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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, 4 March, 2020

Information at Work: Information Management in the Workplace. Edited by Katriina Byström, Jannica Heinström, and Ian Ruthven. London: Facet Publishing, 2019. 200 pp. L69.95 (paperback). (ISBN 9781783302758)

By Isto Huvila, 5 February, 2020

Use-Oriented Information and Knowledge Management: Information Production and Use Practices as an Element of the Value and Impact of Information

By Isto Huvila, 5 July, 2019

Using object biographies to understand the curation crisis: lessons learned from the museum life of an archaeological collection

By Isto Huvila, 13 June, 2019

Mapping Our Heritage: Towards a Sustainable Future for Digital Spatial Information and Technologies in European Archaeological Heritage Management

By Isto Huvila, 1 April, 2019

Management of archaeological information and knowledge in digital environment

By Isto Huvila, 18 August, 2017

What is changing in work - everything! But not necessarily because of technology.

The third edition of the biannual WORK conference, titled WORK 2017 organised by the Turku Centre for Labour Studies, University of Turku and SWiPE research consortium in Turku, Finland has collected together an impressive multidisciplinary crowd of people interested in the study of work.

By Isto Huvila, 4 July, 2016

Documentation, reports, data and the archiving and management of archeological information

Three new articles from the ARKDIS project have come out in the beginning of the summer discussing respectively the archiving and management of archaeological information in Sweden, the paradox of the how archaeological primary research data is considered highly important but only seldom used and properly archived and how archaeological documentation is changing in the digital society. Abstracts and links to the papers can be found below.

By Isto Huvila, 17 June, 2016

Understanding archaeological documentation practices

This year's ARIADNE Summer School in Digital curation of archaeological knowledge and Expert forum: The future of archaeological knowledge curation 2021-2026 (organised by prof.

By Isto Huvila, 16 June, 2016

'If we just knew who should do it', or the social organization of the archiving of archaeology in Sweden

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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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