Ian Johnson

About

I am a lecturer in HCI in Open Lab. My work centres on rural informatics and Rural HCI. I contribute to the Centre for Digital Citizens based in Open Lab researching the impacts of mis- and disinformation, and lead a rural informatics research agenda. My research is at the cross-section of social and political theory and sociodigital design and examines the role of civil society and other forms of active citizenship in shaping their communities.

Selected publications

• Understanding and responding to complex online harms: misinformation, fake news, and young adults
• Socio-digital Rural Resilience: An Exploration of Information Infrastructures Within and Across Rural Villages During Covid-19
• Civic Probes: A Method That Embeds Questions of Civic Infrastructure and Participation
• Neighbourhood Data: Exploring the Role of Open Data in Locally Devolved Policymaking Processes
• Making open data work for civic advocacy
• Exploring Future Media Ecologies with Community Organizations: Designing for Uses, Needs and Aspirations
• Developing an Action Plan for Rural Informatics
• Alt(ernate) CHI: Using Alternate History Artifacts in Research
• The Potential and Implications of Generative AI on HCI Education
• Design Implications for a Social and Collaborative Understanding of online Information Assessment Practices, Challenges and Heuristics