Jorge Pereira Campos
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Dr Jorge Pereira Campos

Researcher and writer on adolescent development in digital and algorithmic worlds.

  • PhDHuman Behaviour & Intelligent SystemsSt Andrews
  • MScHealth PsychologyStrathclyde
  • MScConsumer AnalyticsLeeds

Based between London and Porto.

Statement

I write about how young people grow up inside systems that are themselves learning from them.

About my work

In progress

A book on what is happening to children’s interior lives now that those lives are also data — drafting through 2026.

From recent writing

  1. The population most affected by changes in the conditions of privacy is the population in active formation.

    — From A Question, Five Years Later

  2. The behaviour is the alarm; it is not the fire.

    — From Why So Many “Bad” Behaviours Are Really About Safety

  3. Identity formation under continuous prediction tends toward responsiveness rather than coherence.

    — From Living Inside Algorithms

On television

TVI  ·  Televisão Independente, Portugal

On the recognition of A&J Education by King Charles III.

A national television conversation following the King’s formal recognition of A&J Education in 2024 — what the work is, why it was recognised, and what families take from it.

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Essays

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  1. 9 min

    When the Watcher Became the Confidant

    For the better part of 70 years, the machines that profile us and the machines we confide in ran on separate tracks; with conversational AI,…

  2. 4 min

    A Question, Five Years Later

    A return, five years on, to a question I could not properly answer at my PhD viva: if privacy is fundamentally about the formation of the se…

  3. 9 min

    The Social Media Verdict Got It Half Right.

    The trial proved that social media companies built a product that is addictive by design; that is the supply side. But addiction has always …

Research

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  1. 2026Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

    Like guardian angels: Continuous location-sharing and the production of safety among US college students

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  2. 2024Human–Computer Interaction

    "Those blimmin Ts and Cs": A mixed methods analysis of how people manage personal information, privacy, and impressions

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  3. 2023Surveillance & Society

    Family surveillance: Understanding parental monitoring, reciprocal practices, and digital resilience

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Talks

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  1. Lecture

    On adolescent development and AI in education

    Educare Gondomar — Education Summit, Portugal

  2. Lecture

    Sensitive sensors: Exploring social identity as a method to improve communication of engineering innovation

    Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  3. Lecture

    Algorithmic adolescence: How identity forms inside curated environments

    Cornell University, Department of Information Science

Research interests

Three threads currently in progress.

  1. adolescence

    Adolescent development in digital worlds.

    How identity, emotion, and autonomy form during adolescence in online and algorithmic environments. Empirical and theoretical work on what changes — and what does not — when development happens inside systems that watch, predict, and respond.

  2. agency

    Psychological agency in algorithmic environments.

    How young people think, choose, and self-direct in systems shaped by algorithms and AI. The conditions under which agency is supported, narrowed, or quietly outsourced.

  3. relational

    Relational development in human–technology systems.

    How adolescents form relationships, trust, and meaning with and through digital and AI systems — with particular attention to attachment, support, and the design of systems that adolescents actually rely on.

About & contact

For media, academic, and speaking enquiries.

Background

I am a researcher, educator, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of developmental psychology, education, and artificial intelligence. My work focuses on how adolescents develop identity, agency, and emotional regulation inside digital and algorithmic environments — particularly in contexts of learning, support, and everyday decision-making.

PhD, University of St Andrews, on Human Behaviour and Intelligent Systems. MSc, Strathclyde (Health Psychology). MSc, Leeds (Consumer Analytics).

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