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I am Professor in Information Studies at Lund University. Before starting at Lund University the year 2005, I worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Borås. I have also been a part time professor at the University of Boras. I defended my PhD thesis at University of Gothenburg in 2003.
In my current research I mainly focus on the credibility of digital information, digital cultures, information seeking and learning, participatory media, and knowledge building. One issue that interests me is how established knowledge actors - such as schools, libraries, encyclopaedias, and publishers - handle the challenges of new media and people's changing expectations that come with it.
I teach in our ALM-masters programme, particularly in library and information studies. I see it as my main challenge in teaching to prepare new generations of librarians and information specialists (including archivists and museum workers) for the changes the sector(s) is undergoing.
Research
Present projects
Completed projects
- A Digitalized Historyculture
- Bibliotekarieyrkets roll och förutsättningar för utveckling av biblioteksverksamheten i Sverige (research leader)
- Big Data – small meaning – global discourses (research leader)
- Changing orders of knowledge? Encyclopaedias in transition (research leader)
- Collaboration between professionals and amateurs in the adult educational associations in Skåne Region (research leader)
- Creating trust: scholars, self-representations and online environments (research leader)
- Der Einfluss von Suchmaschinen auf die Erstellung von Informationsprodukten
- Encyclopaedias' Trustworthiness in the Digital Media Landscape (research leader)
- Environmental practices in everyday life: Lifestyle, information and change in Simrishamn
- Knowledge in a Digital World: Trust, Credibility and Relevance on the Web (research leader)
- Käll- och sökkritik i skolan (research leader)
- Out/sourcing Knowledge (research leader)
- Transforming Libraries: Openness and Control in Society’s Knowledge Provision (research leader)
- Öppna data - Faktas materialitet och fragmentarisering (research leader)
About the research
I am leading the research group ”Information practices: Communication, Culture and Society " at the Departments of Arts and Cultural Sciences. I am also a member of “The Network for Critical Information Literacy Research” as well as member of the permanent committee for “Information Seeking in Context” (ISIC). I am the project leader of “Encyclopedias in transformation and the forming of public knowledge” which is funded by Erik Philip-Sörensen foundation. I am a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Journal of Documentation.
I also a member of the “The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society” (LinCS) at University of Gothenburg and University of Borås. LinCS is a national centre of excellence funded by the Swedish Research Council (2006-cont.). Within the frame of LinCS am I project leader of "EXpertise, Authority and Control on the InterneT (EXACT): a study of the formation of source credibility in Web 2.0 environments for learning", which is funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Publications
Books (3)
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2019). Invisible Search and Online Search Engines : The ubiquity of search in everyday life. Routledge.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2017). Algoritmer : IIS internetguide. IIS Internetguide. Internetstiftelsen.
- Sundin, O. (2003). Informationsstrategier och yrkesidentitieter: sjuksköterskors relation till fackinformation vid arbetsplatsen. Skrifter från Valfrid, 25. Valfrid. Dissertation.
Editorships (3)
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2014). (Eds.) Changing Orders of Knowledge? Encyclopaedias in Transition. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, 6. Linköping University.
- Rivano Eckerdal, J. & Sundin, O. (2014). (Eds.) Medie- och informationskunnighet i en biblioteks- och informationsvetenskaplig belysning. Svensk biblioteksförening.
- 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 (29)
- Carlsson, H. & Sundin, O. (2018). À la recherche de la délégation de connaissances à l’école. Education comparée, 19, 235-259.
- Carlsson, H. & Sundin, O. (2017). Searching for delegated knowledge in elementary schools. Information Research, 22. Professor Tom Wilson.
- 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.
- Kjellberg, S., Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2016). Researchers’ use of social network sites : a scoping review. Library & Information Science Research, 38, 224-234. Elsevier.
- Sundin, O. & Carlsson, H. (2016). Outsourcing trust to the information infrastructure in schools : how search engines order knowledge in education practices. Journal of Documentation, 72, 990-1007. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Lundh, A., Francke, H. & Sundin, O. (2015). To assess and be assessed : upper secondary school students’ narratives of credibility judgements. Journal of Documentation, 71, 80-95. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Rivano Eckerdal, J. & Sundin, O. (2015). Relocating the owl of wisdom : Encyclopaedias in a life-historical perspective. Nordisk tidsskrift for informationsvitenskab- og kulturformidling, 4, 21-34. Det Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi.
