Expertise

Examining gender dynamics, feminized conspiracy theories, platforms and archives.

Education

BA (Comparative Literature), University of California, Berkeley
MLIS, PhD (Information Studies), University of California, Los Angeles

Biography

Yvonne M. Eadon conducts research at the intersection of conspiracy theory scholarship, information seeking and behavior, online misinformation and disinformation, and archival studies. Her dissertation, titled “‘They Are the Conspiracy Theorists, Not I’: Mapping the Research Selves of Counter-Establishment Researchers,” examines the research practices and self-concepts of people who research UFOs, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the missing 411 phenomenon.