computer Science - Colby College) was the principal investigator, and Allison Cooper (Cinema Studies-Bowdoin College) was a co-principal investigator of this project with me.

Bowdoin College - Faculty Research Fund - Project Title: "Concept Searching." 2018. Part of the research associated with this grant was published in Hayton-Ruffner, Dylan, Fernando Nascimento, and James Broda. 2022. "Concept Detection in Philosophical Corpora." Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 12(1): 2, pp. 1–28. DOI: https://doi. org/10.16995/dscn.8106.