- Sundin, O. (2015). Invisible Search : Information Literacy in the Swedish curriculum for compulsory schools. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 10, 193-209. Universitetsforlaget.
- 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. (2014). Akademisk vardag på en digital referensmarknad. Kulturella perspektiv - svensk etnologisk tidsskrift, 23, 49-58. Föreningen Kulturella perspektiv.
- Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2013). The networked life of professional encyclopaedias: quantification, tradition, and trustworthiness. First Monday, 18. University of Illinois.
- Francke, H. & Sundin, O. (2012). Negotiating the role of sources: Educators' conceptions of credibility in participatory media. Library & Information Science Research, 34, 169-175. Elsevier.
- Limberg, L., Sundin, O. & Talja, S. (2012). Three Theoretical Perspectives on Information Literacy. Human IT, 11, 91-128. Högskolan i Borås.
- Francke, H., Sundin, O. & Limberg, L. (2011). Debating credibility: The shaping of information literacies in upper secondary schools. Journal of Documentation, 67, 675-694. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2011). Wikipedia, heterotopi och versioner av kulturella minnen. Human IT, 11. Högskolan i Borås.
- Sundin, O. (2011). Janitors of Knowledge: Constructing Knowledge in the Everyday Life of Wikipedia Editors. Journal of Documentation, 67, 840-862. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Sundin, O., Francke, H. & Limberg, L. (2011). Practicing Information Literacy in the Classroom: Policies, Instructions, and Grading. Dansk biblioteksforskning, 7, 7-17. Danmarks biblioteksskole.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2010). Beyond the legacy of the Enlightenment? Online encyclopaedias as digital heterotopias. First Monday, 15. University of Illinois.
- Sundin, O. & Francke, H. (2009). In search of credibility: Pupils’ information practices in learning environments. Information Research, 14. Professor Tom Wilson.
- Sundin, O. (2008). Negotiations on information-seeking expertise: A study of web-based tutorials for information literacy. Journal of Documentation, 64, 24-44. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Sundin, O., Limberg, L. & Lundh, A. (2008). Constructing librarians’ information literacy expertise in the domain of nursing. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 40, 21-30. SAGE Publications Inc..
- Johannisson, J. & Sundin, O. (2007). Putting discourse to work: Information practices and the professional project of nurses. Library Quarterly, 77, 199-218. University of Chicago Press.
- Limberg, L. & Sundin, O. (2006). Teaching information seeking: relating information literacy education to theories of information behaviour. Information Research: an International Electronic Journal, 12.
- Lundh, A. & Sundin, O. (2006). Lärare och informationskompetens: från utbildningspraktik till yrkespraktik. Dansk biblioteksforskning, 2, 5-14. Danmarks biblioteksskole.
- Hedemark, Å., Hedman, J. & Sundin, O. (2005). Speaking of users: on User discourses in the field of public libraries. Information Research, 10. Professor Tom Wilson.
- Sundin, O. (2005). Webbaserad användarundervisning: ett forum för förhandlingar om bibliotekariers professionella expertis. Human IT, 7, 109-168. Högskolan i Borås.
- Sundin, O. & Johannisson, J. (2005). Pragmatism, neo-pragmatism and sociocultural theory: communicative participation as a perspective in LIS. Journal of Documentation, 61, 23-43. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Sundin, O. (2003). Towards an Understanding of Symbolic Aspects of Professional Information: An Analysis of the Nursing Knowledge Domain. Knowledge Organization, 30, 170-194. Ergon Verlag.
- Sundin, O. (2002). Nurses' information seeking and use as participation in occupational communities. New Review of Information Behaviour Research, 3, 187-202. Taylor Graham.
Book chapters (17)
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (submitted). Wikipedia and Wikis. In O'neil, M., Penzold, C. & Toupin, S. (Eds.) Wiley Handbooks in Communication and Media Series. Wiley.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2019). How Do you Trust? : On Infrastructural Meaning-making and the Need for Self-reflection. In Carlsson, U. (Ed.) (pp. 107-107). University of Gothenburg and UNESCO.
- Haider, J., Sundin, O. & Andersson Schwarz, J. (2019). Algoritmernas roll i plattformssamhället : Vad är algoritmer, och vad gör dem till så viktiga komponenter i plattformssamhället?. In Andersson Schwarz, J. & Larsson, S. (Eds.) (pp. 90-113). Fores.
