Jutta Haider
Biographic Data
| ID | 291108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jutta Haider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jutta |
| FAMILY NAME | Haider |
| SIGNATURE | HAIDER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Borås |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8293-8208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond Dualisms: Revisioning Critical Communication Principles in Intercultural and Environmental Communication
Capitalism produces dualisms, and these dualisms create ruin. There is an urgent need for critical communication studies to address such harmful separations as nature versus society, or human versus nonhuman, in order to better understand and respond to contemporary crises. This paper addresses this need by assessing five dynamic principles of critical communication that underlie an eight-year programme on environmental communication research, ba…
‘Google this!’ How performative links and search engines organise information disorders in a climate obstruction network
In recent years, information disorders, including on environmental issues, have grown in strength and influence, making research involving detailed analyses of how they are organised increasingly important. This article focuses on a Swedish climate obstruction network and investigates the keyphrases (search queries) they suggest people should google. An analysis of keyphrases suggested between 2014 and 2022 on the network's blog and in other publ…
Algorithmic recommendations in the everyday life of young people: Imaginaries of agency and resources
Algorithmic recommender systems have become a regularised part of the current information infrastructure, as they have been increasingly integrated into many online platforms. This study aims to examine and thus improve our understanding of young people’s agency and their imaginaries related to algorithmic recommendations within the information infrastructure by applying Giddens’s (Citation1984) conception of resources to the domain of recommende…
Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design
This commentary discusses the role of increasingly artificial intelligence-infused big tech platforms in facilitating and normalising high-emission lifestyles and consumption practices. It introduces the notion of algorithmically facilitated emissions to initiate a shift from a logic of ‘climate collapse by design’ to a logic of ‘emissions reduction by design’. Reducing consumption-based emissions from high-income households and countries is crit…
Anticipating airpocalypse: Air quality apps and implicit modes of anticipatory practices
Air quality apps are designed to observe air quality and inform publics about it, but also to elicit actions based on anticipated scenarios. As such, they may be seen as anticipatory technologies, cultivating environmental understandings and orienting users toward a specific future. This paper explores the anticipatory assemblages of these apps as well as users’ interactions with these apps and their implicit anticipatory practices. We argue that…
The quest for “nature” in selfies: How platforms shape nature/society relationships
Social media and other platforms have become an essential part of outdoor activities as they influence how nature is experienced and engaged with, but also what good nature is seen as. In this article, we explore how social understandings of nature and digital technologies are mutually performed. Using the empirical case of nature selfies—an archetype of imagery on social media platforms—posted on Instagram, Facebook, and Tripadvisor, and a small…
Google Search and the creation of ignorance: The case of the climate crisis
The article examines the relationship between commercial search engines, using Google Search as an example, and various forms of ignorance related to climate change. It draws on concepts from the field of agnotology to explore how environmental ignorances, and specifically related to the climate crisis, are shaped at the intersection of the logics of Google Search, everyday life and civil society/politics. Ignorance refers to a multi-facetted und…
Information literacy challenges in digital culture: Conflicting engagements of trust and doubt
The ability of citizens to establish the credibility of information and information sources through critical assessment is often emphasized as essential for the upholding of a democratic society and for people’s health and safety. Drawing on material-discursive conceptualizations, the article asks, how does critical assessment of information and information sources play out as it is folded into a networked information infrastructure in which diff…
Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy
Conclusion
The concluding chapter repeats the most salient points raised in a conceptual discussion attentive to issues of time and temporality. Thereafter, the chapter revisits some of the central concepts and notions in the book: search-ification and mundane-ification of search; searching for content versus searching in practice; infrastructural breakdown and frictions of relevance; infrastructural meaning-making; and the limits of critical evaluation of …
Perspectives on search
The aim of this chapter is to familiarise readers with important currents in earlier research and to highlight positions and findings to build on. The chapter surveys information retrieval and information behaviour research with the purpose of presenting a basic understanding and deepening some of the concepts introduced in Chapter One. The authors also bring in selected research on search and search engines from other fields such as media and co…
Researching search and search as research
In this chapter, the issue of method is brought to the fore. The chapter has two parts, addressing complementary questions: How to investigate search and searching and how to use search engines for research. In part one, problems are discussed related to method when attempting to study processes that are largely invisible and often taken for granted. Here, the chapter draws on the tradition of information science research for studying information…
The materialities of search
Chapter Three, the materialities of search, presents and discusses a number of conceptual devices relevant for understanding the dominance and constitutive embeddedness of search and search engines in society. Three materially and technically consequential as well as theoretically and historically rich concepts – infrastructure, data, and algorithms – are used to explicate some of the underlying technical structure of search engines. The chapter …
Search in everyday life
