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By Isto Huvila, 24 May, 2020

Information science should be amplifying contradictions, too

Recently, I happened to stumble upon an interesting piece, written by Amanda Ripley already for a couple of years ago, on how journalists should start making a push to present the complexity of the matters they are reporting -- and stop trying to simplify everything to death. Extreme simplicity that has become the gold standard of how news stories and everything else is reported in the professional and social media alike needs to go away.

By Isto Huvila, 31 January, 2018

Alternatives to Being Information Literate

By Isto Huvila, 11 June, 2016

Information specialists, knowledge management, information literacy -- and information

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to have an enjoyable discussion with Johanna Lahtinen about her doctoral thesis Information specialists’ roles and activities in collaborative development projects between education and working life: a case study of the formation of knowledge practices and innovative knowledge communities (summary is available in English) at her public viva.

By Isto Huvila, 2 November, 2012

Information Services and Digital Literacy: In search of the boundaries of knowing

The book has been reviewed by Lynn Allardyce Irvine in Library Review, Vol. 62 Iss: 6/7 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/LR-04-2013-0052, Michelle McLean in the The Australian Library Journal, Vol. 63, Iss: 1, pp. 64-65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2013.878275 and Jane Mansfield in the Journal of Information Literacy, 7(1), pp.107-108.

By Isto Huvila, 7 December, 2011

The Complete Information Literacy? Unforgetting Creation and Organisation of Information

information literacy

Forthcoming presentations

  • Keynote: Against context: information habitats and what it takes for something to inform
  • Panel: Bridging Across Boundaries: The Reaches and Limits of Scholarly Publishing in Information Science
  • Panel: Crossing Virtual Boundaries: Trends in 3D and VR Research in Information Science
  • Arkivvetenskapen och Riksarkivet – igÃ¥r, idag och imorgon

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Isto Huvila

(né Isto Vatanen)  
Professor in  
Information Studies  
Department of ALM  
Uppsala University

Docent (adjunct professor) in information management  
Information studies  
Ã…bo 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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