- Sundin, O. (2018). Den pedagogiska bibliotekarien : Från källkritik till källtillit. In Hansson, J. & Wisselgren, P. (Eds.) (pp. 103-123). BTJ Förlag.
- Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2018). Källkritik, självkritik och källtillit. In Carlsson, U. (Ed.) (pp. 59-61). Nordicom.
- Sundin, O. (2017). War on Terrorism-Data : A Research Note. The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University.
- Rivano Eckerdal, J. & Sundin, O. (2014). Utmaningar och möjligheter : biblioteks- och informationsvetenskapliga bidrag till medie- och informationskunnighet (MIK). In Carlsson, U. (Ed.) (pp. 141-149). Nordicom.
- Sundin, O. & Rivano Eckerdal, J. (2014). Inledning : Från informationskompetens till medie- och informationskunnighet. In Rivano Eckerdal, J. & Sundin, O. (Eds.) (pp. 9-25). Svensk biblioteksförening.
- Sundin, O. (2012). Att hantera kunskap och information i den digitala samtiden. In Carlsson, U. & Johannisson, J. (Eds.) (pp. 141-154), SOU 2012:10. Statens Offentliga Utredningar.
- Sundin, O. (2012). Förord. In Kjellberg, S., Carlsson, H., Wiklund, G., Haider, J., Lindh, K., Rivano Eckerdal, J., Sonestad, P. & Sundin, O. (Eds.) (pp. 5-9), BIVILs skriftserie 2012:1. Lunds universitet.
- Sundin, O. & Francke, H. (2011). Förändrade kunskapsformer och förnyade informationskompetenser i gymnasieskolan. Vetenskapsrådet.
- Hedman, J., Lundh, A. & Sundin, O. (2009). Att lära informationssökning för ykeslivet: Om bibliotekarier, lärare och sjuksköterskor. In Hedman, J. & Lundh, A. (Eds.) (pp. 133-158). Carlsson Bokförlag.
- Limberg, L., Sundin, O. & Talja, S. (2009). Teoretiska perspektiv på informationskompetens. In Hedman, J. & Lundh, A. (Eds.) (pp. 36-65). Carlsson Bokförlag.
- Sundin, O., Francke, H. & Andersen, J. (2009). Materialitet och remediering : konsekvenser för informationskompetens. In Hedman, J. & Lundh, A. (Eds.) (pp. 181-206). Carlsson Bokförlag.
- Hanell, F., Kronfält, E. & Sundin, O. (2006). Referencesamtalens diskurser. In Schreiber, T. & Elbeshausen, H. (Eds.) (pp. 119-139). Samfundslitteratur.
- Sundin, O. (2006). Informationskompetence, ikt og bibliotekarers professionelle ekspertise. In Schreiber, T. & Elbeshausen, H. (Eds.) (pp. 77-96). Samfundslitteratur.
- Sundin, O. & Hedman, J. (2005). Professions and occupational identities. In Fisher, K., Erdelez, S. & Mckechnie, L. (Eds.) (pp. 293-297). Information Today.
Conference contributions (22)
- Sundin, O. (2017). Critical algorithm literacies : An emerging framework.
- Sundin, O. & Schreiber, T. (2017). Is there a need for re-claiming search in information literacy practices research?.
- Sundin, O. (2015). Challenging Information Literacies for a Democratic Society.
- Sundin, O. (2015). Google i vardagen och vardagen genom Google.
- Sundin, O. (2015). Outsourcing trust to the information infrastructure : a socio-material perspective.
- Budd, J., Elmborg, J., Lloyd, A. & Sundin, O. (2014). Theoretical Foundations for Information Literacy : a Plan for Action. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 51, 1-4. ASIS&T.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2014). The materiality of encyclopedic information : Remediating a loved one – Mourning Britannica. ASIS&T AM.
- Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2013). Professional Digital Encyclopaedias as Socio-Technical Systems.
- Sundin, O. (2012). Digital information and transformed literacies: assessing credibility in schools.
- Sundin, O. (2012). Producing Contemporary Encyclopaedic Knowledge: Between Continuity and Change.
- Francke, H. & Sundin, O. (2011). New media in the classroom: Challenged notions and transformed practices?.
- Sundin, O. (2011). From the periphery to the centre: some aspects regarding the future of information literacy research.
- Francke, H. & Sundin, O. (2010). An inside view: Credibility in Wikipedia from the perspective of editors. Professor Tom Wilson.
