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By Isto Huvila, 11 December, 2016

Beyond interpretivism but where?

What comes after interpretivism, dichotomisation of the social and technological, is sociomaterialism, ANT, activity theory, or something else the answer to the theoretical headache of trying to figure out what happens out there with different types of things, independent of them being something or non-something, or attempting to hold back the lure of making dichotomies, merely something.

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Latest Publications

Conclusion: Workplace Information Literacy as the Literacy of the Digital Workplace
Huvila, I., Ahmad, F., Widén, G., & Teixeira, J. (2023). Conclusion: Workplace Information Literacy as the Literacy of the Digital Workplace. In G. Widén & Teixeira, J. (Eds.), Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace (pp. 145-151). London: Facet.
Bibliotek, bildning och läsning som arena och praktik
Hedemark, Å., & Huvila, I. (2023). Bibliotek, bildning och läsning som arena och praktik. Uppsala: Institutionen för ABM, Uppsala universitet. Retrieved from https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-501233
Revisiting Metagames and Metagaming: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
Huvila, I. (2023). Revisiting Metagames and Metagaming: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. Informatio, 28, 336-370. http://doi.org/10.35643/info.28.1.12
Svar – Isto Huvila
Huvila, I. (2022). Svar – Isto Huvila. In S. Edquist, Huvila, I., & Lind, A. -S. (Eds.), Makten över information: en brevbok (pp. 41-42, ). Uppsala: Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om religion och samhälle (CRS), Uppsala Universitet. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-494980
Makten över information: en brevbok
Lind, A. -S. (2022). Makten över information: en brevbok. (S. Edquist & Huvila, I., Eds.). Uppsala: Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om religion och samhälle (CRS), Uppsala Universitet. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-494980

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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  
Åbo 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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