Olof Sundin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olof Sundin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olof |
| FAMILY NAME | Sundin |
| SIGNATURE | SUNDIN Ö |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6352-8580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Digital vulnerabilities
Recent global events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, wars and migration streams, have highlighted the promise of digital infrastructures while also showcasing how dependent we are on digital systems for accessing welfare services such as healthcare, social services and education, as well as for accessing public service media. Notably, in the context of welfare provision, different people and social groups are affected in distinct ways by such d…
Understanding how AI-enhanced search applications navigate digital grey zones in Sweden
AI-enhanced search applications are evolving rapidly, promising to answer complex queries with simple answers, but this creates new challenges on how users evaluate the information presented to them. This study investigates how four AI-enhanced search applications (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and You.com) respond to questions about erectile dysfunction drugs in Sweden, which risks creating digital grey zone markets in the search results. By analysin…
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…
Akademisk vardag på en global referensmarknad
Scholarly literature is integrated into the fabric of scholars’ everyday life. The literature serves both the purpose of communicating content and of constructing the trustworthiness of research and establishing distinctions between scholars. New digital tools, such as Google Scholar or Research Gate, act as filters, yet they also influence and reshape the way people search and publish. As scholars, we need to be aware how these new filters funct…
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…
The Instrumentality of Information Needs and Relevance
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 Instrumentality of Information Needs and Relevance
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…
Akademisk vardag på en global referensmarknad
Scholarly literature is integrated into the fabric of scholars’ everyday life. The literature serves both the purpose of communicating content and of constructing the trustworthiness of research and establishing distinctions between scholars. New digital tools, such as Google Scholar or Research Gate, act as filters, yet they also influence and reshape the way people search and publish. As scholars, we need to be aware how these new filters funct…
Introduction: Changing Orders of Knowledge? Encyclopaedias in Transition
No abstract available
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
Understanding how AI-enhanced search applications navigate digital grey zones in Sweden
AI-enhanced search applications are evolving rapidly, promising to answer complex queries with simple answers, but this creates new challenges on how users evaluate the information presented to them. This study investigates how four AI-enhanced search applications (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and You.com) respond to questions about erectile dysfunction drugs in Sweden, which risks creating digital grey zone markets in the search results. By analysin…
Digital vulnerabilities
Recent global events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, wars and migration streams, have highlighted the promise of digital infrastructures while also showcasing how dependent we are on digital systems for accessing welfare services such as healthcare, social services and education, as well as for accessing public service media. Notably, in the context of welfare provision, different people and social groups are affected in distinct ways by such d…
Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (3 works) · Internet privacy (3 works) · Knowledge management (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Data science (2 works)