Björn Ekström

I am 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 – often in relation to environmental matters, novel technologies and/or scholarly work. I have an interest in sociomaterial practice theory and tend to work with qualitative and digital methods. I mainly teach courses related to information search and knowledge organisation.

Selected publications

Ekström, B. (2025). Can the exposition of paradata lead to participant diversity in biodiversity citizen science?. Information Matters, (5)1.

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. (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.

Pennlert, J., Ekström, B., & Lorentzen, D. G. (2021). Teleoptical perspectives on digital methods: Scientific claims and consequences. In S. Petersson (Ed.), Digital Human Sciences (pp. 75-102). Stockholm University Press.

Elsewhere

Here is my staff page at the University of Borås.

A more comprehensive list of publications is available at ORCID.