Change search
Link to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Haider, Jutta
Publications (10 of 112) Show all publications
Rödl, M. & Haider, J. (2025). ‘Google this!’ How performative links and search engines organise information disorders in a climate obstruction network. Information, Communication and Society, 1-21
Open this publication in new window or tab >>‘Google this!’ How performative links and search engines organise information disorders in a climate obstruction network
2025 (English)In: Information, Communication and Society, ISSN 1369-118X, E-ISSN 1468-4462, p. 1-21Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In recent years, information disorders, including on environmental issues, have grown in strength and influence, making research involving detailed analyses of how they are organised increasingly important. This article focuses on a Swedish climate obstruction network and investigates the keyphrases (search queries) they suggest people should google. An analysis of keyphrases suggested between 2014 and 2022 on the network's blog and in other publications shows how these suggestions function akin to hyperlinks in organising an alternative media ecosystem. The article introduces the idea of ‘performative links’ as a way to conceptualise how strategically recommended keyphrases operationalise data voids. Performative links encourage users to ‘do their own research’ by suggesting specific keyphrases as search queries. They connect the technical properties of web search engines with society's demands for individual responsibility and media and information literacy, and they help to promote data voids and feeds into information disorders. The analysis of the keyphrases suggested by the studied climate obstruction network focuses on how these keyphrases are composed, where they are published, how they spread, and what search results and thus information they result in. The findings indicate that performative links are crucial in controlling cross-media alternative media ecosystems. They exploit ideological dialects to construct and maintain data voids but also amplify the climate obstruction message and its reach. The article concludes by emphasising the need for more research on information disorders across different media and platforms, as well as the potential risks associated with performative links and data voids. 

Keywords
search engine, online search, climate denial, climate obstruction, media literacy, data voids
National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-33216 (URN)10.1080/1369118x.2024.2445640 (DOI)
Funder
Mistra - The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Mistra Environmental CommunicationSwedish Research Council Formas, 2022-01352_Formas
Available from: 2025-01-29 Created: 2025-01-29 Last updated: 2025-02-21Bibliographically approved
Haider, J. (2025). Infrastructures of Denial: The banality of AI-powered climate obstruction: (Keynote lecture). In: International symposium at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Munich, Germany., April 8-10, 2025. Organised by the Center for Responsible AI Technologies (CReAITech), a cooperation by TU Munich, University of Augsburg & Munich School of Philosophy Supported by: Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BadW): . Paper presented at Responsible AI: Promises, Pitfalls, and Practices.. Munich
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Infrastructures of Denial: The banality of AI-powered climate obstruction: (Keynote lecture)
2025 (English)In: International symposium at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Munich, Germany., April 8-10, 2025. Organised by the Center for Responsible AI Technologies (CReAITech), a cooperation by TU Munich, University of Augsburg & Munich School of Philosophy Supported by: Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BadW), Munich, 2025Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Munich: , 2025
Keywords
environmental communication, algorithms, ignorance
National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-33475 (URN)
Conference
Responsible AI: Promises, Pitfalls, and Practices.
Projects
Mistra Environmental Communication
Funder
Mistra - The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research
Available from: 2025-04-29 Created: 2025-04-29 Last updated: 2025-04-29
Nowé Hedvall, K., Hammarfelt, B., Haider, J., Pilerot, O., Gunnarsson Lorentzen, D., Trépagny, V., . . . Lund, A. (2025). Trumpadministrationen hotar biblioteken – låt inte samma sak ske i Sverige. Alltinget
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Trumpadministrationen hotar biblioteken – låt inte samma sak ske i Sverige
Show others...
2025 (Swedish)In: Alltinget, , p. 4Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Accepted
Publisher
p. 4
National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-33606 (URN)
Available from: 2025-05-30 Created: 2025-05-30 Last updated: 2025-06-04Bibliographically approved
Haider, J. (2024). AI-Powered Web Search Gives Climate Deniers and Conspiracy Theorists Free Rein. Tech Policy Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>AI-Powered Web Search Gives Climate Deniers and Conspiracy Theorists Free Rein
2024 (English)In: Tech Policy PressArticle in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

The most dangerous problem with AI chatbots in web search might not be that they are great at making things up, but that they are terrible at even basic media and information literacy and can't evaluate sources, writes Jutta Haider, a professor at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, and a member of the program team of Mistra Environmental Communication.

