Irene V. Pasquetto

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Assistant Professor of Information, College of Information Studies

Hello, I’m a scholar in the field of information and communication studies. I research contemporary knowledge production, management and communication practices, with a focus on how these are mediated by digital technologies and data-driven reasoning. My most recent research work focuses on open science, digital curation of science artifacts, public participation in science, and science-related mis- and disinformation. I’m an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, where I taught ethics of information technologies and digital curation. I’m also a Senior Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, at the Harvard Kennedy School, where I co-founded the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review in 2019.

news

Sep 25, 2024 I attended the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) annual awards dinner recognizing individuals who have helped safeguard the right to privacy, open government, and democratic values.
Sep 20, 2024 I participated in an NSF funded, solutions focused workshop, focused on advancing a research agenda that can inform the development of new policies and practices in open science communications.
Apr 15, 2024 I presented new work on “science opposition infrastructures” in Leiden, The Netherlands, at the workshop “How to evaluate emerging knowledge infrastructures”. Link here
Apr 9, 2024 I participated as a panelist to the “Meme Magic and Media Madness: Navigating Social Media Echo Chambers” panel, organized by the Harvard-wide Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) Forum
Mar 12, 2024 I was interviewed by the Scientific American on March 4th. Check out the full article here.

selected publications

  1. What is research data “misuse”? And how can it be prevented or mitigated?
    Pasquetto, Irene V, Cullen, Zoë, Thomer, Andrea, and Wofford, Morgan
    Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2024
  2. Misinformed about misinformation: On the polarizing discourse on misinformation and its consequences for the field
    Pasquetto, Irene V, Lim, Gabrielle, and Bradshaw, Samantha
    Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review 2024
  3. Preprint servers and journals: Rivals or allies?
    Chtena, Natascha, Alperin, Juan Pablo, Pinfield, Stephen, Fleerackers, Alice, and Pasquetto, Irene
    2024
  4. “Does it feel like a scientific paper?”: A qualitative analysis of preprint servers’ moderation and quality assurance processes
    Chtena, Natascha, Pasquetto, Irene, Fleerackers, Alice, Pinfield, Stephen, Marshall, Melanie Benson, and Alperin, Juan Pablo
    2024
  5. Disinformation as Infrastructure: Making and maintaining the QAnon conspiracy on Italian digital media
    Pasquetto, Irene V, Olivieri, Alberto F, Tacchetti, Luca, Riotta, Gianni, and Spada, Alessandra
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2022
  6. Getting Ourselves Together: Data-centered participatory design research & epistemic burden
    Pierre, Jennifer, Crooks, Roderic, Currie, Morgan, Paris, Britt, and Pasquetto, Irene V
    In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021
  7. Uses and reuses of scientific data: The data creators’ advantage
    Pasquetto, Irene V, Borgman, Christine L, and Wofford, Morgan F
    Harvard data science Review 2019
  8. Cracking Open the Black Box of Genetic Ancestry Testing
    Donovan, Joan, Pasquetto, Irene V, and Pierre, Jennifer
    Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2018
  9. On the reuse of scientific data
    Pasquetto, Irene V, Randles, Bernadette M, and Borgman, Christine L
    Data Science Journal 2017
  10. The conundrum of police officer-involved homicides: Counter-data in Los Angeles County
    Currie, Morgan, Paris, Britt S, Pasquetto, Irene V, and Pierre, Jennifer
    Big Data & Society 2016