Björn Ekström

I work as a lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden. I write about how information is sought, shared, organized, produced, and otherwise dealt with in relation to environmental matters, novel technologies and/or scholarly work. My main interests include citizen science, multispecies relations and issues of representing environmental aspects by way of generative artificial intelligence. Acknowledging methodological flexibility, I tend to work with qualitative and digital research methods.

Selected publications

Ekström, B., & Haider, J. (in press). A methodology for analysing informational textures: Skipping stones and noticing the ripples. Journal of Documentation. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2025-0163

Ekström, B., & Pilerot, O. (2026). Distributed agency and materiality in biodiversity citizen science. In N. Sohljoo (Ed.), Multispecies Information Science (p. 186–200). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003583424

Ekström, B., Engström, L., & Haider, J. (2025). Foundation models’ acceptable use policies disregard the environment and nature. Nature Machine Intelligence, 7(11), 1771-1772. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-01134-3

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