information management

By Isto Huvila, 24 May, 2020

Information science should be amplifying contradictions, too

Recently, I happened to stumble upon an interesting piece, written by Amanda Ripley already for a couple of years ago, on how journalists should start making a push to present the complexity of the matters they are reporting -- and stop trying to simplify everything to death. Extreme simplicity that has become the gold standard of how news stories and everything else is reported in the professional and social media alike needs to go away.

By Isto Huvila, 4 July, 2016

Documentation, reports, data and the archiving and management of archeological information

Three new articles from the ARKDIS project have come out in the beginning of the summer discussing respectively the archiving and management of archaeological information in Sweden, the paradox of the how archaeological primary research data is considered highly important but only seldom used and properly archived and how archaeological documentation is changing in the digital society. Abstracts and links to the papers can be found below.

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Latest Publications

Regimes of Participation: Theorising Participatory Archives from the Outset of Archivists Views on Archival Institutions and User Participation in Scandinavia
Huvila, I. . (2024). Regimes of Participation: Theorising Participatory Archives from the Outset of Archivists Views on Archival Institutions and User Participation in Scandinavia. Information Research, 29, 121–146. http://doi.org/10.47989/ir291539
On Infrastructural Speculation
Huvila, I. . (2023). On Infrastructural Speculation. Current Swedish Archaeology, 31, 39–42. http://doi.org/10.37718/CSA.2023.02
My Personal Doctor Will Not Be Replaced with Any Robot Service! : Older Adults Experiences with Personal Health Information and eHealth Services
Enwald, H. ., Eriksson-Backa, K. ., Hirvonen, N. ., & Huvila, I. . (2024). My Personal Doctor Will Not Be Replaced with Any Robot Service! : Older Adults Experiences with Personal Health Information and eHealth Services. In S. . Kurbanoğlu, S. . Špiranec, J. . Boustany, Y. . Ünal, I. . Sencan, D. . Kos, … L. . Roy (Eds.), European Conference on Information Literacy (pp. 145–157). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53001-2_13
Conceptualizing Data Needs within Contexts of Data Discoverability and Reuse: A Study of Environmental and Social Scientists
Liu, Y.-H. ., Huvila, I. ., Kaiser, J. ., Friberg, Z. ., Sköld, O. ., Andersson, L. ., … Wu, M. . (2023). Conceptualizing Data Needs within Contexts of Data Discoverability and Reuse: A Study of Environmental and Social Scientists. In IST23 Conference: Information Science Perspectives to Documenting Processes and Practices. Uppsala: ASIS&T European Chapter. http://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7937097
Users Experiences With Online Access to Electronic Health Records in Mental and Somatic Health Care: Cross-Sectional Study
Wang, B. ., Kristiansen, E. ., Fagerlund, A. ., Zanaboni, P. ., Hägglund, M. ., Bärkås, A. ., … Johansen, M. . (2023). Users Experiences With Online Access to Electronic Health Records in Mental and Somatic Health Care: Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, e47840. http://doi.org/10.2196/47840

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Isto Huvila

(né Isto Vatanen)  
Professor in  
Information Studies  
Department of ALM  
Uppsala University

Docent (adjunct professor) in information management  
Information studies  
Ã…bo 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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