information literacy

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.

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Latest Publications

Revisiting Metagames and Metagaming: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
Huvila, I. (2023). Revisiting Metagames and Metagaming: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. Informatio, 28, 336-370. http://doi.org/10.35643/info.28.1.12
Svar – Isto Huvila
Huvila, I. (2022). Svar – Isto Huvila. In S. Edquist, Huvila, I., & Lind, A. -S. (Eds.), Makten över information: en brevbok (pp. 41-42, ). Uppsala: Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om religion och samhälle (CRS), Uppsala Universitet. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-494980 (Original work published 2022///AD)
Makten över information: en brevbok
Lind, A. -S. (2022). Makten över information: en brevbok. (S. Edquist & Huvila, I., Eds.). Uppsala: Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om religion och samhälle (CRS), Uppsala Universitet. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-494980 (Original work published 2022///AD)
Den som bestämmer vad information är
Huvila, I. (2022). Den som bestämmer vad information är. In S. Edquist, Huvila, I., & Lind, A. -S. (Eds.), Makten över information: en brevbok (pp. 43-44). Uppsala: Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om religion och samhälle (CRS), Uppsala Universitet. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-494980 (Original work published 2022///AD)
LAMs and the participatory turn
Huvila, I., Johnston, J., & Roued-Cunliffe, H. (2023). LAMs and the participatory turn. In C. Rasmussen, Rydbeck, K., & Larsen, H. (Eds.), Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition: Changes, Challenges, and Convergence in a Scandinavian Perspective (pp. 158-172). Abingdon: Routledge. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003188834-15 (Original work published 2023///AD)

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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  
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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