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I am Associate Professor in Information Studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. My research interests concern digital cultures' emerging conditions for production, use and distribution of knowledge and information. This includes research on environmental information and on knowledge institutions, including encyclopedias, search engines, academic libraries and the scholarly communication system.
I teach mostly in the following areas: information policy and politics, scholarly communication, digital consumptions and communication.
I am part of the research group "Information practices: Communication, Culture and Society" and in the research network "Knowledge in a Digital World" (KDW).
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Completed projects
- ASG: Digital Society
- Big Data – small meaning – global discourses
- Changing orders of knowledge? Encyclopaedias in transition
- Creating trust: scholars, self-representations and online environments (research leader)
- Data in the making (research leader)
- Der Einfluss von Suchmaschinen auf die Erstellung von Informationsprodukten
- DigiTrust: Privacy, Identity and Legitimacy in the Digital Society
- Domesticating Climate Change (research leader)
- Encyclopaedias' Trustworthiness in the Digital Media Landscape
- Environmental practices in everyday life: Lifestyle, information and change in Simrishamn (research leader)
- Exploring challenges for New Big Science: The realization of ESS and MAX IV in Lund. (research leader)
- Green Search (research leader)
- Knowledge in a Digital World: Trust, Credibility and Relevance on the Web
- The humanities invisible data (research leader)
- The transformation of scholarly communication (research leader)
- Transforming Libraries: Openness and Control in Society’s Knowledge Provision
About the research
Associate Professor in Information Studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. Research interests: digital cultures' emerging conditions for production, use and distribution of knowledge and information. This includes research on environmental information and on knowledge institutions, including encyclopedias, search engines, academic libraries and the scholarly communication system.
Teaching: information policy and politics, scholarly communication, digital consumption and communication, digital methods.
Coordinator: Digital Cultures Research Node
Part of research group "Information practices: Communication, Culture and Society"
Publications
Books (2)
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2017). Algoritmer : IIS internetguide. IIS Internetguide. Internetstiftelsen.
- Haider, J. (2008). Open access and closed discourses: Constructing open access as a development issue. City University: London, UK. Dissertation.
Editorships (2)
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2014). (Eds.) Changing Orders of Knowledge? Encyclopaedias in Transition. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, 6. Linköping University.
- Kjellberg, S., Carlsson, H., Wiklund, G., Haider, J., Hanell, F., Lindh, K., Rivano Eckerdal, J., Sonestad, P. & Sundin, O. (2012). (Eds.) En vänbok till Birgitta Olander : tankar och erfarenheter från f d studenter. BIVILs skriftserie 2012:1. Lunds universitet.
Articles (20)
- Graminius, C. & Haider, J. (accepted/in press). Air pollution online : Everyday environmental information on the social media site Sina Weibo. Journal of Documentation. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Haider, J. (2017). Controlling the urge to search : Studying the informational texture of practices by exploring the missing element. Information Research, 22. Professor Tom Wilson.
- Haider, J. & Åström, F. (2017). Dimensions of trust in scholarly communication : problematizing peer review in the aftermath of John Bohannon’s ‘Sting’ in Science. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68, 450-467. John Wiley & Sons.
- Sundin, O., Haider, J., Andersson, C., Carlsson, H. & Kjellberg, S. (2017). The search-ification of everyday life and the mundane-ification of search. Journal of Documentation, 73, 224-243. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Haider, J. (2016). The shaping of environmental information in social media : affordances and technologies of self-control. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 10, 473-491. Taylor & Francis.
- Haider, J. (2016). The structuring of information through search : Sorting waste with Google. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 68, 390-406. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Kjellberg, S., Cox, A., Tammaro, A. M., Haider, J., Tam, W. & Matusiak, K. K. (2016). Making research data possible: negotiating between disciplinary cultures, temporalities, data policies, professional interests and education and training. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53, 1-4. John Wiley & Sons.
- Kjellberg, S., Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2016). Researchers’ use of social network sites : a scoping review. Library & Information Science Research, 38, 224-234. Elsevier.