National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-32492 (URN)
Available from: 2024-09-03 Created: 2024-09-03 Last updated: 2024-10-31Bibliographically approved
Jylhä, V., Hirvonen, N. & Haider, J. (2024). Algorithmic recommendations enabling and constraining information practices among young people. Journal of Documentation, 80(7), 25-42
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Algorithmic recommendations enabling and constraining information practices among young people
2024 (English)In: Journal of Documentation, ISSN 0022-0418, E-ISSN 1758-7379, Vol. 80, no 7, p. 25-42Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose

This study addresses how algorithmic recommendations and their affordances shape everyday information practices among young people.

Design/methodology/approach

Thematic interviews were conducted with 20 Finnish young people aged 15–16 years. The material was analysed using qualitative content analysis, with a focus on everyday information practices involving online platforms.

Findings

The key finding of the study is that the current affordances of algorithmic recommendations enable users to engage in more passive practices instead of active search and evaluation practices. Two major themes emerged from the analysis: enabling not searching, inviting high trust, which highlights the how the affordances of algorithmic recommendations enable the delegation of search to a recommender system and, at the same time, invite trust in the system, and constraining finding, discouraging diversity, which focuses on the constraining degree of affordances and breakdowns associated with algorithmic recommendations.

Originality/value

This study contributes new knowledge regarding the ways in which algorithmic recommendations shape the information practices in young people's everyday lives specifically addressing the constraining nature of affordances.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2024
Keywords
search engines, information practices, relevance, recommender systems, information searching, everyday life, algorithmic recommendations
National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-31352 (URN)10.1108/jd-05-2023-0102 (DOI)001143170600001 ()2-s2.0-85182450613 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-01-19 Created: 2024-01-19 Last updated: 2024-04-09Bibliographically approved
Haider, J. (2024). An Information Crisis.: Invited talk. In: : . Paper presented at Expert Meeting on Mis- and Disinformation in the Digital Age, 19 November 2024. Geneva
Open this publication in new window or tab >>An Information Crisis.: Invited talk
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Geneva: , 2024
National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-33016 (URN)
Conference
Expert Meeting on Mis- and Disinformation in the Digital Age, 19 November 2024
Projects
Information Cultures, Data and Technology in Environmental CommunicationCreating meaning on the climate crisis
Funder
Mistra - The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Mistra Environmental CommunicationSwedish Research Council Formas, 2022-01352_Formas
Available from: 2025-01-03 Created: 2025-01-03 Last updated: 2025-01-13Bibliographically approved
Haider, J. (2024). Datification of conspiracy fragments and opposition to the green transition. In: The Nordic Network of Conspiracy Theory Research Inaugural Conference Book of Abstracts: . Paper presented at The Nordic Network of Conspiracy Theory Research Inaugural Conference, 23-24 May 2024. Lund
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Datification of conspiracy fragments and opposition to the green transition
2024 (English)In: The Nordic Network of Conspiracy Theory Research Inaugural Conference Book of Abstracts, Lund, 2024Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

