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Olof Sundin

@olofsundin.bsky.social
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Professor in Information Studies at LU. ”Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy: The Crisis of Information" 2022 with J Haider tinyurl.com/2p9f63mu

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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If you are interested in "The Role of Reading and Book Culture in a Sustainable Society," please consider applying for this prestigious position at Lund University. You might end up as my colleague at the Division of ALM, Digital Cultures and Publishing Studies: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Assistant Professor with specialisation in Sustainability in Humanities or Theology
We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct and lead pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor specialised in Sustainability in Humanities or Theology, a
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Kjell Vowles @kvowles.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Looking for a fully funded PhD-student for our research project about nationalist imaginings regarding the electricity system och energy transition and how information is affected by the infrastructures of Big Tech. With @juttahaider.bsky.social and @krekberg.bsky.social www.hb.se/en/about-ub/...
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Lediga anställningar
Kul att du är intresserad av att jobba hos oss! Vid Högskolan i Borås skapas lärande, kunskap och innovation av hög internationell kvalitet och ...
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The Local Sweden @thelocalsweden.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
'Sweden is saying it wants experienced workers, but not their kids'
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'Sweden is saying it wants experienced workers, but not their kids'
Software developer Besnik Barani works at one of Sweden's biggest IT companies, while his daughter is a paid intern at Chalmers Institute of Technology. If the appeal in her teen deportation case fails, both might leave Sweden.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Everyone wants to blame the content: misinformation, bots, polarisation. That mistakes catalysts and symptoms for the underlying causes. The crisis isn’t bad information, it's that the very information infrastructure we relied on to create a shared understand of the world had changed completely.
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Gunnar Björnsson @gbjorn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Ska utvisas ensam efter att ha levt i Sverige sedan hon var fyra år - det enda liv hon rimligen har något minne av. Så här får inte ett land behandla människor som utan egen förskyllan är utelämnade till dess makt. www.mitti.se/nyheter/joma...
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Jomana, 18, skulle ta studenten i vår – nu utvisas hon
Jomana Gad bor i Upplands Väsby och utvisas från Sverige: Kompisar kämpar för att stoppa
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Linus Larsson @linuslarsson.se · 22/01/2026
Några ord om den här idén att göra sig oberoende av amerikanska techbolag. Omöjligt, men kanske måste vi ändå försöka. www.dn.se/varlden/linu...
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Linus Larsson: Techbolagen har hela EU i sina klor
Att göra EU oberoende av amerikanska techbolag är i det närmaste omöjligt. Men kanske måste vi försöka ändå, skriver DN:s Linus Larsson.
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Finland-Swedish political cartoon from 1938, by Tove Jansson the creator of Moomin. Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.
Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.
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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is moving away from Microsoft and switching instead to Linux and LibreOffice www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...
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Abschied bis Herbst: Dänisches Digitalministerium kehrt Microsoft den Rücken
Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.
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Jutta Haider @juttahaider.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
👊"If AI can be built to increase consumption, then the opposite is also possible. AI could promote environmental values and reduce consumption—not the other way around" with @bjornekstrom.bsky.social & James White from @lund-university.bsky.social The Conversation theconversation.com/how-everyday...
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How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption
If AI can be built to increase consumption, then the opposite is also possible.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Det här är fortfarande aktuellt. Var är ni nyfikna Sv/So-lärare och skolbibliotekarier?
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Är du lärare i sve/sva eller SO-ämnen (7-9, gy), eller skolbibliotekarie, som vill bidra med en timme av din tid per termin till ett forskningsprojekt om informationssökning och AI? I så fall söker vi dig, oavsett var du bor i landet. Mer information finns i bifogad fil. Dela gärna vidare!
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Jutta Haider @juttahaider.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
GenAI models come with 'Acceptable Use Policies'. They prescribe what is acceptable and what is not, like harassment discrimination, child harm, violence, fraud, spam etc. Good! But what’s almost never considered unacceptable? Harming the environment! We argue that this must change 👊 rdcu.be/eLiTR
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Foundation models’ acceptable use policies disregard the environment and nature
Nature Machine Intelligence - Foundation models’ acceptable use policies disregard the environment and nature
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Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design" by Jutta Haider et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053... AI-driven platforms normalize high-emission lifestyles, calls for redesign.
