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"Thou Shalt Make No Graven Maps!": An Interview with Gunnar Olsson
No full textThe author spoke with renowned Swedish geographer Gunnar Olsson about maps, GIS and the power of imagination in both history and geography
Beyond ‘Needy’ Individuals: Conceptualizing Information Behavior
No full textUnderstanding information users and their behavior is a question of central importance for information
research and practice. The paper challenges several aspects of existing approaches to understanding information behavior, including: the focus on individual cognition at the expense of social and affective factors; the construction of information users as defined by their areas of ignorance and uncertainty, rather than their expertise; and the focus on purposive rather than non-purposive information behavior. It argues that only by addressing these weaknesses and developing new research strategies and theoretical frameworks which focus attention on the social processes and relationships which underpin users’ information behavior can we hope to develop a truly holistic understanding of the relationship between people and information. The paper uses the author’s study of information behavior researcher’s constructions of an author (Brenda Dervin) to illustrate how a social constructivist approach can both build on existing approaches to information behavior research and address some of their weaknesses. It argues that social constructivist approaches provide a theoretical lens through which information researchers can gain a clearer picture of information users not as ‘needy’ individuals to be ‘helped’, but as social beings, experts in their own life-worlds
Lunaceps actophilus
No full textLunaceps actophilus (Kellogg and Chapman, 1899) (Fig. 6a–d; Table 1)Published as part of Gustafsson, Daniel R. & Olsson, Urban, 2012, 3377, pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 3377 on page 1
Spionchips kontrollerar dig
No full textPeter Seipel, Kia Höök, Gunnar Sjödin, Markus Bylund, Olle Olsson, Helena Andersson, Anders R Olsso
Commentaries from Erik J. Olsson
No full textIn this chapter, the author argues that there are cases in which a nonexpert’s autonomously-formed belief is based on evidence that would otherwise be sufficient for justification, but where this belief is rendered unjustified by (potential) evidence which the nonexpert fails to take into account. He gives various examples in support of his claim. One involves Roger, a food scientist for a large food corporation, who is also an enthusiastic cook. The rules of thumb he has derived from his cooking experience are very reliable, but not as reliable as the scientific method he masters. The author reports that he has argued, in earlier work, that the source of the “ought” is in the normative expectations others are entitled to have based on a person’s participation in various social practices. He thinks that his account underpins a kind of “social-epistemic bootstrapping”, which he thinks is “happy”
Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and phylogeny of Oligocene and lower Miocene Dentoglobigerina and Globoquadrina
No full textThe taxonomy, phylogeny, and biostratigraphy of
Oligocene and lower Miocene Dentoglobigerina
and Globoquadrina are reviewed. Because of the
discovery of spine holes in various species assigned
to these genera, the entire group is now considered to
have been fully or sparsely spinose in life and hence
part of Family Globigerinidae. One new species,
Dentoglobigerina eotripartita Pearson, Wade, and
Olsson n. sp., is named. Dentoglobigerina includes
forms with and without umbilical teeth and species
for which the presence or absence of a tooth is a
variable feature. A significant finding has been the
triple synonymy of Globigerina tripartita Koch,
Globigerina rohri Bolli, and Globoquadrina dehiscens
praedehiscens Blow, which greatly simplifies part of
the taxonomy. The genus Globoquadrina is restricted
to its type species, Globigerina dehiscens Chapman and
others. The following species from the time interval
of interest are regarded as valid: Dentoglobigerina altispira (Cushman and Jarvis), Dentoglobigerina
baroemoenensis (LeRoy), Dentoglobigerina
binaiensis (Koch), Dentoglobigerina eotripartita
Pearson, Wade, and Olsson n. sp., Dentoglobigerina
galavisi (Bermúdez), Dentoglobigerina
globosa (Bolli), Dentoglobigerina globularis
(Bermúdez), Dentoglobigerina juxtabinaiensis
Fox and Wade, Dentoglobigerina larmeui (Akers),
Dentoglobigerina prasaepis (Blow), Dentoglobigerina
pseudovenezuelana (Blow and Banner),
Dentoglobigerina sellii (Borsetti), Dentoglobigerina
taci Pearson and Wade, Dentoglobigerina tapuriensis
(Blow and Banner), Dentoglobigerina tripartita
(Koch), Dentoglobigerina venezuelana (Hedberg),
and Globoquadrina dehiscens (Chapman, Parr,
and Collins). The genus Dentoglobigerina also
comprises other Neogene/Quaternary species not
listed, including the living species Dentoglobigerina
cf. conglomerata (Schwager)
Från Mala till Riksdagshuset
No full text[From Mala to Riksdagshuset]Review of Hässleholmskvinnor i kampen för rösträtt (Bokpro, Bjärnum 2021).Citation: Hort, Sven E Olsson (2022) “Från Mala till Riksdagshuset”, review in Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, issue 14, pp. 117–120. https://doi.org/10.13068/2000-6217.14.R4Recension av Hässleholmskvinnor i kampen för rösträtt (Bokpro, Bjärnum 2021).Hort, Sven E Olsson (2022) ”Från Mala till Riksdagshuset”, recension i Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, nr 14, s. 117–120. https://doi.org/10.13068/2000-6217.14.R
Chapter 11. Soil carbon in sensitive European ecosystems: from science to land management - a summary
No full textThe Author / as Editor / as Producer. Preliminary Notes on the Aesthetic Function of the Editor
No full textIn Walter Benjamin’s ”The Author as Producer”, the writer is urged to identify with the worker in terms of a producer – i.e. not only on an ideological level, but with regards to the technological conditions of production within a given historical moment – in order to become both politically and aesthetically effective. This, in turn, must take place through an elimination of the demarcation lines between specific mediums and their affiliated competences. In this sense (at least according to Benjamin, in 1934), doing away with the ’barrier’ between text and image, for instance, would be a way of escaping a bourgeois production apparatus. One aspect of this idea of the author as producer, is that the author here assumes the figure of what is essentially an editor: someone who identifies, collects, modifies, constellates and distributes cultural artifacts – regardless of medium, regardless of publishing surface; a practice that is not medium specific, and implies an unconstrained mobility between different technologies of cultural production and distribution. One consequence of the general digitalization of contemporary culture is that the distinction between the figure of the author and the editor has become eminently uncertain. Can Benjamin’s 1934 reflection on cultural production be beneficial for developing tools to describe what one could call an recent editorial turn of artistic practice? Is this assumed ’turn’ actually a longer historical process, made visible by the emergence of digital editing (in a broader sense)? And in what ways can it help to uncover hitherto hard to discern aspects of historical art and literature
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