Chapter Four is dedicated to discussing some specific ways in which search is part of everyday life and its practices. This is a largely empirical chapter bringing in results from the authors’ own research that is expanded on by drawing on previous research. It is structured along the lines of thematic areas working to highlight some areas of significance of how search is embedded in everyday life. The ubiquity and routinisation of search is eluc…
Search and media and information literacy
The chapter approaches search from the perspective of literacy and more specifically of media and information literacy. It broaches the matter of the difficulties involved when trying to turn search and searching into objects for learning and teaching. On a related point, it examines the implications these difficulties have for the development of media and information literacy instruction and for researching media and information literacy. The fo…
Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life
Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy.Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis.Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the structure of our lives, and personal and public memories.Haider…
The Shaping of Environmental Information in Social Media: Affordances and Technologies of Self-control
This article studies environmental information as it circulates in social media, specifically in personal blogs and microblogs. It rests on a thematic analysis of a selection of Swedish language, personal, everyday life environment blogs active during 2011 and 2012 and the social media applications connected to these blogs. Gibson's concept of affordances and Foucault's notion of governmentality are brought together to examine how material and te…
Introduction: Changing Orders of Knowledge? Encyclopaedias in Transition
No abstract available
The networked life of professional encyclopaedias: Quantification, tradition, and trustworthiness
This paper aims at making visible new orders of encyclopaedic knowledge by means of an ethnographic study carried out during eight months at the editorial office of the leading commercial encyclopaedia in Sweden, Nationalencyklopedin (NE). The investigation is framed in a socio-technical understanding of how people, technologies and practices relate to each other. Three themes were identified during the analysis: Organisation of labour amongst th…
Beyond the legacy of the Enlightenment? Online encyclopaedias as digital heterotopias
This article explores how we can understand contemporary participatory online encyclopaedic expressions, particularly Wikipedia, in their traditional role as continuation of the Enlightenment ideal, as well as in the distinctly different space of the Internet. Firstly we position these encyclopaedias in a historical tradition. Secondly, we assign them a place in contemporary digital networks which marks them out as sites in which Enlightenment id…
Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life
Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy.Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis.Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the structure of our lives, and personal and public memories.Haider…
Anticipating airpocalypse: Air quality apps and implicit modes of anticipatory practices
Air quality apps are designed to observe air quality and inform publics about it, but also to elicit actions based on anticipated scenarios. As such, they may be seen as anticipatory technologies, cultivating environmental understandings and orienting users toward a specific future. This paper explores the anticipatory assemblages of these apps as well as users’ interactions with these apps and their implicit anticipatory practices. We argue that…
Google Search and the creation of ignorance: The case of the climate crisis
The article examines the relationship between commercial search engines, using Google Search as an example, and various forms of ignorance related to climate change. It draws on concepts from the field of agnotology to explore how environmental ignorances, and specifically related to the climate crisis, are shaped at the intersection of the logics of Google Search, everyday life and civil society/politics. Ignorance refers to a multi-facetted und…
Beyond the legacy of the Enlightenment? Online encyclopaedias as digital heterotopias
This article explores how we can understand contemporary participatory online encyclopaedic expressions, particularly Wikipedia, in their traditional role as continuation of the Enlightenment ideal, as well as in the distinctly different space of the Internet. Firstly we position these encyclopaedias in a historical tradition. Secondly, we assign them a place in contemporary digital networks which marks them out as sites in which Enlightenment id…
The networked life of professional encyclopaedias: Quantification, tradition, and trustworthiness
This paper aims at making visible new orders of encyclopaedic knowledge by means of an ethnographic study carried out during eight months at the editorial office of the leading commercial encyclopaedia in Sweden, Nationalencyklopedin (NE). The investigation is framed in a socio-technical understanding of how people, technologies and practices relate to each other. Three themes were identified during the analysis: Organisation of labour amongst th…
Introduction: Changing Orders of Knowledge? Encyclopaedias in Transition
No abstract available
The Shaping of Environmental Information in Social Media: Affordances and Technologies of Self-control
This article studies environmental information as it circulates in social media, specifically in personal blogs and microblogs. It rests on a thematic analysis of a selection of Swedish language, personal, everyday life environment blogs active during 2011 and 2012 and the social media applications connected to these blogs. Gibson's concept of affordances and Foucault's notion of governmentality are brought together to examine how material and te…
Conclusion
The concluding chapter repeats the most salient points raised in a conceptual discussion attentive to issues of time and temporality. Thereafter, the chapter revisits some of the central concepts and notions in the book: search-ification and mundane-ification of search; searching for content versus searching in practice; infrastructural breakdown and frictions of relevance; infrastructural meaning-making; and the limits of critical evaluation of …
Perspectives on search
The aim of this chapter is to familiarise readers with important currents in earlier research and to highlight positions and findings to build on. The chapter surveys information retrieval and information behaviour research with the purpose of presenting a basic understanding and deepening some of the concepts introduced in Chapter One. The authors also bring in selected research on search and search engines from other fields such as media and co…