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Jutta Haider @juttahaider.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We need to start calling out big tech for their algorithmically faciltated emissions and their climate collapse by design default. Read our comment in Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design - Jutta Haider, Malte Rödl, James White, 2025
This commentary discusses the role of increasingly artificial intelligence-infused big tech platforms in facilitating and normalising high-emission lifestyles a...
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I ended up for a conference in Paris in all places when Europe isover heated. ”Educating in an uncertain world: A global challenge”: journals.openedition.org/ries/18128
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Navigating media and information literacy in the age of AI: a view ...
How would a student in 2025 go about finding information for a school assignment about the country of Taiwan? This could be an assignment in a Swedish school where students have to find and analyse...
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I had a great discussion with @neilselwyn.bsky.social about handling disinformation in schools! Now out for anyone interested.
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
$4 million funding to Princeton University's climate research ended because: - "climate scenarios fosters fear rather than rational, balanced discussion" - analysis of climate impacts on water availability "perpetuate […] narratives [that] does not align with the priorities of this Administration"
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 09/04/2025
For @thebulwark.bsky.social, I wrote about why I decided to testify before Congress on the censorship lie. This hearing had everything: -sexism -references to Goebbels -posthumous rehabilitation of McCarthy In other words, another day in today’s GOP 🫠 www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...
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Republicans Are Obsessed with a Censorship Lie
They’re even eager to namedrop Goebbels—but they blithely ignore the urgent First Amendment threats posed by Trump.
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I am very pleased to announce that Prof. Dr Anne Beaulieu will be the first keynote speaker at the Inaugural Conference of the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON2025) in Hamburg in September.
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I am very happy to share that 18th of March @juttahaider.bsky.social and I will discuss our book Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy with Professor David Buckingham in this webinar. It is open for everyone, so please register and join us. iame.education/webinar-beyo...
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Next webinar : Beyond easy answers: media literacy and information dis …
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Jutta Haider @juttahaider.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I am on my way to an expert meeting in Geneva on mis- and disinformation to talk about "The crisis of information" and I seriously don't know how to frame this anymore, other than we are beyond crisis, it's now a catastrophe👇
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Johan Östling @johanostling.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Call for Papers: The Standing Working Group "History of Knowledge in the History of Education" invites submissions to the upcoming conference ISCHE 46 in Lille, 8–11 July 2025 (or 15–16 July, online). More information: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/11/13/c...
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
On my way to Stockholm and to give a presentation for school librarians. The best audience you can have!
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Klimatgranskaren @handle.invalid · 03/09/2024
17 miljarder i bensinbonus, slopad elbilsbonus och en kapad reduktionsplikt: Nu minskar elbilsförsäljningen på bred front.
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Efter regeringens bensinbonusar: Elbilar backar igen - Klimatgranskaren
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
Mycket trevligt samtal med @degrell.bsky.social om min nya bok!
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
Debattartikel av @juttahaider.bsky.social och mig om hur möjligheter till källkritik urholkas www.dn.se/debatt/utan-...
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DN Debatt. "Utan tillit betyder källkritik närmast ingenting"
Två professorer om risker när lögnen som politisk strategi normaliseras. Källkritik är ingen magisk kraft – när tilliten raseras öppnar vi för externa hot.
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Ny bok på svenska (tänkt som kursbok) just från trycket. Vad kan källkritik göra när ”Samtiden präglas av sociala mediers flöden, algoritmernas enorma makt och samtidigt osynlighet, och en framväxande generativ AI:s kapacitet att sprida lögner, påhittade historier och videor”.
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Redan är detta långt ner i nyhetsvärderingen och JÅ ges sista ordet. Ledsamt att det inte ens förvånar.
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
Tänk att det gått så långt att detta inte dominerar alla nyhetssändningar. Alla vet redan, ingen är förvånad, trots att det egentligen är en praktskandal som borde få direkta konsekvenser www.dn.se/kultur/malin...
