Information Studies
Information Studies at Lund University concerns the study of the production, organization, storage, dissemination and use of information in its material forms and the institutions, such as libraries, where these activities take place. Information Studies also includes the cultural, social and technical conditions related to these activities, processes and institutions. Information Studies has links with other disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and technology. The research environment in Lund is characterized by an international orientation and is enriched by numerous well-established contacts inside and outside the academy.
Information Studies at Lund University is based in a human cultural science tradition with a particular emphasis on the study of contemporary phenomena, not least those connected to digitization.
Research is conducted within the research group "Information Practices: Communication, Culture and Society." Currently, two adjacent and partly overlapping research themes can be identified. These are:
Practices
The focus of this research theme is on the social and cultural practices that relate to information in its material forms. This research draws frequently, but not solely, on practice theory, of which a broad understanding is adopted, and focuses on practices in everyday situations, such as in or in relation to the workplace or educational settings. This may, for example, involve information searching or evaluation of information sources in these different contexts.Institutions
The focus of this research theme is on institutions that mediate and, in some cases, produce information. Public and academic libraries are of particular interest. This research connects to the traditions of cultural and information policy studies and explores how cultural institutions, shaped during modernity, navigate an increasingly experience-oriented and, due to the internet, competitive market of cultural events and digital information. International guest researchers and doctoral candidates visit regularly and contribute to the research environment. Researchers and graduate students actively participate in networks, conferences and other collaborations, often in international contexts. Our department is part of NORSLIS (Nordic Research School in Information Studies), a network for researchers in the Nordic and Baltic countries, and the doctoral program has a formal cooperation agreement with the doctoral program in Information Studies at Uppsala University. Our researchers regularly act as expert reviewers, advisers and board or committee members for journals, book series and conferences. They are also actively involved in networks and associations such as International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS), The International Information Literacies Research Network, Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) and the American Society for Information Science & Technology. We cooperate with libraries in the region, such as Malmö City Library and Lund University Libraries (LUB), as well as with Kultur Skåne.
Cecilia Andersson, Senior Lecturer
Jessica Enevold, Senior Lecturer
Lisa Engström, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Britta Geschwind, Researcher
Carin Graminius, Researcher
Karin Gustavsson, Researcher
Charlotte Hagström, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
Julia Håkansson, Postdoctoral Fellow
Ann-Sofie Klareld, Senior Lecturer
Sara Kärrholm, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Björn Magnusson Staaf, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Victoria Martinez, Researcher
Nafiseh Mousavi, Senior Lecturer
Julia Pennlert, Researcher
Moa Petersén, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
Johanna Rivano Eckerdal, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Pelle Snickars, Professor
Olof Sundin, Professor
Kristofer Rolf Söderström, Postdoctoral Fellow
Karen Louise Grova Søilen, Associate Senior Lecturer
Sara Tanderup Linkis, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Tanja Wiehn, Associate Senior Lecturer
Robert Willim, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
- AIR Lund - Artificially Intelligent use of Registers
- Ambiguous Spaces: Cultural Imaginaries of Privacy in the 21st Century (Karen Louise Grova Søilen)
- Barn i beredskap: Svensk beredskapspedagogik i förändring 1945–2000 (Björn Lundberg)
- Barn och ungas vägar ut i världspolitiken
- Conceptualizing Empire: Using Digital Tools to Evaluate Historical Language Use about Colonialism
- Digital vold i hjemmet - en undersøgelse af udbredelsen af brugen af delte digitale enheder til psykisk vold og chikane
- FIREBURN: Revolt, Representations and Remembrance from 1878 to the present
- Follow Me: The Influence of Danish Digital Media Creators
- Försök med arbetsplatsbibliotek - Makt, vetande och den uppsökande biblioteksverksamheten (Olof Risberg)
- Future Society and Democracy in Europe
- Home Control (Karen Louise Grova Søilen)
- House Dreams. From Folkhem to Property Development
- Infrastructuring the Social: Public Libraries and their Transformative Capacity in Austerity Urbanism (Johanna Rivano Eckerdal)
- Kris och krigsberedskap för alla? - Bibliotek som arenor för samtalscirklar om beredskap (Lisa Engström)
- LibPrepare
- Libraries handling risk – to manage safety and enable trust
- Lyssningsnjutningar: Sexuell hälsa och ljudfiktion i den digitala intimitetens tid
- Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence
- Meetings with the Manosphere? Navigating Masculinity in an Algorithmically Personalised Information Infrastructure (Amanda Persson)
- Mellan ljud och text. Produktion, innehåll och upplevelser av multimodal ljudlitteratur. (Sara Tanderup Linkis)
- Memory as territory of resistance: archival practices and activism in lesbian archives
- MISTRA Environmental Communication
- Modern Times 1936
- Plug-and-play hallucinations in the crisis of information
- Preserving Marvels of Fandom: Constructing the Context of Marvel Cinematic Universe Fandom on Reddit and Tumblr
- Prompting the prompter’s imaginations: how visual generative AI comes to matter (Ben Hogan)
- Reading by listening in academia: students' talking book and text-to-speech usage in higher education (Karin Lundin)
- Researching the transforming landscape of information seeking. AI technologies and learning in Swedish schools (Olof Sundin)
- Search engines and the order of knowledge: Cultural perspectives on search engines in society (Olof Sundin)
- The Future of Human Rights in a Digitised Age (Lena Halldenius)
- The Nordic Disinformation Resilience Network (Elzbieta Drazkiewicz)
- The role of contemporary Big Science facilities in the dynamics and productivity of science
- Traditioner i Sverige 2.0 (Gabriella Nilsson)
- Welfare State Analytics. Text Mining and Modeling Swedish Politics, Media & Culture, 1945-1989
- Who is the expert? Generative AI as a site for negotiating expertise, evidence and trust in datafied society (Olof Sundin)
- A Digitalized Historyculture
- Algorithms and Literacies: Young people's understanding and society's expectations (Olof Sundin)
- Algoritmmedvetenhet i mötet mellan generationer (Olof Sundin)
- A New Normal is Constantly Emerging - Probing The Cultural Dimensions of AI and XR-technologies
- Antologi med fokus på praktisk pedagogisk utveckling i pandemitider
- Bibliotekarieyrkets roll och förutsättningar för utveckling av biblioteksverksamheten i Sverige (Olof Sundin)
- Big Data – small meaning – global discourses (Olof Sundin)
- Brott lönar sig. Kriminallitteraturförfattaren som föregångare på den svenska bokmarknaden
- Cash – Human rights and social sustainability in the transition to a cashless society (Lena Halldenius)
- Changing orders of knowledge? Encyclopaedias in transition (Olof Sundin)
- Collaboration between professionals and amateurs in the adult educational associations in Skåne Region (Olof Sundin)
- Creating trust: scholars, self-representations and online environments (Olof Sundin)
- Cultural Policies at public libraries in Scania (Johanna Rivano Eckerdal)
- Delaktighet i folkbibliotek: krav eller möjlighet?
