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A Neo-Documentalist Lens for Exploring the Premises of Disciplinary Knowledge Making

Submitted by Isto Huvila on Thu, 06/16/2016 - 08:43
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Amalia Juneström defends her PhD thesis ”Content moderation and fact-checking" at the Department of ALM, @uppsalauni on May 27 at 10.15 CET in the Humanities Theatre, English Park Campus. The viva is held in Swedish. Download thesis (in English) at https://t.co/gE995TUlAx pic.twitter.com/ldMn2AgXgC

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) May 17, 2022

A couple of days left to apply! https://t.co/IEohrQgsu8

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) May 13, 2022

Slides for today’s keynote "Document your information work! (But why?)" at Expressions of information and communication theory and practice 2022 conf https://t.co/pR26vEKtQG org’d by @VU_LT at https://t.co/5ZKL3Juj33 @CAPTURE_ERC pic.twitter.com/8JkeVPyu79

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) April 28, 2022

Slides for my @asist_org #ASIST24HR keynote ”Relational information science?” can be found at https://t.co/ATzC1aptU8 pic.twitter.com/jxvyIHrULr

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) April 27, 2022

#EUROMED2022 conference on Cyprus Oct31-Nov4, 2022. #CfP at https://t.co/t5mf5rxxj1 Deadline Jun15. #archaeology #heritage #digitalheritage #preservation #documentation #culturalheritage

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) April 11, 2022

We are hiring at @CAPTURE_ERC ! https://t.co/WUjaq60M8c

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) April 11, 2022

Fourth day of #interparestrustai meeting featuring a workshop with Muhammad Abdul-Mageed & Peter Sullivan #ai #archives pic.twitter.com/RsMJ2cmGit

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) March 31, 2022

Submission deadline for #CAA2022 paper incl. the Traces of digital archaeological practices session extended to April 6, 2022 https://t.co/mkHsuEKlSw

— Isto Huvila (@ihuvila) March 29, 2022
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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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COST-ARKWORK

COST-ARKWORK is a network funded from 2016 to 2021 by the COST scheme that brings together the multidisciplinary work of researchers of archaeological practices in the field of archaeological knowledge production and use. The aim of the network is to make a major push forward in the current state-of-the-art in knowing how archaeological knowledge is produced, how it is used and how to maximise its positive impact in the society.

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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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    1 month 4 weeks ago
  • Panel: Disinformation in the context of health information behaviour
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Latest Publications

Everyday Health Information Literacy and Attitudes Towards Digital Health Services Among Finnish Older Adults
Eriksson-Backa, K., Ahmad, F., Huvila, I., Enwald, H., & Hirvonen, N. (2022). Everyday Health Information Literacy and Attitudes Towards Digital Health Services Among Finnish Older Adults. (S. Kurbanoğlu, Špiranec, S., Unal, Y., Boustany, J., & Kos, D., Eds.). Cham: Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_27
Improving the usefulness of research data with better paradata
Huvila, I. (2022). Improving the usefulness of research data with better paradata. Open Information Science, 6(48). http://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2022-0129
Making and taking information
Huvila, I. (2022). Making and taking information. Jasist, 73, 528-541. http://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24599
Much of information is not really that ready to use
Huvila, I. (2021). Much of information is not really that ready to use. Information Matters. Retrieved from https://informationmatters.org/2021/12/much-of-information-is-not-really-that-ready-to-use/
Figurations of Digital Practice, Craft, and Agency in Two Mediterranean Fieldwork Projects
Batist, Z., Masters, V., Torma, T., Carter, M., Ferris, N., Huvila, I., et al. (2021). Figurations of Digital Practice, Craft, and Agency in Two Mediterranean Fieldwork Projects. Open Archaeology, 7, 1731-1755. http://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0217 (Original work published jan)

Forthcoming presentations

  • Techno-politics of the interoperability of archaeological data (work)
  • Behöver patienterna fungerande system eller nyttigt information — eller både och?
  • Panel: Information behaviour research in dialogue with neighbouring fields
  • Panel: Disinformation in the context of health information behaviour