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Perceptions and Implications of User Participation and Engagement in Libraries, Archives and Museums

Submitted by Isto Huvila on Wed, 09/09/2020 - 06:53
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Bibliotekarien, biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap och digital humaniora

Submitted by Isto Huvila on Thu, 06/07/2018 - 19:45
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Change and stability in archives, libraries and museums: mapping professional experiences in Sweden

Submitted by Isto Huvila on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 10:44
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Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society shows how the digitization of archaeological information, tools and workflows, and their interplay with both old and new non-digital practices throughout the archaeological information process, affect the outcomes of archaeological work, and in the end, our general understanding of the human past.

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CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE) investigates what information about the creation and use of research data that is paradata) is needed and how to capture enough of that information to make the data reusable in the future. 

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COST-ARKWORK

COST-ARKWORK is a network funded by the COST scheme that brings together the multidisciplinary work of researchers of archaeological practices in the field of archaeological knowledge production and use. The aim of the network is to make a major push forward in the current state-of-the-art in knowing how archaeological knowledge is produced, how it is used and how to maximise its positive impact in the society.

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About me

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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Recent posts

  • Development of Online Medical records and E-health services (DOME)
    1 week 1 day ago
  • Archaeological information in the digital society (ARKDIS) 2013-2018
    1 week 1 day ago
  • Taking Health Information Behaviour into Account: implications of a neglected element for successful implementation of consumer health technologies on older adults (HIBA)
    1 week 1 day ago
  • COST-ARKWORK Archaeological practices and knowledge work
    1 week 1 day ago
  • Participatory Memory Practices (POEM) - European Training Network
    1 week 1 day ago
  • CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE)
    1 week 1 day ago
  • NORDeHEALTH
    1 week 2 days ago
  • Why (on earth) this would be an infrastructure - or a boundary object?
    2 months 2 weeks ago
  • Miten voimme ottaa huomioon ikääntyvien terveystietokäyttäytymisen digitaalisten terveyspalveluiden kehittämisessä
    2 months 2 weeks ago
  • What categories are significant? Do you choose your information sources because they are (non)-digital?
    2 months 3 weeks ago

Latest Publications

Classifying Health Information Interactions and their Motivations: A Study with Older Adults and Electronic Patient Portals
Huvila, I., Eriksson-Backa, K., Hirvonen, N., & Enwald, H. (2020). Classifying Health Information Interactions and their Motivations: A Study with Older Adults and Electronic Patient Portals. (P. Bath, Jokela, P., & Sbaffi, L., Eds.). Kalmar and Sheffield: Linnaeus University, University of Sheffield.
Do you want to receive bad news through your patient accessible electronic health record? A national survey on receiving bad news in an era of digital health
Rexhepi, H., Moll, J., Huvila, I., & Åhlfeldt, R. -M. (2020). Do you want to receive bad news through your patient accessible electronic health record? A national survey on receiving bad news in an era of digital health. (P. Bath, Jokela, P., & Sbaffi, L., Eds.). Kalmar and Sheffield: Linnaeus University, University of Sheffield.
Cancer patients information seeking behaviour related to online electronic healthcare records
Rexhepi, H., Huvila, I., Åhlfeldt, R. -M., & Cajander, Å. (2020). Cancer patients information seeking behaviour related to online electronic healthcare records. (P. Bath, Jokela, P., & Sbaffi, L., Eds.). Kalmar and Sheffield: Linnaeus University, University of Sheffield.
Monstrous hybridity of social information technologies: Through the lens of photorealism and non-photorealism in archaeological visualization
Huvila, I. (2021). Monstrous hybridity of social information technologies: Through the lens of photorealism and non-photorealism in archaeological visualization. The Information Society, 37, 46-59. http://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2020.1830211
Information-making-related information needs and the credibility of information
Huvila, I. (2020). Information-making-related information needs and the credibility of information. Information Research, 25, paper isic2002. http://doi.org/10.47989/irisic2002

Forthcoming presentations

  • COST-ARKWORK Final Conference
  • Everyday Health Information Literacy and Attitudes towards Digital Health Information among Older Finnish Adults