Yvonne Eadon, Ph.D.

• mis- and disinformation
• conspriacy theories
• gender and sexuality
• information seeking and behavior
• archives
• social media and the Internet
• generative AI

Dr. Yvonne M. Eadon (she/they) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky's School of Information Science. Dr. Eadon was formerly a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at UNC - Chapel Hill. Their interdisciplinary research focuses on knowledge production within fringe conspiratorial research cultures, and draws from information studies, mis- and disinformation studies, conspiracy theory scholarship, and feminist science and technology studies (STS). She specializes in intensive interviewing, in-person participant observation, and digital ethnography, and has presented her work at many conferences and associations including the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) and the Society for the Social Study of Science (4S). Dr. Eadon obtained their MLIS and PhD in Information Studies from UCLA and worked as a Senior Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). Their dissertation, titled “‘They Are the Conspiracy Theorists, Not I:’ Mapping the Research Selves of Counter-Establishment Researchers,” explored the research practices of people who research alternative or counter-establishment topics, often characterized as “conspiracy theories.” With Dr. Stacy Wood, she is the co-founder of the Resistant Research Network, which has received funding from the Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue. Current areas of work include research on the relationship between mis- and disinformation and generative AI, the political economy of conspirituality, and participatory knowledge production within feminized conspiracy theory communities.