Helena Francke

Biography

I am associate professor of Library and Information Science. In my research, I have primarily focused on the expressions that the use of digital media take, e.g. concerning credibility and authority, information seeking, publishing, and organizational development. Lately, I have, among other things, studied the new tasks that academic libraries take on with regard to publishing and evaluation, for example in the project Open e-services which brings together expertise on open access, open standards and open file formats. I also collaborate with researchers in Pedagogical work on a project which investigates the use of apps in school education, SAPP. I work in the Knowledge in a Digital World project at Lund university. As part of KDW I study trust and credibility in the context of social networking services aimed at academics. I have worked at the University of Borås as a teacher and researcher since 1999. In 2008, I defended my Ph.D. dissertation The (re)creation of scholarly journals: Document and information architecture in Open Access e-journals. Before that, I had studied Library and information science at the University of Borås and English and Comparative literature at the University of Gothenburg. I worked within the research project Expertise, authority and control on the Internet (EXACT) funded by the Swedish Research Council between 2008-2012. In the academic year 2010-2011 I had a post doc position at the University of Borås. Between 1999 and 2007, I was one of the editors of Human IT: Journal for Information Technology Studies as a Human Science. Scholarly publishing and media and information literacy are also areas where I do the majority of my teaching (see Assignments).

Research Interest

Library and Information Science