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Genres and situational appropriation of information

Submitted by Isto Huvila on Wed, 09/25/2019 - 14:29
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Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society shows how the digitization of archaeological information, tools and workflows, and their interplay with both old and new non-digital practices throughout the archaeological information process, affect the outcomes of archaeological work, and in the end, our general understanding of the human past.

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CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE) investigates what information about the creation and use of research data that is paradata) is needed and how to capture enough of that information to make the data reusable in the future. 

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About me

Isto Huvila

(né Isto Vatanen)
Professor in
Information Studies

Department of ALM
Uppsala University

Docent (adjunct professor) in information management
Information studies
Åbo Akademi University

Isto Huvila is working on management and organisation of what we know and how we know in contexts ranging from social media to more traditional arenas of learning and working. My special areas of expertise are organisational information, social media, health, archives, libraries, museums and cultural heritage.

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Recent posts

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  • COST-ARKWORK Archaeological practices and knowledge work
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Latest Publications

Monstrous hybridity of social information technologies: Through the lens of photorealism and non-photorealism in archaeological visualization
Huvila, I. (2021). Monstrous hybridity of social information technologies: Through the lens of photorealism and non-photorealism in archaeological visualization. The Information Society, 37, 46-59. http://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2020.1830211
Information-making-related information needs and the credibility of information
Huvila, I. (2020). Information-making-related information needs and the credibility of information. Information Research, 25, paper isic2002. http://doi.org/10.47989/irisic2002
Guest editorial
Huvila, I., Ilhan, A., & Dorsch, I. (2020). Guest editorial. Aslib Journal Of Information Management, 72, 441-444. http://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-07-2020-372 (Original work published nov)
Librarians on User Participation in Five European Countries / Perspectives de bibliothécaires sur la participation des utilisateurs dans cinq pays européens
Huvila, I. (2020). Librarians on User Participation in Five European Countries / Perspectives de bibliothécaires sur la participation des utilisateurs dans cinq pays européens. Canadian Journal Of Information And Library Science, 43, 127-157. Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/772363
Boundary objects in Information Science
Huvila, I., Anderson, T. D., Jansen, E. H., McKenzie, P., & Worrall, A. (2017). Boundary objects in Information Science. Jasist, 68, 1807-1822. http://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23817

Forthcoming presentations

  • COST-ARKWORK Final Conference
  • Everyday Health Information Literacy and Attitudes towards Digital Health Information among Older Finnish Adults