Elena Aversa

Post-doc Researcher & Adjunct Professor in Information Design at Polimi, Design Deparment, DensityDesign Lab. Interested in researching misleading information visualisations and their communicational features. Also pretty much interested in participatory evaluation methodologies for information visualisations.

Research

BIOLOGUE: Understanding Biodiversity Perceptions for Inclusive Dialogue

SETS: A Set-Based Architecture for Scalable, Extensible, and Transformable Knowledge Structures

Algocount. Public Perception of Algorithms in Society. Accounting for the Algorithmic Public Opinion

Supercharged by AI: Synthetic and Out of Control

Media and Information Literacy for Societal Resilience

Publications

Supercharged by AI: Information Design Approaches for a MIL Public Engagement Initiative

Elena Aversa, Michele Mauri, Angeles Briones, Andrea Benedetti. 2026. DIID. Disegno Industriale Industrial Design, 87, 98–113.

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What information designers can do for media and information literacy: a didactical approach

Elena Aversa, Gabriele Colombo, Michele Mauri, Angeles Briones. 2026. 18th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 1, 1–8. Valencia: IATED Academy.

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Misleading information visualisations as a tool of info-warfare: How the same visualisations attract floating narratives of the Russia-Ukraine war parties

Elena Aversa, Anja Bechmann. 2025. First Monday, 30(12), 1–216.

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VisuaLies: Towards a Classification of Misinfovis Situations

Elena Aversa, Michele Mauri. 2024. DIID, 2024(83), 68–79.

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A field guide to visualisation-supported information disorders for media and information literacy

Elena Aversa. 2023. Proceedings of IASDR 2023: Life-changing Design, 1–16. Milan: Design Research Society.

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Does seeing entail believing? Visualising information during societal crises

Elena Aversa, Michele Mauri. 2023. Proceedings of Nordes 2023: This Space Intentionally Left [Blank], 1, 24–33. Norrköping: Nordes.

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Making posters to understand statistics: towards a didactical approach in communication design

Michele Mauri, Simone Vantini, Beatrice Gobbo, Tommaso Elli, Elena Aversa, Andrea Benedetti, Angeles Briones, Gabriele Colombo. 2022. DRS2022: Bilbao, 1–18.

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Staging and storing data sprint-based research results: a communication design approach

Beatrice Gobbo, Angeles Briones, Elena Aversa, Tommaso Elli, Andrea Benedetti, Michele Mauri, Gabriele Colombo. 2022. Dígitos, 1(8), 87–108.

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