🌱 Björn Ekström
I am a Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden. I write about how people seek, share, organise, produce or otherwise deal with information in relation to environmental matters, novel technologies and/or scholarly work. I have an interest in posthumanist and sociomaterial practice theory, and work with qualitative and digital methods. I mainly teach courses related to information search and knowledge organisation.
Selected publications
Ekström, B., & Haider, J. (2026). A methodology for analysing informational textures: Skipping stones and noticing the ripples. Journal of Documentation, 82(7), 150-169.
Ekström, B., & Pilerot, O. (2026). Distributed agency and materiality in biodiversity citizen science. In N. Sohljoo (Ed.), Multispecies Information Science. Routledge.
Ekström, B., Engström, L., & Haider, J. (2025). Foundation models’ acceptable use policies disregard the environment and nature. Nature Machine Intelligence, 7(11), 1771-1772.
Pilerot, O., & Ekström, B. (2025). Information practice and information behaviour: On the need for conceptual and theoretical clarity. Information Research an International Electronic Journal, 30(CoLIS), 461–473.
Haider, J., Söderström, K. R., Ekström, B., & Rödl, M. (2024). GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 5(5), 1-16.
Ekström, B. (2024). No rose on this one? Citizen science field excursion negotiations at the Great Alvar. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 12(1), 5-16.
Ekström, B. (2023). Thousands of examining eyes: Credibility, authority and validity in biodiversity citizen science data production. Aslib Journal of Information Management. 75(1), 149-170.
Ekström, B. (2022). A niche of their own: Variations of information practices in biodiversity citizen science. Journal of Documentation, 78(7), 248-265.
Ekström, B. (2022). Trace data visualisation enquiry: A methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems. Journal of Documentation, 78(7), 141–159.
Current research projects
Information Cultures, Data and Technology in Environmental Communication
Elsewhere
Here is my staff page at the University of Borås.
A more comprehensive list of publications is available at ORCID.