Researching search and search as research
In this chapter, the issue of method is brought to the fore. The chapter has two parts, addressing complementary questions: How to investigate search and searching and how to use search engines for research. In part one, problems are discussed related to method when attempting to study processes that are largely invisible and often taken for granted. Here, the chapter draws on the tradition of information science research for studying information…
The materialities of search
Chapter Three, the materialities of search, presents and discusses a number of conceptual devices relevant for understanding the dominance and constitutive embeddedness of search and search engines in society. Three materially and technically consequential as well as theoretically and historically rich concepts – infrastructure, data, and algorithms – are used to explicate some of the underlying technical structure of search engines. The chapter …
Search in everyday life
Chapter Four is dedicated to discussing some specific ways in which search is part of everyday life and its practices. This is a largely empirical chapter bringing in results from the authors’ own research that is expanded on by drawing on previous research. It is structured along the lines of thematic areas working to highlight some areas of significance of how search is embedded in everyday life. The ubiquity and routinisation of search is eluc…
Search and media and information literacy
The chapter approaches search from the perspective of literacy and more specifically of media and information literacy. It broaches the matter of the difficulties involved when trying to turn search and searching into objects for learning and teaching. On a related point, it examines the implications these difficulties have for the development of media and information literacy instruction and for researching media and information literacy. The fo…
Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life
Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy.Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis.Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the structure of our lives, and personal and public memories.Haider…
Information literacy challenges in digital culture: Conflicting engagements of trust and doubt
The ability of citizens to establish the credibility of information and information sources through critical assessment is often emphasized as essential for the upholding of a democratic society and for people’s health and safety. Drawing on material-discursive conceptualizations, the article asks, how does critical assessment of information and information sources play out as it is folded into a networked information infrastructure in which diff…
Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy
Google Search and the creation of ignorance: The case of the climate crisis
The article examines the relationship between commercial search engines, using Google Search as an example, and various forms of ignorance related to climate change. It draws on concepts from the field of agnotology to explore how environmental ignorances, and specifically related to the climate crisis, are shaped at the intersection of the logics of Google Search, everyday life and civil society/politics. Ignorance refers to a multi-facetted und…
The quest for “nature” in selfies: How platforms shape nature/society relationships
Social media and other platforms have become an essential part of outdoor activities as they influence how nature is experienced and engaged with, but also what good nature is seen as. In this article, we explore how social understandings of nature and digital technologies are mutually performed. Using the empirical case of nature selfies—an archetype of imagery on social media platforms—posted on Instagram, Facebook, and Tripadvisor, and a small…
‘Google this!’ How performative links and search engines organise information disorders in a climate obstruction network
In recent years, information disorders, including on environmental issues, have grown in strength and influence, making research involving detailed analyses of how they are organised increasingly important. This article focuses on a Swedish climate obstruction network and investigates the keyphrases (search queries) they suggest people should google. An analysis of keyphrases suggested between 2014 and 2022 on the network's blog and in other publ…
Algorithmic recommendations in the everyday life of young people: Imaginaries of agency and resources
Algorithmic recommender systems have become a regularised part of the current information infrastructure, as they have been increasingly integrated into many online platforms. This study aims to examine and thus improve our understanding of young people’s agency and their imaginaries related to algorithmic recommendations within the information infrastructure by applying Giddens’s (Citation1984) conception of resources to the domain of recommende…
Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design
This commentary discusses the role of increasingly artificial intelligence-infused big tech platforms in facilitating and normalising high-emission lifestyles and consumption practices. It introduces the notion of algorithmically facilitated emissions to initiate a shift from a logic of ‘climate collapse by design’ to a logic of ‘emissions reduction by design’. Reducing consumption-based emissions from high-income households and countries is crit…
Anticipating airpocalypse: Air quality apps and implicit modes of anticipatory practices
Air quality apps are designed to observe air quality and inform publics about it, but also to elicit actions based on anticipated scenarios. As such, they may be seen as anticipatory technologies, cultivating environmental understandings and orienting users toward a specific future. This paper explores the anticipatory assemblages of these apps as well as users’ interactions with these apps and their implicit anticipatory practices. We argue that…
Beyond Dualisms: Revisioning Critical Communication Principles in Intercultural and Environmental Communication
Capitalism produces dualisms, and these dualisms create ruin. There is an urgent need for critical communication studies to address such harmful separations as nature versus society, or human versus nonhuman, in order to better understand and respond to contemporary crises. This paper addresses this need by assessing five dynamic principles of critical communication that underlie an eight-year programme on environmental communication research, ba…
Computer Science (13 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · World Wide Web (6 works) · Internet privacy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Everyday life (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)