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 http://tinyurl.com/2p9f63mu

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Olof Sundin is a Swedish professor of information studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University.

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Communication & Media Studies 24%

Computer science 24%

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17d

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.

Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 18d

Även om jag förstår vad du menar @planckskonstant.bsky.social så undrar jag om man inte pga av unga människors bristande vana av att skriva med penna och papper behöver ge mer tid åt salstentor jämför med för 20 år sedan.

Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 18d

Mina tonårsbarn skriver tyvärr för hand som grottmänniskor. Jag tycker det är ett problem som i alla fall delvis kan skyllas på Chromebook under grundskolan (och delvis ett arv från mig…).

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Linus Larsson @linuslarsson.se · 18d

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...

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.

www.dn.se

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Gunnar Björnsson @gbjorn.bsky.social · 18d

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...

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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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · 19d

Så är det. Men varför ska salstentamen nödvändigtvis vara digital?

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Reposted by Göran Bolin, Olof Sundin

Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 19d

Finland-Swedish political cartoon from 1938, by Tove Jansson the creator of Moomin.

Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Steve Peers , and 10 more Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Steve Peers, Edgar Morgenroth, Olof Sundin, Kevin F. McCarthy, Ben Tonra, Holger Hestermeyer, Damian Trilling, David Bartram, Martin Drenthen, Juanjo Medina, Aidan O’Sullivan

Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 20d

The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is moving away from Microsoft and switching instead to Linux and LibreOffice
www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...

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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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · Dec 24

2020 minsann

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Jutta Haider @juttahaider.bsky.social · Dec 11

👊"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...

How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption

If AI can be built to increase consumption, then the opposite is also possible.

theconversation.com

Reposted by Ernesto Priego, Olof Sundin

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Nov 18

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...

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

www.bbc.co.uk

Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · Oct 27

Det här är fortfarande aktuellt. Var är ni nyfikna Sv/So-lärare och skolbibliotekarier?

Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · Oct 24

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!

Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · Oct 24

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Jutta Haider @juttahaider.bsky.social · Oct 16

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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Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨 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 · Aug 18

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...

doi.org

Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

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 · Jun 30

I hope the book gives you something!

Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · May 26

I had a great discussion with @neilselwyn.bsky.social about handling disinformation in schools! Now out for anyone interested.

Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · May 26

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...

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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · May 26

Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · Apr 17

And there are two highly interesting keynote speakers to look forward to!

Reposted by Simon L. Lewis, Olof Sundin

Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · Apr 10

$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 · Apr 9

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...

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.

www.thebulwark.com

Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · Mar 14

easychair.org/cfp/SEASON2025

CFP

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Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · Mar 14

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 · Mar 5

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 …

iame.education

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Nov 17

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.

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Johan Östling @johanostling.bsky.social · Nov 15

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...

Olof Sundin @olofsundin.bsky.social · Nov 12

On my way to Stockholm and to give a presentation for school librarians. The best audience you can have!

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