- DigiJustice: Rethinking Digital Inequalities and Human Rights in the Age of AI
- “Don't Take it Personal” - Privacy and information in an algorithmic age
- Encyclopaedias' Trustworthiness in the Digital Media Landscape (Olof Sundin)
- Environmental practices in everyday life: Lifestyle, information and change in Simrishamn
- Fair Game, The Colloquium, Game Jam and Lectures (Jessica Enevold)
- FOLIO - Forum för litteraturens offentligheter (Anders Ohlsson)
- Folkbiblioteken i ett förändrat politiskt landskap – ett demokratiuppdrag för en ny tid?
- Folkbiblioteken i ett förändrat politiskt landskap – ett demokratiuppdrag för en ny tid?
- Framtidsdialoger
- Framtidsdialoger, del 2
- Game Studies - Journal Grant (Jessica Enevold)
- Girlvirus? information practices regarding HPV-vaccination in Swedish school healthcare (Johanna Rivano Eckerdal)
- Human Rights, Digital Inequalities, and Social Consequences of AI - ASG, Pufendorf IAS
- Information practices regarding HPV vaccination in Swedish school healthcare (Johanna Rivano Eckerdal)
- In Search of Search and its Engines - Theme, Pufendorf IAS (Olof Sundin)
- Käll- och sökkritik i skolan (Olof Sundin)
- Knowledge in a Digital World: Trust, Credibility and Relevance on the Web (Erik J Olsson, Olof Sundin)
- Konst för en stad i förändring - de offentliga gestaltningarnas betydelse för social hållbarhet
- Kvalitetslitteratur för den törstande ungdomen. Paketering, läsfrämjande- och marknadsföringsstrategier bakom Barnbiblioteket Sagas bokserier för ungdomar.
- Lokalsamhällets bibliotek - kan meröppet öppna dörrar?
- Museums in transformation (Björn Magnusson Staaf)
- Öppna data - Faktas materialitet och fragmentarisering (Olof Sundin)
- Out/sourcing Knowledge (Olof Sundin)
- Public libraries as culture centers (Johanna Rivano Eckerdal)
- Public libraries as culture centers, part 2 (Johanna Rivano Eckerdal)
- Pufendorf ASG: How Evidence Based Practices Handle Conflicting Knowledge: the Case of Hormonal Contraceptives (CON-X) (Moa Petersén, Johanna Rivano Eckerdal)
- Ritualernas marknad. En studie av livscykelrit och upplevelseindustri.
- Searching for facts and fiction: Mobile devices and search engines in the everyday life of young people (Cecilia Andersson)
- Small woods where I met myself: Jerry Uelsmann's first 50 years
- Stadshistoria och fiktion - oskuldens museum (Björn Magnusson Staaf)
- Staffless libraries (Johanna Rivano Eckerdal)
- Studerandeaktiverande och interaktiv undervisning på campus såväl som online
- Styrdokumentens betydelser och gestaltningar i ett förändrat bibliotekslandskap
- Svensk hågkomst av Förintelsen - museer, politik och materialitet
- Swedish biohacking
- The Archaeology of Time Travel
- The transformation of scholarly communication - ASG, Pufendorf IAS
- The Value of a Female Crime Writer (Sara Kärrholm)
- Transforming Libraries: Openness and Control in Society’s Knowledge Provision (Olof Sundin)
- Vägra döda, vägra värnplikt! - en studie av värnpliktsvägrarfrågan i kultur- och samhällsdebatten och inom fredsrörelsen i Sverige ca 1965-91
- War remains. The corporeal witness and 20th century media history (Marie Cronqvist)
- Waterfront heritage and waterfront renewal
- Why do we choose the Internet instead of the doctor next door? The Internet as a site for medicines in grey zones. (Susanne Lundin)
- With history as compass (Björn Magnusson Staaf)
- Young women's evaluation of information sources before choosing a contraceptive: information literacy practices (Johanna Rivano Eckerdal)