Olof Sundin
@olofsundin.bsky.social
Professor in Information Studies at LU. ”Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy: The Crisis of Information" 2022 with J Haider http://tinyurl.com/2p9f63mu
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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?
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an
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November 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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?
Det här är fortfarande aktuellt. Var är ni nyfikna Sv/So-lärare och skolbibliotekarier?
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!
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Det här är fortfarande aktuellt. Var är ni nyfikna Sv/So-lärare och skolbibliotekarier?
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!
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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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
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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October 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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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🚨 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.
"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.
August 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🚨 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.
"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.
Reposted by Olof Sundin
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...
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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August 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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...
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
journals.openedition.org/ries/18128
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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June 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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
journals.openedition.org/ries/18128
I had a great discussion with @neilselwyn.bsky.social about handling disinformation in schools! Now out for anyone interested.
Helping students deal with disinformation & AI-generated slop is yet another thing that schools are now being asked to tackle. Listen to this new interview with information studies expert @olofsundin.bsky.social about what 'disinformation literacy' might look like: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
May 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I had a great discussion with @neilselwyn.bsky.social about handling disinformation in schools! Now out for anyone interested.
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$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"
- "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"
April 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
$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"
- "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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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...
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...
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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April 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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...
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...
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.
March 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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.
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...
Next webinar : Beyond easy answers: media literacy and information dis …
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March 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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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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👇
Latest Trump cabinet pick is Chris Wright for Energy Secretary, an oil executive. He has:
-Described net zero as "sinister."
-Last year said: “There is no climate crisis and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”
-Claimed we've seen no increase in extreme weather events.
-Described net zero as "sinister."
-Last year said: “There is no climate crisis and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”
-Claimed we've seen no increase in extreme weather events.
November 17, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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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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...
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...
November 15, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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...
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...
On my way to Stockholm and to give a presentation for school librarians. The best audience you can have!
November 12, 2024 at 9:08 AM
On my way to Stockholm and to give a presentation for school librarians. The best audience you can have!
Reposted by Olof Sundin
17 miljarder i bensinbonus, slopad elbilsbonus och en kapad reduktionsplikt: Nu minskar elbilsförsäljningen på bred front.
Efter regeringens bensinbonusar: Elbilar backar igen - Klimatgranskaren
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September 3, 2024 at 7:24 PM
17 miljarder i bensinbonus, slopad elbilsbonus och en kapad reduktionsplikt: Nu minskar elbilsförsäljningen på bred front.
Mycket trevligt samtal med @degrell.bsky.social om min nya bok!
Jag har spelat in en podd med @olofsundin.bsky.social om källkritik och källtillit, med anledning av hans nyutkomna bok i ämnet. Finns där poddar finns (sök på HT-samtal) samt här:
Källkritik och källtillit (med Olof Sundin)
Källkritik är viktigare än någonsin, men hur är den ens möjlig i en så komplex, fragmenterad och individualiserad värld som vår? Hur kan vi vara källkritiska i praktiken när vi läser om något vi perso
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June 25, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Mycket trevligt samtal med @degrell.bsky.social om min nya bok!
Debattartikel av @juttahaider.bsky.social och mig om hur möjligheter till källkritik urholkas
www.dn.se/debatt/utan-...
www.dn.se/debatt/utan-...
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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June 23, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Debattartikel av @juttahaider.bsky.social och mig om hur möjligheter till källkritik urholkas
www.dn.se/debatt/utan-...
www.dn.se/debatt/utan-...
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”.
June 4, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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”.
Redan är detta långt ner i nyhetsvärderingen och JÅ ges sista ordet. Ledsamt att det inte ens förvånar.
May 8, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Redan är detta långt ner i nyhetsvärderingen och JÅ ges sista ordet. Ledsamt att det inte ens förvånar.
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...
www.dn.se/kultur/malin...
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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May 7, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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...
www.dn.se/kultur/malin...
February 28, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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/...
January 15, 2024 at 6:08 AM
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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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.
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.
December 27, 2023 at 7:04 PM
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.
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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🎉 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
The book has arrived! Happy publication day! www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/... book launch details coming soon!
December 15, 2023 at 11:14 AM
🎉 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