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- Graminius, Carin, et al.
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Air pollution online : everyday environmental information on the social media site Sina Weibo
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Documentation. - 0022-0418. ; 74:4, s. 722-740
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to explore how information on air pollution is shaped online on an everyday basis, with a particular emphasis on digital devices and digital representations as constitutive of environmental information practices. Furthermore, this research highlights an understudied aspect of air pollution – the digital flow of multimodal representations that citizens encounter and produce in their everyday life. The information gathering was carried out on an everyday basis during February-March 2017. The study is based on 403 microblog posts from the social media site Sina Weibo, and netnographic fieldwork, including the observation of news, advertisements, and diary writing. The collected data were mapped in clusters based on the interrelations of objects, agents, and activities, and analyzed in depth using qualitative multimodal analysis. Findings: Information enacted through specific socio-materialist configurations depicts air pollution as self-contained and separated from human action. Air quality apps are central in connecting a wider nexus of representations and promoting such perceptions, illustrating the role of digital devices in an everyday information context. Social implications: The study reveals a schism between Chinese political environmental visions and everyday environmental information practices, which raises questions of how the battle against air pollution can be sustained in the long term. Originality/value: This study suggests that digital material aspects – inbuilt applications of digital devices and digital representations of objects – are interrelated with physical experiences of air pollution, and thus constitute elements of practice in their own right.
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- Graminius, Carin
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Conflating scholarly and science communication practices : the production of open letters on climate change
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Documentation. - 0022-0418. ; 76:6, s. 1359-1375
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyse interfaces between scholarly and science communication practices by using the production of open letters on climate change as a point of departure. Furthermore, the paper highlights an understudied form of science communication – open letters. Design/methodology/approach: The material consists of nine open letters on climate change, written and signed by academics and published in 2018–2019, as well as 13 semi-structured interviews with the initiators and co-authors of the letters. The interviews were analysed by qualitative thematic analysis and grouped into thematic clusters. Findings: The study finds that three practices used in scholarly communication – more specifically: peer review, professional community building and, to a certain extent, communication as “merit-making” – are central in the making of the open letters, illustrating an integration of scholarly communication practices in academic science communication activities. Social implications: The study suggests that the conflation of communication practices needs to be seen in relation to larger structural changes in the academic working environment, as well as in relation to the specific environment in which communication about climate change occurs. Originality/value: This study contends that the proposed conflation between scholarly and science communication concerns not only texts and genres but also practices integral to contemporary science, thereby conflating the forms of communication at a practical level.
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- Graminius, Carin, et al.
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Editorial
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies. - 2597-0593. ; 4:1, s. i-iv
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- Graminius, Carin, et al.
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Editorial
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies. - 2597-0593. ; 4:1
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- Graminius, Carin
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Fast-food information, information quality and information gap : a temporal exploration of the notion of information in science communication on climate change
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Documentation. - 0022-0418. ; 78:7, s. 89-105
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this study is to discuss the concept of information in relation to temporality within the context of climate change communication. Furthermore, the paper aims to highlight the empirical richness of information as a concept by analysing its use in context. Design/methodology/approach: The discussion is based on 14 semi-structured interviews with initiators and collaborators of 6 open letters on climate change published in 2018–2019. By taking three specific notions the interviewees introduced—fast food information, information quality and information gap–as the analytical point of departure, the study aims for a contextual understanding of information grounded in temporal sensitivity. Findings: The paper finds that information in the context of open letters is informed by different, and at times contradicting, temporalities and timescapes which align with various material, institutional and discursive practices. Based on this finding, the paper argues that notions of information are intrinsically linked to the act of communicating, and they should be viewed as co-constituting each other. Originality/value: The paper contributes with an empirically informed discussion regarding the concept of information as it is used in a specific context. It illustrates how “information” is far from being understood in a singular fashion, but is made up of multifaceted and at times contradictory understandings. Ultimately, they correspond to why and how one communicates climate change information.
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- Graminius, Carin
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Open Letters and Climate Communication : The Professional Roles and Identities of Researchers in Times of Crisis
- 2023
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication. - 1752-4040. ; 17:6, s. 537-549
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Open letters are seen as a politicized form of climate communication, and the professional roles of researchers who engage in these communicative events are thereby cast into question. Based on semi-structured interviews with initiators to open letters, this article argues that while communication can be seen as constitutive and influencing new and emergent professional identities, there are also overlaps and continuations of already established professional identities linked to what appears to be politicized communication. In the case of open letters on climate change, communication can be seen as a reaction against academic professional boundaries, but also a cementation and reaffirmation of one’s professional role that follows institutional boundaries and policies. The implications of this study are that we should not ascribe transformative power to a specific medium of communication, but rather examine the practices and understandings of communicators who engage in such activities.
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