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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 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.

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Latest Publications

Perspectives on Paradata: Research and Practice of Documenting Data Processes
Huvila, I. ., Andersson, L. ., & Sköld, O. . (Eds.). (2024). Perspectives on Paradata: Research and Practice of Documenting Data Processes. Cham: Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53946-6
An Introduction to Paradata
Andersson, L. ., Huvila, I. ., & Sköld, O. . (2024). An Introduction to Paradata. In I. . Huvila, L. . Andersson, & O. . Sköld (Eds.) (Vol. 13, pp. 1–14). Cham: Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53946-6_1
Dokumentation av arkeologiska arbetsprocesser underlättar framtida återanvändning av forsknings- och undersökningsdata: CAPTURE-projektet
Huvila, I. ., Juneström, A. ., Kaiser, J. ., & Sköld, O. . (2024). Dokumentation av arkeologiska arbetsprocesser underlättar framtida återanvändning av forsknings- och undersökningsdata: CAPTURE-projektet. Gjallarhorn, 43, 28–32.
Introduction: Information Matters Special Issue on Collaborative Interpretation
Huvila, I. ., c, M. ., Chen, A. ., Chassanoff, A. ., & Hodges, J. . (2024). Introduction: Information Matters Special Issue on Collaborative Interpretation. Rochester, NY. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4865526 (Original work published 2024)
Concluding Discussion: Paradata for Information and Knowledge Management
Huvila, I. ., Andersson, L. ., & Sköld, O. . (2024). Concluding Discussion: Paradata for Information and Knowledge Management. In I. . Huvila, L. . Andersson, & O. . Sköld (Eds.) (pp. 249–264). Cham: Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53946-6_14

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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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