“Climate change is a hoax — at least it's not a crisis — and the ‘green transition’ is part of the Great Reset with the ultimate goal of enabling the Great Replacement. Wind farms, solar panels, attempts to reduce meat consumption, or car dependency are all part of a plan by powerful elites to control and manipulate the world's population.” Conspiracy narratives often share striking similarities across various topics. This also applies to the climate crisis. Here, such narratives seem to be proliferating in recent years on certain high-profile issues where change is needed to combat and mitigate climate change, such as energy, food, and mobility, to name just the most obvious. The climate change counter-movement (CCCM) is active on many fronts. Although it contains an undercurrent of conspiratorial thinking, particularly in relation to what is termed science denial, this is not its most dominant characteristic. Recently, however, it appears that an opportunistic exploitation of already established conspiracy narratives increasingly taps into the discontent of groups negatively affected by measures to reduce greenhouse gases, subsumed under the term green transition. This transition is entangled in conflicting goals and interests. If these are not addressed, they will have potentially far-reaching implications for public acceptance of measures to mitigate climate change and society’s ability to reduce GHG and to adapt to the climate crisis. To explain, there are concrete, negative impacts on many communities that will affect people in certain parts of society disproportionately more than others. This includes the loss of jobs in certain industries and regions, nature destruction through mining of rare earth metals, or the construction of wind farms on traditional Sámi reindeer herding lands. All over Europe and in Sweden, local advocacy groups form in opposition to such projects. Their activities are often organised and communicated online, be it on Facebook, a mailing list, WhatsApp, or similar platforms that are open to the leakage of content from other groups and, importantly, other advocacy areas. I am interested in how the informational texture of advocacy issues related to the green transition is constituted by their interrelation with other (contested) issues, particularly online. I want to analyse the joining together of data fragments, i.e., fragments of facts, of conspiracy narratives, of anecdotal and other forms of evidence, etc., to map how or whether opposition to green transition initiatives links to the climate change countermovement. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: , 2024
Keywords
climate denial, disinformation
National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-33012 (URN)
Conference
The Nordic Network of Conspiracy Theory Research Inaugural Conference, 23-24 May 2024
Projects
Information Cultures, Data and Technology in Environmental Communication
Funder
Mistra - The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Mistra Environmental Communication
Available from: 2025-01-03 Created: 2025-01-03 Last updated: 2025-01-13Bibliographically approved
Fischer, A., Haider, J., Friman, E. & Holmgren, L. (2024). DN Debatt. ”Sverige riskerar att bli känt som klimatkrisens gulaschbaron”. Dagens nyheter
Open this publication in new window or tab >>DN Debatt. ”Sverige riskerar att bli känt som klimatkrisens gulaschbaron”
2024 (English)In: Dagens nyheterArticle in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Bonnier, 2024
National Category
Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-32491 (URN)
Note

Alla är verksamma inom forskningsprogrammet Mistra Environmental Communication https://www.slu.se/en/subweb/mistra-ec 

Available from: 2024-09-03 Created: 2024-09-03 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
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 Misinformation Review, 5(5), 1-16
Open this publication in new window or tab >>GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation
2024 (English)In: Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, Vol. 5, no 5, p. 1-16Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers alongside reputable, quality-controlled research. Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing. The resulting enhanced potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, is a growing concern.

National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-32501 (URN)10.37016/mr-2020-156 (DOI)2-s2.0-85203691949 (Scopus ID)
Projects
Information Cultures, Data and Technology in Environmental Communication (Mistra Environmental Communication II, WP1)
Funder
Mistra - The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental ResearchMarcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation, 2020.0004
Available from: 2024-09-04 Created: 2024-09-04 Last updated: 2024-10-01Bibliographically approved
Haider, J. (2024). Tracing the Climate Change Counter Movement across platforms. Reflections on the role of search engines.: Invited talk. In: : . Paper presented at RAT (Results Assessment Tool) Community Meeting, 27 September 2024. Hamburg
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Tracing the Climate Change Counter Movement across platforms. Reflections on the role of search engines.: Invited talk
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The climate change counter-movement (CCCM) is active on many fronts. Lately, it seems that an opportunistic exploitation of already established conspiracy narratives is increasingly tapping into the discontent of groups negatively affected by the green transition and forging new coalitions. Much of this is happening on social media. But search engines also play an important but poorly understood role. This talk draws on data created with the Result Assessment Tool (RAT) to explore and illustrate some aspects of this. As this is a work in progress, the talk is also seen as an opportunity to discuss methods and empirical choices with the RAT community.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Hamburg: , 2024
Keywords
climate denial, disinformation
National Category
Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-33013 (URN)
Conference
RAT (Results Assessment Tool) Community Meeting, 27 September 2024
Projects
Information Cultures, Data and Technology in Environmental Communication
Funder
Mistra - The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Mistra Environmental Communication
Available from: 2025-01-03 Created: 2025-01-03 Last updated: 2025-01-13Bibliographically approved
Organisations

Search in DiVA

Show all publications