Jodi Schneider

Jodi Schneider, an associate professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s School of Information Sciences, studies science using mixed methods from argumentation, network science, and metadata analysis. Her long-term research agenda analyzes controversies applying science to public policy, especially differences in interpretations of scientific evidence and its quality. She is best known for her work on pragmatic information problems: her stakeholder engagement, Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science, led the National Information Standards Organization to develop an industry standard for disseminating retraction information.

At Radcliffe, Schneider is examining how the online communication environment contributes to information disorder—collectively defined as misinformation, disinformation, and the weaponization of true information. She is designing interventions to mitigate information disorder in the public communication of science.

Schneider holds a PhD in informatics from the National University of Ireland, Galway, master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin and in library and information science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a bachelor's from St. John's College, in Annapolis, Maryland. Her work has been profiled in Nature and Science. She is a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project and an ACM senior member. Schneider coauthored Argumentation Mining (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2018). She directs the Information Quality Lab. Her work has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the European Commission, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Institutes of Health, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Office of Research Integrity, and Science Foundation Ireland.