- Haider, J. (2014). Taking the environment online : issue and link networks surrounding personal green living blogs. Online Information Review, 38, 248-264. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2014). Introduction : Changing Orders of Knowledge? Encyclopaedias in Transition. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, 6, 475-480. Linköping University Electronic Press.
- Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2013). The networked life of professional encyclopaedias: quantification, tradition, and trustworthiness. First Monday, 18. University of Illinois.
- Haider, J. (2012). Interrupting practices that want to matter. The making, shaping and reproduction of environmental information online. Journal of Documentation, 67, 639-658. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Haider, J. (2011). The environment on holidays or how a recycling bin informs us on the environment. Journal of Documentation, 67, 823-839. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2011). Wikipedia, heterotopi och versioner av kulturella minnen. Human IT, 11. Högskolan i Borås.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2010). Beyond the legacy of the Enlightenment? Online encyclopaedias as digital heterotopias. First Monday, 15. University of Illinois.
- Lindh, K. & Haider, J. (2010). Development and the documentation of indigenous knowledge: Good intentions in bad company?. Libri, 60, 1-14. De Gruyter.
- Haider, J. (2007). Of the rich and the poor and other curious minds: on open access and development. Aslib Proceedings, 59, 449-461. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Haider, J. & Bawden, D. (2007). Conceptions of 'information poverty' in LIS: a discourse analysis. Journal of Documentation, 63, 524-557. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Haider, J. & Weller, T. (2007). Where do we go from here? An opinion about the future of LIS as an academic discipline. Aslib Proceedings, 59, 475-482. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Haider, J. & Bawden, D. (2006). Pairing information with poverty. Traces of development discourse in LIS. New Library World, 107, 371-385. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Book chapters (6)
- Haider, J. (accepted/in press). Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem Representations Underpinning Open Access and Open Science. In Herb, U. & Schöpfel, J. (Eds.) Open Divide?. Litwin Books.
- Haider, J. (2017). Research data is a product of (its) time. In Kjellberg, S. & Moring, C. (Eds.) Big data - small meaning and global discourses. The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University.
- Haider, J. & Kjellberg, S. (2016). Data in the making : Temporal aspects in the construction of research data. In Rekers, J. V. & Sandell, K. (Eds.) New big science in focus : Perspectives on ESS and MAX IV (pp. 143-163), 8. Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lunds universitet.
- Haider, J. (2015). Open Access and I : The story of a long-term relationship. Openness: Politics, Practices, Poetics. Medea, Malmö University.
- Haider, J. & Åström, F. (2014). Tillit till forskningen och digitaliseringen av det vetenskapliga kommunikationssystemet: Peer review-processer och Open Access-publicering. In Larsson, S. & Runeson, P. (Eds.) DigiTrust: Tillit i det digitala : Tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv från ett forskningsprojekt (pp. 83-96). Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet.
- Haider, J. (2012). Open Access hinter verschlossenen Türen oder wie sich Open Access im und mit dem Entwicklungsdiskurs arrangiert. In Herb, U. (Ed.) Open Initiatives: Offenheit in der digitalen Welt und Wissenschaft (pp. 65-84). Universitätsverlag des Saarlandes.
Conference contributions (22)
- Haider, J. & Kjellberg, S. (2016). When are data? : Reflections on the making (possible) of research data.
- Kjellberg, S. & Haider, J. (2016). The time of data – conditions for digital knowledge production in big science.
- Haider, J. (2015). Green Search: Searching for Information on the Environment Online. [Publication information missing], 48-48.
- Haider, J. (2015). The materiality of digital technologies and the environmentally friendly self.
- Haider, J. & Kjellberg, S. (2015). Cultures of Search in the Social Study of Information. [Publication information missing], 47-47.
- Haider, J. & Kjellberg, S. (2015). Data in the making.
- Haider, J. (2014). Green Search : the shaping of information on the environment at the intersection of networked tools, nature and people.
- Haider, J. (2014). Green Search: Studying online environmental information. A research design. In Kindling, M. & Greifeneder,, E. (Eds.) iConference 2014 Proceedings (pp. 945-949). Illinois: iSchools.
