Bonnie A. Nardi is an emeritus professor of the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where she led the TechDec research lab in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and computer-supported cooperative work.
She is well known for her work on activity theory, interaction design, games, social media, and society and technology.
Nardi has researched CSCW applications and blogging, and pioneered the study of World of Warcraft in HCI.
Nardi's book inspired the title of a UK conference Information Ecologies: the impact of new information 'species' [4] hosted, inter alia, by the UK Office of Library Networking, now known by its acronym UKOLN, and led to a keynote address by Nardi at a 1998 Library of Congress Institute on Reference Service in a Digital Age.
According to Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn's Wastebook 2010, Nardi received a $100,000 grant to "analyze and understand the ways in which players of World of Warcraft, a popular multiplayer game, engage in creative collaboration".