- 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].
- Francke, H. & Sundin, O. (2009). Format Agnostics or Format Believers? How Students in High School Use Genre to Assess Credibility. ASIS&T.
- Dirndorfer Anderson, T., Francke, H., Kjellberg, S. & Sundin, O. (2008). In form & informing: Materiality and Information Seeking. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 45, 1-6. John Wiley & Sons.
- Sundin, O. (2008). Information Practices in Professional Life. Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba.
- Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2007). Debating Information Control in Web 2.0: The Case of Wikipedia vs. Citizendium. ASIS&T.
- Sundin, O. (2006). Professionalism and LIS: (Re)constructing the Librarian and the User. In Kjertmann Jensen, J., Hagen Tomasen, K., Westring Sörensen, M. L., Sarp Hansen, T. B. & Rasmussen, L. T. (Eds.) (pp. 11-16). Tallinn University, Depertment of Information Studies & Royal School of Library and Information Science.
- Sundin, O. (2005). Conflicting Approaches to User Information Seeking Education in Scandinavian Web-Based Tutorials. In Grove, A. (Ed.) Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 42. ASIS&T.
- Sundin, O. & Johannisson, J. (2005). The instrumentality of information needs and relevance. In Crestani, F. & Ruthwen, I. (Eds.) (pp. 107-118). Springer.
Reports (8)
- Sundin, O. (2019). Sökkritik: En utvidgad källkritik i skolan. Skolverket.
- Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2019). Källtillit i skolans undervisning. Skolverket.
- Carlsson, H. & Sundin, O. (2018). Sök- och källkritik i grundskolan : En forskningsrapport. Lunds universitet.
- Hansson, J., Hedemark, Å., Kjellman, U., Lindberg, J., Nolin, J., Sundin, O. & Wisselgren, P. (2018). Profession, Utbildning, Forskning : Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap för en stärkt bibliotekarieprofession. Nationell Biblioteksstrategi. Kungliga biblioteket.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2016). Algoritmer i samhället. Kansliet för strategi- och samtidsfrågor, Regeringskansliet.
- Sundin, O. & Francke, H. (2016). Källkritik och nya publiceringsformer. Skolverket.
- Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2016). Sökkritik och algoritmers synlighet. Skolverket.
- Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2009). Miljöpraktiker i vardagen: Livsstil, information och förändring i Simrishamn. Centrum för Livsstilsfrågors rapportserie, 3. Centrum för Livsstilsfrågor, Region Skåne.
Newspaper articles (3)
- Sundin, O. & Linder, K. (2017). Så sätter vi stopp för ”fake news”. Aftonbladet.
- Sundin, O. (2013). Hand i hand med ökande klyftor. Helsingborgs Dagblad. Helsingborgs Dagblad.
- Sundin, O. (2012). Fortsatt förebild: Resten av Bibliotekssverige ser till Malmö för inspiration. Sydsvenska dagbladet. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
Miscellaneous (2)
- Sundin, O. (2007). Introduktion till studier av arkiv, bibliotek och museer (IABM): en introduktionskurs på ett masterprogram.
- Sundin, O. (2006). Lärandemål i Bolognaprocessen applicerade på kursen Kvalificerad webbhantering för humanister och samhällsvetare.
Supervision at Lund University (5)
- Olsson Dahlquist, L. (2019). Folkbildning för delaktighet : En studie om bibliotekets demokratiska uppdrag i en digital samtid. Lund University. Dissertation.
- Hanell, F. (2019). Lärarstudenters digitala studievardag : Informationslitteracitet vid en förskollärarutbildning. Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University. Dissertation.
- Carlsson, H. (2013). Den nya stadens bibliotek : Om teknik, förnuft och känsla i gestaltningen av kunskaps- och upplevelsestadens folkbibliotek. Lund studies in arts and cultural sciences, 3. Dissertation.
- Rivano Eckerdal, J. (2012). Information, identitet, medborgarskap : unga kvinnor berättar om val av preventivmedel. Lund University, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper.. Dissertation.
- Wiklund, G. (2007). Interaktion i forskningspraktiken : vårdvetenskapliga forskares sociala nätverk. Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Lunds universitet. Licentiate thesis.
Research portal (Lund University)
Administrative
Tasks
- Member, Forskarutbildningsnämnden, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
Teaching
Teaching autumn 2019
Other tasks and qualifications
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