- Haider, J. (2014). How library and information science can save the world and why to care! (Keynote presentation).
- Haider, J. (2014). Mis/trusting Open Access eller Open Access och jag : en kärleksrelation (keynote lecture).
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2014). The materiality of encyclopedic information : Remediating a loved one – Mourning Britannica. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 51, 1-10. ASIS&T AM.
- Haider, J., Huvila, I., Cox, A., Francke, H. & Hall, H. (2013). Transformation or continuity? The impact of social media on information: implications for theory and practice. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 49, 1-4. John Wiley & Sons.
- Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2013). Professional Digital Encyclopaedias as Socio-Technical Systems.
- Haider, J. (2012). Social media as technologies of self-control in environmentally friendly living projects.
- Haider, J. (2011). Blogging about climate-friendly soups and twittering about eco-cleaning: Practicing environmental information in social media.
- Haider, J. (2011). From 'ethical consumption' to 'ethical prosumption'? The environmental impact of everyday life, social media and doing domestic work as home work. In Albin, M., Alkan-Olsson, J., Bohgard, M., Jakobsson, K., Karlsson, B., Lundqvist, P., Ottosson, M., Rassner, F., Svensson, M. & Tinnerberg, H. (Eds.) Arbete och hälsa (pp. 31-31), 45. Sahlgrenska Academy.
- Haider, J. (2011). Longing for a greener life. Shaping and reproduction of environmental information in social media. ACSIS Publications, 6, 117-117. Linköpings universitet.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2010). Looking for the "common sense" or what a compost heap tells us about the environment.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2010). Wikipedia, heterotopia och versioner av kulturella minnen. [Publication information missing].
- Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2007). Debating Information Control in Web 2.0: The Case of Wikipedia vs. Citizendium. In Grove, A. (Ed.) Proceedings of the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 44. ASIS&T.
- Haider, J. (2006). Conceptions of 'information poverty' in LIS: an analysis of discourses. In Jenses, J. & et, a. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 14th BOBCATSSS Symposium: Information, Innovation, Responsibility: The Information Professional in the Network Society (pp. 79-89).
- Haider, J. (2005). The geographic distribution of open access journals.
Reports (4)
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2016). Algoritmer i samhället. Kansliet för strategi- och samtidsfrågor, Regeringskansliet.
- Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2016). Sökkritik och algoritmers synlighet. Skolverket.
- Guldåker, N., Haider, J., Sandberg, H., Stripple, J. & Östling, J. (2012). Att forma och leda excellenta forskningsmiljöer: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). En rapport inom ramen för kompetensutvecklingsprogrammet Morgondagens forskningsledare, 2011–2012, vid Lunds Universitet.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2009). Miljöpraktiker i vardagen: Livsstil, information och förändring i Simrishamn. Centrum för Livsstilsfrågors rapportserie, 3. Centrum för Livsstilsfrågor, Region Skåne.
Reviews (3)
- Haider, J. (accepted/in press). Review of "The Web as History". Nordicom Review, 38, 5-9. The Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research.
- Haider, J. (2008). Review of 'Understanding knowledge as a commons. From theory to practice.' edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom. Journal of Documentation, 64, 168-169. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Haider, J. (2006). Review of 'Media, technology and everyday life in Europe. From information to communication.' edited by Roger Silverstone. Journal of Documentation, 62, 544-546. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Miscellaneous (5)
- Haider, J. (2014). Discussion piece presented at Symposium "Is Google Enough - What is beyond, behind and after 'Don't be Evil'".
- Haider, J. (2012). Vanor och ovanor : miljöinformation i sociala medier. UR Samtiden - UR Play (TV).
- Haider, J. (2010). Course development plan: Open and closed at the same time? Finding the right balance and course structure to enable independent project work in the humanities.
- Haider, J. (2010). Developing a “start kit” for doctoral students at a multi-disciplinary humanities department.
- Haider, J. (2009). Discussion as a form of student-to-student interaction in web-based online learning.
Supervision at Lund University (1)
Research portal (Lund University)