Dr Sara Vannini

MA (Bologna, Italy), PhD (Lugano, Switzerland)

Information School

Lecturer in Information Management and Information Systems

Sara Vannini
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s.vannini@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Sara Vannini
Information School
Room C222
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
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S10 2AH
Profile

I hold a MA in Latin American Literatures from the University of Bologna, Italy, with a dissertation on educational practices and indigenous knowledge in Southern Chile, and a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University 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 University 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 University of Washington Information School, Seattle, WA (USA). After my Post-Doc, I started working as a Lecturer at the University of Washington Department of Communications and the Integrated Social Sciences online program. I joined the Information School at ºù«Ӱҵ as a Lecturer in Information Management and Information Systems in 2020.

Research interests

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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Journal articles

  • Vannini S, Tandon A & Masiero S (2024) . Information Technology for Development, 30(2), 195-208. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bentley C, Muyoya C, Vannini S, Oman S & Jimenez A (2023) . Big Data & Society, 10(2). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jimenez A, Vannini S & Cox A (2022) . Journal of Documentation. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Newell BC, Vannini S & Gomez R (2020) . The Information Society, 36(4), 199-213. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Gomez R & Newell BC (2020) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 71(8), 927-938. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Gomez R, Lopez D, Mora S, Morrison JC, Tanner J, Youkhana L, Vergara G & Mar Moreno Tafurt M (2020) . The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 86(1). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bentley CM, Nemer D & Vannini S (2019) . AI & Society, 34(3), 477-493. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gomez R & Vannini S (2017) . The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 78(1), 1-46. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Nemer D, Halabi A, Sabiescu AG & David Cumbula S (2017) Critical incidents analysis : mismatching expectations and reconciling visions in intercultural encounters. The Journal of Community Informatics, 13(2), 13-34. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Carney MA, Gomez R, Mitchell K & Vannini S (2017) Sanctuary planet : a global sanctuary movement for the time of Trump. Society & Space. RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Vannini S, Gomez R & Newell BC (2019) . Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development RIS download Bibtex download

All publications

Journal articles

  • Vannini S, Tandon A & Masiero S (2024) . Information Technology for Development, 30(2), 195-208. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bentley C, Muyoya C, Vannini S, Oman S & Jimenez A (2023) . Big Data & Society, 10(2). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jimenez A, Vannini S & Cox A (2022) . Journal of Documentation. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Newell BC, Vannini S & Gomez R (2020) . The Information Society, 36(4), 199-213. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gomez R, Newell BC & Vannini S (2020) . The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), 4(2), 116-122. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Gomez R & Newell BC (2020) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 71(8), 927-938. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gomez R, Newell BC & Vannini S (2020) . Journal on Migration and Human Security, 8(1), 1-13. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Gomez R, Lopez D, Mora S, Morrison JC, Tanner J, Youkhana L, Vergara G & Mar Moreno Tafurt M (2020) . The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 86(1). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bentley CM, Nemer D & Vannini S (2019) . AI & Society, 34(3), 477-493. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Gomez R, Carney M & Mitchell K (2018) . Migration and Society, 1(1), 164-174. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Gomez R, Carney M & Mitchell K (2018) . Migration and Society, 1(1), 164-174. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Rega I & Cantoni L (2018) . Semiotica, 2018(223), 173-175. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rega I & Vannini S (2018) . Semiotica, 2018(223), 199-217. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Pucciarelli M & Vannini S (2018) . Semiotica, 2018(223), 219-250. RIS download Bibtex download
  • De Ascaniis S, Vannini S & Cantoni L (2018) . Semiotica, 2018(220), 173-198. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gomez R & Vannini S (2017) . The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 78(1), 1-46. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Nemer D, Halabi A, Sabiescu AG & David Cumbula S (2017) Critical incidents analysis : mismatching expectations and reconciling visions in intercultural encounters. The Journal of Community Informatics, 13(2), 13-34. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Carney MA, Gomez R, Mitchell K & Vannini S (2017) Sanctuary planet : a global sanctuary movement for the time of Trump. Society & Space. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Rega I, Sala S & Cantoni L (2015) . The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), 67(1), 1-23. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Halabi A, Sabiescu AG, David S, Vannini S & Nemer D (2015) From exploration to design : aligning intentionality in community informatics projects. The Journal of Community Informatics, 11(3). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Rega I & Cantoni L (2015) . Information Technology for Development, 21(1), 85-98. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rega I, Vannini S, Fino E & Cantoni L (2013) Exploring the meanings of community multimedia centers in Mozambique : a social representations perspective. Information Technology and International Development, 9(4), 35-54. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rapetti E, Picco A & Vannini S (2011) 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. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Azhar F, Vannini S, Newell BC & Gomez R (2021) In McAuliffe M (Ed.), Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology (pp. 92-106). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S & Rega I (2020) 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 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S & Rega I (2020) In Traxler J & Crompton H (Ed.), Critical Mobile Pedagogy: Cases of Digital Technologies and Learners at the Margins (pp. 110-122). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Aylward B, Cox A & Vannini S (2022) 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. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S & Ahmed SI (2022) Introduction to the ACM Digital Library Proceedings of ICTD 2022. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp xi-xii) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marais MA & Vannini S (2021) 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. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Gomez R & Newell BC (2019) . Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Gomez R & Newell BC (2019) (pp 236-244) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S, Nemer D & Rega I (2017) . Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gomez L, Gomez R & Vannini S (2017) 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) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vannini S () . iConference 2016 Proceedings RIS download Bibtex download

Reports

  • Wagg S, Vannini S, Zamani E, Klyshbekova M, Aylward B & Jia X (2024) Digital inclusion network development: a case study in Derbyshire - Full report RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wagg S, Vannini S, Zamani E, Klyshbekova M, Aylward B & Jia X (2024) Digital inclusion network development: a case study in Derbyshire - Executive Summary RIS download Bibtex download
Teaching activities

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