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- Eidenskog, Maria, 1981-, et al.
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Changing the world one engineer at a time – unmaking the traditional engineering education when introducing sustainability subjects
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. - : EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD. - 1467-6370 .- 1758-6739. ; 24:9, s. 70-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The information technology (IT) sector has been seen as central to society's transformation to a more just and sustainable society, which underlines teachers’ responsibility to foster engineers who can contribute specifically to such ends. This study aims to report an effort to significantly update an existing engineering programme in IT with this ambition and to analyse the effects and challenges associated with the transformation.Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on a combination of action-oriented research based on implementing key changes to the curriculum; empirical investigations including surveys and interviews with students and teachers, and analysis of these; and a science and technology studies-inspired analysis.Findings: Respondents were generally positive towards adding topics relating to sustainability. However, in the unmaking of traditional engineering subjects, changes created a conflict between core versus soft subjects in which the core subjects tended to gain the upper hand. This conflict can be turned into productive discussions by focusing on what kinds of engineers the authors’ educate and how students can be introduced to societal problems as an integrated part of their education.Practical implications: This study can be helpful for educators in the engineering domain to support them in their efforts to transition from a (narrow) focus on traditional disciplines to one where the bettering of society is at the core.Originality/value: This study provides a novel approach to the transformation of engineering education through a theoretical analysis seldom used in studies of higher education on a novel case study.
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- Granath, Malin, 1974-, et al.
(författare)
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The smart meter as a boundary object-insights from an empirical case
- 2023
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Ingår i: European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2023. - Kristiansand, Norway : AIS eLibrary.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Smart meters are often understood as central devices in the smart, flexible and sustainable electric grid, enabling consumers to adapt their electricity use to current supply. In this study we are interested in how different actors in a Swedish context understand the smart meters and fit them into their locally situated practices and contexts, and we analyze the smart meters with the concept of boundary objects as an analytical lens with the purpose of describing and explaining tensions between actors in intended and actual use of smart meters. The case study builds on empirical material from policy documents, web pages and user forums, and include the Swedish government, authorities, grid operators and electricity suppliers as well as consumers. The main conclusions are that consumers were not included in the design and roll-out of the smart meters, resulting in that the available information requires consumers to be active and resourceful experts.
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- Gustafsson, Mariana S., 1978-, et al.
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Repairment of Unstable Sociomaterial Relations: A study on librarians’ and social workers’ roles and practices in addressing the complex needs of vulnerable groups
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper we address the increased digitalization of the fabric of modern welfare societies, and the expectations on individuals to be independent and digitally capable that follows from this. We focus on repairment practices aimed at repairing the lives of individuals situated in unstable sociomaterial relations in the context of social care and a public library in Sweden. The aim was to explore repairment practices in two Swedish empirical contexts: one in a municipal library setting, and one in a social service setting. The analysis was conducted with the help of the concept of repairment, understood in relation to feminist STS points of departure of relationality and entanglement of humans and non-humans. We conducted interviews and observations in these two settings and analyzed these with the help of the concept of repair. The analysis shows that in the context of social service, repairment was enacted differently in relation to different interpretations of existing legislation concerning minimal livelihoods, and that in the context of the public library repairment was enacted in relation to expectations of the library visitors to become digitally independent. We also relate these repairment practices to the current pandemic.
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- S. Gustafsson, Mariana, 1978-, et al.
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Technology Mediated Citizenship : What Can We Learn from Library Practices
- 2020
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Ingår i: Electronic Participation. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030581404 ; , s. 109-120
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Advanced digital societies in democratic societies are conceived to besustained by informed, active and responsible citizens. While internet and informationtechnologies are both hailed for their empowering potential for the citizensto express their civic and political rights, they also pose considerable literacy andusage challenges, and thus can raise exclusionary thresholds for these same aspirations.Digital skills and information literacy as preconditions for tapping intosuch technology potential, can thus affect theway citizenship is practiced and conceivedby the members of society. Based on an extensive field study at Swedishlibraries practices with helping and educating clientswith awide diversity of questionsrelating to digital technologies and e-services, we examine both empiricallyand conceptually how citizenship is practiced in an advanced digital society, ina universal welfare state. The analysis focused on citizenship practices in dailyactivities when technologies mediate participation and interaction among the public,civic andmarket actors. The conclusions contribute to the conceptualization ofcitizenship act and agency and elaborates on citizenship as a performative process.
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- Sefyrin, Johanna, 1972-, et al.
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Addressing digital diversity: Care matters in vulnerable digital relations in a Swedish library context
- 2021
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Ingår i: Science and Public Policy. - : Oxford University Press. - 0302-3427 .- 1471-5430. ; 48:6, s. 841-848
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As societies become increasingly digitalized, the requirements for inclusion continuously increase. In a Swedish public, municipal, library context,it is common that individuals who face difficulties related to digital technologies come and ask for help. In this paper, we explore care in relationsconstituted by individuals and digital technologies and analyze how care matters for digital inclusion. It builds on field studies in a Swedish librarycontext and includes qualitative interviews, focus groups, and observations of employees working to support individuals with digital needs. Inorder to analyze the material, we apply the concept of care. In the concluding discussion, we argue first for viewing individuals as sociomaterialentanglements of relations constituted by humans and non-humans, second that these soc
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- Sefyrin, Johanna, 1972-, et al.
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Repair of Unstable Sociomaterial Relations: A Study on Librarians’ and Social Workers’ Practices in Addressing the Needs of Their Clients
- 2022
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Ingår i: HUMAN CHOICE AND DIGITAL BY DEFAULT: AUTONOMY VS DIGITAL DETERMINATION, HCC 2022. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783031156885 - 9783031156878 ; , s. 36-46
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we address the increased digitalization of the fabric ofmodern welfare societies, and the expectations on individuals to be independentand digitally capable that follows from this. We focus on enactments of repairaimed at maintaining the lives of individuals situated in unstable sociomaterialrelations in the context of social care and a public library in Sweden. The purposewas to explore enactments of repair in two Swedish empirical contexts: one ina social service setting, and one in a municipal library setting. The analysis wasconducted with the help of the concept of repair, understood as maintenance ortransformation. We conducted interviews and observations in these two settingsand analyzed these with the help of the concept of repair. The analysis shows that inthe context of social service, repair was enacted differently in relation to differentinterpretations of existing legislation concerning minimal livelihoods, and that inthe context of the public library repair was enacted in relation to expectations of thelibrary visitors to become digitally independent. The analysis showed that in bothof these contexts repair was enacted as maintenance rather than as transformation.
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