Diana Daly

Dr. Diana Daly is associate professor of practice and associate dean of graduate academic affairs in the University of Arizona College of Information Science. A Fulbright Specialist in AI literacy and institutional integration, she collaborates with universities internationally to weave critical AI literacies into higher education curricula. Dr. Daly also serves on the board of the iSchools Consortium and chairs the iSchools Women's Coalition.

Her research centers on information trust, polarization and deceptive information, including the Immersive Truth project, which uses creative audio and performance-based interventions to prebunk misinformation strategies. She is a leading practitioner and critical analyst of open educational resources, authoring the widely adopted Humans R Social Media (a Pressbooks Book of the Month) and the MERLOT Exemplary Classics Award-winning Decoding Deception, co-authored with an undergraduate researcher. Through the iVoices Media Lab, she has co-produced media with students including the podcast Social Media & Ourselves, channeling student technology experiences into new media scholarship grounded in culturally responsive pedagogy. Courses she teaches include qualitative internet research and applied AI literacies in Information Practice.