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Malin Ullgren: Trollfabrikerna bevisar att lögnen är SD:s partisjäl
”Kalla fakta” visar hur SD använder sig av nättroll. Det går inte att förneka längre, vare sig för Åkesson eller för Kristersson, skriver Malin Ullgren.
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
A call for publicly controlled search www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Looking for a fully funded PhD position in Information Studies in a friendly and dynamic research environment? If so, Lund University has this opening: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Fruktansvärda fel på regnet @axljka.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Alla 50-talisters liv: 1. Missade andra världskriget. 2. Går in på första bästa arbetsplats. ”Tjena, behöver ni en VD?” 3. Får jobbet. 4. Köper en villa för 100 kr. 5. Går i pension vid 62. ”Åh nej, får 50 spänn mindre i pension än jag hade i lön.” 6. Dör innan jorden går under.
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Jutta Haider @juttahaider.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
🎉 Happy publication day indeed! 📚🎉 The "Information literacy through theory" book is out!!! I have contributed a chapter on Sociomateriality, co-authored with @olofsundin.bsky.social
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Delighted to share that Lund University (Sweden) will advertise a fully funded (Swedish style) doctoral position in Information Studies on 15 January 2024. Keep your eyes open for the announcement and/or contact me if you are interested.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
"...what had been conceived as a bottom-up movement founded on principles of voluntarism morphed into a top-down system of command and control, and open access evolved into an oppressive bureaucratic process that has failed to address either the affordability or equity problems."
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Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?: An Interview with Richard Poynder - The Scholarly Kitc...
Noted journalist and scholarly communication observer Richard Poynder explains why he has given up on the open access movement.
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Do you want to work with my colleagues in digital cultures at Lund University? Associate Senior Lecturer in Humanities specialising in Digital cultures or language/cognition/culture lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Linus Larsson @linuslarsson.se · 24/11/2023
www.dn.se/kultur/dagst...
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Dagstidning med koppling till högerradikala rörelser storsatsar i Sverige
Tidningen ingår i ett globalt medienätverk som sprider konspirationsteorier och som startades av Falun gong-rörelsen.
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
– Det känns tråkigt att lyfta det negativa, men det är viktigt att se hela frågans komplexitet. Det här är inte som att hitta rastvakter TT-artikel om hur bemanning på skolbiblioteken som regeringen lovat ska lösas där Silvia Ernhagen och jag intervjuas www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/...
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Reklamdöden @reklamdoden.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
VARFÖR HAR MAN INTE LETAT DÄR INNAN????!!!! INKOMPETENSEN!!!
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Anna Jobin @annajobin.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
(1/2) Research on Generative AI should be anchored "in the long tradition of search engine research in the information sciences. The wheel does not need to be re-invented, but it needs to be adapted to new and emerging challenges." - D. Lewandowski, @juttahaider.bsky.social, O. Sundin
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
On my way to Skolbibliotek Syd 25 years jubilee. School librarians, the most important job of them all
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
The cheesy title of my Zoom seminar presentation at the Digital History Seminar, Stockholm University, next Tuesday 17 Oct: ”Search engines and the control of information: What Umberto Eco’s the Name of the Rose tells us about Google and ChatGPT”
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
I got this email inviting me to be a part the NSF funded project Measuring Internet Politics. However, my indepth knowledge of the situation in Seychelles the is very limited … ”we would like to invite you to be one of the Country Experts for Seychelles.” Will NSF fund a vacation there?
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
This is really interesting: ”Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search” @danielsgriffin.bsky.social AI experiment leaked from the lab!
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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Så är det: www.sydsvenskan.se/2023-10-05/n... Ska man behöva vara rädd för att klimatrörelsen ska terrorstämplas?
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2023
The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was – in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.7C to 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.
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Johan Östling @johanostling.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
NEW CALL: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge. We invite scholars to come to Lund 8–19 April, 2024, to interact with other historians of knowledge. The last day of application is 1 November, 2023. newhistoryofknowledge.com/visiting-fel...
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