Dr Sara Vannini
MA (Bologna, Italy), PhD (Lugano, Switzerland)
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Lecturer in Information Management and Information Systems
Full contact details
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Room C222
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I hold a MA in Latin American Literatures from the ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Bologna, Italy, with a dissertation on educational practices and indigenous knowledge in Southern Chile, and a PhD in Communication Sciences from the ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Lugano, Switzerland, with a thesis on public access to Information and Communication Technologies in Mozambique.
After graduating from my PhD, I worked initially as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the BeCHANGE Research Group and at the NewMinE Lab at the ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Lugano, on projects related to health communication, environmental security, social marketing, and information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D). Then, I was awarded an Early.PostDoc fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to join the Technology and Social Change - TASCHA group at the ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Washington Information School, Seattle, WA (USA). After my Post-Doc, I started working as a Lecturer at the ÀÖ¾ºÌåÓý of Washington Department of Communications and the Integrated Social Sciences online program. I joined the Information School at Sheffield as a Lecturer in Information Management and Information Systems in 2020.
- Research interests
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I am the head of the Information Systems Research Group.
My research interests are at the intersection of critical studies of technology and society, social change, and information ethics. I focus on social appropriation and embodied experiences of technologies by different social groups, information privacy in the context of migration, the role of public access to information in mis/disinformation, and participatory and visual methodologies of inquiry.
I am interested in supervising PhD projects that advance critical, post-colonial, feminist and participatory studies of:
- Information and communication technologies for development and social change
- Data justice, data privacy and security in the context of underserved, vulnerable, or oppressed populations
- Mis/dis-information as connected to information literacy and public access to information
- Social construction and embodied experiences of information and communication technologies
- Migration and sanctuary studies connected to information and communication technologies
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- . Information Technology for Development, 30(2), 195-208.
- . Big Data & Society, 10(2).
- . Journal of Documentation.
- . The Information Society, 36(4), 199-213.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 71(8), 927-938.
- . The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 86(1).
- . AI & Society, 34(3), 477-493.
- . The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 78(1), 1-46.
- Critical incidents analysis : mismatching expectations and reconciling visions in intercultural encounters. The Journal of Community Informatics, 13(2), 13-34.
- Sanctuary planet : a global sanctuary movement for the time of Trump. Society & Space.
Conference proceedings papers
- . Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
All publications
Journal articles
- . Information Technology for Development, 30(2), 195-208.
- . Big Data & Society, 10(2).
- . Journal of Documentation.
- . The Information Society, 36(4), 199-213.
- . The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), 4(2), 116-122.
- . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 71(8), 927-938.
- . Journal on Migration and Human Security, 8(1), 1-13.
- . The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 86(1).
- . AI & Society, 34(3), 477-493.
- . Migration and Society, 1(1), 164-174.
- . Migration and Society, 1(1), 164-174.
- . Semiotica, 2018(223), 173-175.
- . Semiotica, 2018(223), 199-217.
- . Semiotica, 2018(223), 219-250.
- . Semiotica, 2018(220), 173-198.
- . The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 78(1), 1-46.
- Critical incidents analysis : mismatching expectations and reconciling visions in intercultural encounters. The Journal of Community Informatics, 13(2), 13-34.
- Sanctuary planet : a global sanctuary movement for the time of Trump. Society & Space.
- . The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), 67(1), 1-23.
- From exploration to design : aligning intentionality in community informatics projects. The Journal of Community Informatics, 11(3).
- . Information Technology for Development, 21(1), 85-98.
- Exploring the meanings of community multimedia centers in Mozambique : a social representations perspective. Information Technology and International Development, 9(4), 35-54.
- Is mobile learning a resource in higher education? Data evidence from an empirical research in Ticino (Switzerland). Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 7(2), 47-57.
- . Annals of Anthropological Practice.
Chapters
- In McAuliffe M (Ed.), Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology (pp. 92-106). Edward Elgar Publishing
- Mobile information literacy and public access in the era of post-truth: reflections from community curricular experiences in Latin America In Traxler J & Crompton H (Ed.), Critical Mobile Pedagogy Cases of Digital Technologies and Learners at the Margins Routledge
- In Traxler J & Crompton H (Ed.), Critical Mobile Pedagogy: Cases of Digital Technologies and Learners at the Margins (pp. 110-122). Routledge
Conference proceedings papers
- The revolution will (not?) be archived: Web archiving needs of activist collections in the North of England. CIRN 2022: 20 years of CIRN: Examining the Past, Present, and Future of Communities and Technology.
- Introduction to the ACM Digital Library Proceedings of ICTD 2022. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp xi-xii)
- NETWORK WEAVING TO FOSTER RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY IN ICT4D. First Virtual Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development, 2021, 25 May 2021 - 28 May 2021.
- . Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
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- . Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
- The power of participatory photography in ICTD programs: Freedom to explore beyond images. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. 2017-January (pp 2600-2609)
- . iConference 2016 Proceedings
Reports
- Digital inclusion network development: a case study in Derbyshire - Full report
- Digital inclusion network development: a case study in Derbyshire - Executive Summary
- . Information Technology for Development, 30(2), 195-208.
- Teaching activities
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I am currently contributing to the modules:
- INF6400: Information Systems and the Information Society
- INF6180 Library and Information Society
- INF6580 Library and Information Society
- INF109 Digital Media and Society