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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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'Sweden is saying it wants experienced workers, but not their kids' Software developer Besnik Barani works at one of Sweden's biggest IT companies, while his daughter is a paid intern at Chalmers Institute of Technology. If the appeal in her teen deportation case fails, both might leave Sweden.

'Sweden is saying it wants experienced workers, but not their kids'

17.02.2026 16:46 👍 9 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0

Lycka till. Ser fyra snögubbar när du passerar Undersåker på hemvägen kan det vara vi som inte fick tag i taxi

15.02.2026 17:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hamburgare!

15.02.2026 16:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Men då tar det alltså ännu längre tid. Vi ska till Undersåker och har nu accepterat att vi missar hotellets sista körning från stationen. Det blir till att jaga taxi

15.02.2026 16:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Var? Hur?

15.02.2026 16:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Är med på samma äventyr, alltså evakuering av nattåget och nu på väg igen. Vi tänker så här, om kriget eller krisen kommer löser de viktiga samhällsaktörerna det genom noggranna upphandlingar.

15.02.2026 14:30 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

23.01.2026 09:11 👍 867 🔁 154 💬 10 📌 20
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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

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...

22.01.2026 08:18 👍 152 🔁 78 💬 11 📌 14
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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.

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...

22.01.2026 08:51 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0

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.

22.01.2026 09:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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…).

22.01.2026 08:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

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

22.01.2026 06:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.

Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.

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

Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.

21.01.2026 12:29 👍 260 🔁 145 💬 4 📌 14
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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.

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

20.01.2026 07:38 👍 1355 🔁 513 💬 33 📌 108

2020 minsann

24.12.2025 14:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption If AI can be built to increase consumption, then the opposite is also possible.

👊"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...

11.12.2025 07:38 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2

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?

18.11.2025 10:14 👍 1488 🔁 487 💬 67 📌 57

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

27.10.2025 15:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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!

24.10.2025 10:57 👍 4 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
Foundation models’ acceptable use policies disregard the environment and nature Nature Machine Intelligence - Foundation models’ acceptable use policies disregard the environment and nature

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

16.10.2025 13:51 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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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.

29.08.2025 18:03 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

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...

18.08.2025 13:52 👍 24 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

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

30.06.2025 15:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope the book gives you something!

30.06.2025 15:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

26.05.2025 12:00 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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And there are two highly interesting keynote speakers to look forward to!

17.04.2025 07:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

$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"

10.04.2025 13:18 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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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.

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...

09.04.2025 05:54 👍 163 🔁 50 💬 3 📌 7
CFP

easychair.org/cfp/SEASON2025

14.03.2025 08:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0