Andrew Iliadis

Biography

Andrew Iliadis is an Associate Professor at Temple University in the Department of Media Studies and Production (within the Klein College of Media and Communication) and serves on the faculties of the Media and Communication Doctoral Program, Cultural Analytics Graduate Certificate Program, and Science, Technology, and Society Network. His work focuses on the social implications of data science with specific interests in semantic computing (things like metadata, web schemas, knowledge graphs, applied ontologies) and embodied computing (things like wearables, embeddables, ingestibles, implantables). He maintains an active research agenda and has work published in New Media & Society, Communication Theory, The Information Society, Global Media and Communication, Big Data & Society, Philosophy & Technology, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Journal of Communication Pedagogy, and Online Information Review, among others. His latest books are Cybernetics and the Origin of Information (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), Semantic Media: Mapping Meaning on the Internet (Polity, 2022), and Embodied Computing: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles (MIT Press, 2020).

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Publications

Books

Iliadis, A. (2025). Autonomous defense: How tech companies are crafting and cashing in on the future of warfare. Under contract.

Ruyer, R. (2023). Cybernetics and the origin of information (A. Berger-Soraruff, A. Iliadis, D. W. Smith, & A. Woodward, Trans.). Rowman & Littlefield. (Original work published ca. 1954) https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614971/Cybernetics-and-the-Origin-of-Information

Iliadis, A. (2022). Semantic media: Mapping meaning on the internet. Polity. https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=semantic-media-mapping-meaning-on-the-internet--9781509542574

Pedersen, I. & Iliadis, A. (Eds.). (2020). Embodied computing: Wearables, implantables, embeddables, ingestibles. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/embodied-computing

Recent Articles

Iliadis, A. (2025). Semantic network analysis of web infrastructure. In M. Bastos & L. Rossi (Eds.), The Handbook of Social and Communication Networks. Edward Elgar.

Iliadis, A., & Acker, A. (2024). The Palantir Files: Public interest archives for platform accountability. Information, Communication & Society, 27(13), 2343–2365. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2352624

Ford, H., & Iliadis, A. (2023). Wikidata as semantic infrastructure: Knowledge representation, data labor, and truth in a more-than-technical project. Social Media + Society, 9(3), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231195552

Iliadis, A., Lokot, T., & Siapera, E. (Eds.). (2023). Decolonising the internet: An introduction to the #AoIR2022 special issue. Information, Communication & Society, 26(12), 2369-2375. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2262554

Iliadis, A., & Ford, H. (2023). Fast facts: Platforms from personalization to centralization. Social Media + Society, 9(3), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231195546

Iliadis, A. (2023). Critical and cultural approaches to human-machine communication. In A. L. Guzman, R. McEwen & S. Jones (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of human-machine communication (pp. 117-126). Sage. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-handbook-of-human%E2%80%93machine-communication/book273648

Iliadis, A., Acker, A., Stevens, W., & Kavakli, B. (2023). One schema to rule them all: How Schema.org models the world of search. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 76(2), 460-523. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24744

Iliadis, A., & Acker, A. (2022). The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform. The Information Society, 38(5), 334-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2022.2100851

Iliadis, A., Liao, T., Pedersen, I., & Han, J. (2021). Learning about metadata and machines: Teaching students using a novel structured database activity. Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 4, 152-165. https://doi.org/10.31446/JCP.2021.1.14

Liao, T., & Iliadis, A. (2021). A future so close: Mapping 10 years of promises and futures across the augmented reality development cycle. New Media & Society, 23(2), 258-283. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820924623

Iliadis, A. (2020). Computer guts and swallowed sensors: Ingestibles made palatable in an era of embodied computing. In I. Pedersen & A. Iliadis (Eds.), Embodied computing: Wearables, implantables, embeddables, ingestibles (pp. 1-20). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11564.003.0003

Bencherki, N., & Iliadis, A. (2019). The constitution of organization as informational individuation. Communication Theory, 31(3), 442-462. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtz018

Iliadis, A. (2019). The Tower of Babel problem: Making data make sense with Basic Formal Ontology. Online Information Review, 43(6), 1021-1045. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-07-2018-0210

Burns, R., Hawkins, B., Hoffmann, A. L., Iliadis, A., & Thatcher, J. (2018). Transdisciplinary approaches to critical data studies (pp. 657-660). Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501074

Iliadis, A. (2018). Cyberinfrastructure. In Barney Warf (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet (pp. 140-143). Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473960367.n48

Iliadis, A. & Pedersen, I. (2018). The fabric of digital life: Uncovering sociotechnical tradeoffs in embodied computing through metadata. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 16(3), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-03-2018-0022

Iliadis, A. (2018). Algorithms, ontology, and social progress. Global Media and Communication, 14(2), 219-230. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766518776688

Iliadis, A. & Russo, F. (2016). Critical data studies: An introduction. Big Data & Society, 3(2), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716674238

Iliadis, A. (2015) The right to nonparticipation for global digital citizenship. International Review of Information Ethics, 23, 20-34. https://doi.org/10.29173/irie228