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By Isto Huvila, 21 May, 2015

Studying games from the viewpoint of information

By Isto Huvila, 16 February, 2015

Managing information and knowledge is (child's) play, no, game?

CC by https://www.flickr.com/photos/malias/73169727One of the hottest buzzwords of business research is gamification. Similarly to many other terms from Web 2.0 to BPR, and well yes, knowledge management, it is offered as a miracle cure to problems organisations are facing today and a recipe for success to make a day tomorrow.

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Forthcoming presentations

  • Keynote at Digital Heritage Summit 2026
  • Information practices are environmental
  • Session: Archaeological data work: Interdisciplinary perspectives to interdisciplinary practices
  • Tracing interdisciplinarities of archaeological data work: identifying and turning evidence visible

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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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