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• Why do we choose the Internet instead of the doctor next door? The Internet as a site for medicines in grey zones.

• Medical humanities research node
• Digital Cultures Research Node

• Searching for facts and fiction: Mobile devices and search engines in the everyday life of young people
• Knowledge in a Digital World: Trust, Credibility and Relevance on the Web

I'm a researcher within information studies in the interdisciplinary research project Why do we choose the internet instead of the doctor next door? I defended my thesis Performing search: search engines and mobile devices in the everyday life of young people during the spring of 2021. My research intrerests are the role of search engines in everyday life and society at large.

I'm also a teacher at the master's programme in ALM the bachelor's programme in digital cultures. 

Books (1)

• Andersson, C. (2021). Performing search : Search Engines and Mobile Devices in the Everyday Life of Young People. Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences, 27. Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lunds universitet. Dissertation.
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Articles (4)

• Andersson, C. (2020). Searching and deleting : youth, impression management and online traces of search. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 72, 34-48. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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• Andersson, C. (2017). “Google is not fun” : an investigation of how Swedish teenagers frame online searching. Journal of Documentation, 73, 1244-1260. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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• Andersson, C. (2017). The front and backstage : pupils’ information activities in secondary school. Information Research, 22. Thomas Daniel Wilson.
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• 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.
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Conference contributions (2)

• Andersson, C. (2015). Teenagers and search engines : a cultural analytical approach towards information searching.
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• Andersson, C. (2015). Teenagers’ use of search engines inside and outside of school : a socio-cultural approach.

• ABMM02, ALM: Project as a Working Method
• ABMM50, Library and Information Studies: The Library as Institution, Function, and Phenomenon
• DIKA30, Digital Cultures: Project Work 3
• DIKA34, Digital Cultures: Project Management - Introduction
• TKAN08, Applied Cultural Analysis: Introduction to Applied Cultural Analysis