Publications

Johansson Sydqvist, V. (2025). Counterdata Activities of the Unaccounted-For: The Case of Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome Sufferers in Sweden. (Panel abstract and presentation).7^th Nordic STS Conference: STS in and out of the Laboratory, June 11-13, 2025, Stockholm. [Panel 31. The production and use of official statistics].

Lindh, M. & Johansson Sydqvist, V. (2025). Policy takers or policy makers? Internet use and privacy in Swedish public libraries. Library Quarterly.

Stenlund, J., Schönborn, K. & Johansson Sydqvist, V. (2024). Visualization of deep evolutionary time: looking back and looking forward. Journal of Biological Education, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00219266.2024.2420014

Hicks, A., Pilerot, O., Coelho Bezerra, A., Haider, J., Hirvonen, N., Johansson, V., & Schneider, M. (2023). Theorising Information Literacy : Opportunities and Constraints. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60, 789—792. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.862

Johansson, V. (2023). Critical literacy and critical design. In Hicks, A., Lloyd, A. & Pilerot, O. (eds.), Information Literacy through Theory, Facet, pp. 111—129. https://www.routledge.com/Information-Literacy-Through-Theory/Hicks-Lloyd-Pilerot/p/book/9781783305896

Johansson, V. & Lindh, M. (2023). Limited knowledge and informal lobbying: internet regulation through content filters in Swedish public libraries. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 21(3), pp. 243—258. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-12-2022-0105/full/html

Nonthacumjane, P., & Johansson, V. (2023). Shaping local information in Thailand: hidden contradictions in the digitisation activities of the Provincial University Library Network (PULINET).Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 55(1), 246–258. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006221143101

Johansson, V. (2022). Information experiences and practices of COVID longhaulers in Sweden. (Part of panel abstract). Experiential Information, Body, and Authority. Panel, by N. Hirvonen, L. Engström, A. Huttunen, V. Johansson & A-M. Multas. Presented at CoLIS: 11th International Conference on the Conceptions of Library and Information Science, Oslo, May 29—June 1, 2022. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-28259

Johansson, V., & Lindh, M. (2022). Survey questionnaire: internet use in public libraries – policy, practice and pedagogy. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7395918

Johansson, V. & Nonthacumjane, P. (2022). Representational work and ‘reverse order’ essentialism: digitisation of local information in Thailand and Bhabha’s Third Space. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 55(2), pp. 515—530. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006221143100

Johansson, V., Wänström, L., Ramme, K., Nilsdotter Swartswe, J., & Kallio, S. (2022). Survey questionnaire: health impacts and information needs in “long-COVID” (Version 2). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7317123

Haider, J., Johansson, V. & Hammarfelt, B. (2021). Time and temporality in library and information science. Journal of Documentation, 78(1), 1—17. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JD-09-2021-0171/full/html

Johansson, V. & Stenlund, J. (2021). Making time/breaking time: critical literacy and politics of time in data visualisation. Journal of Documentation, 78(1), 60—82. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JD-12-2020-0210/full/html

Johansson, V., Wänström, L., Ramme, K., Kallio, S. & Kayvan Mojir, K. (2021). Crowdsourcing Long COVID Sweden (CiLC-S): exploring digital methods and voluntary health data for research and response in social crises. Presented at the Information Science Trends – The ASIS&T European Chapter Research Series. June 09—11, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4902175

Johansson, V. & Lindh, M. (2020). Skyddsvärden i vågskålen: internet på folkbibliotek – ideologi, juridik och praktik. [Values in the Balancing Scale: Internet in Public Libraries – Ideology, Law and Practice]. With contributions from Jonas Holm, LL. M. (Report). Gothenburg: The Cultural Development Administration, Västra Götaland Region. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-23960

Bonnefon, J-F., Cerny, D., Danaher, J., Devillier, N., Johansson, V., Kovacikova, T., Martens, M., Mladenovic, M., Palade, P., Reed, N., Santoni de Sio, F., Tsinorema, S., Wachter, S. & Zawieska, K. (2020). Horizon 2020 Commission Expert Group to advise on specific ethical issues raised by driverless mobility (E03659). Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles: Recommendations on Road Safety, Privacy, Fairness, Explainability and Responsibility. Publication Office of the European Union: Luxembourg. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/89624e2c-f98c-11ea-b44f-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

Johansson, V. (2019). Kompetensbehov och trender för webbrelaterade yrken : Rapport baserad på intervjuer med professionsföreträdare. [Competence needs and trends for web related professions: Report based on interviews with professional representatives]. Borås: Borås University. http://hb.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1388378/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Johansson, V., & Limberg, L. (2017). Seeking critical literacies in information practices: reconceptualising critical literacy as situated and tool-mediated enactments of meaning. Information Research, 22(1). http://www.informationr.net/ir/22-1/colis/colis1611.html

Johansson, V. (2015). Bortom källkritik i nya informationslandskap. [Beyond source criticism in new information landscapes]. In I. Atlestam, H. Kindgren, B. Källgren, P. Lekholm, K. Wockatz & J. Öberg (eds.), Vidgade vyer, djupare kunskap : om bildning här och nu [Expanded views, deeper knowledge: on ’building’ here and now]. Cultural Heritage Preservation in Gothenburg, 75—79.

Johansson, V. (2014). Biblioteken och ‘den nya oljan’ : data och visualiseringar. [Libraries and the ’new oil’: data and visualisations]. In O. Sundin & J. Rivano Eckerdahl (eds.), Medie- och informationskunnighet – en forskningsantologi. [Media and information literacy – a research anthology]. The Swedish Library Association, 77—90.

Johansson, V. (2012). A Time and Place for Everything? Social Visualisation Tools and Critical Literacies. (Doctoral Diss.). Proceedings from Valfrid: 52. University of Borås. http://hdl.handle.net/2320/11462

Johansson, V. (2009). Berättelser i gränssnittet: kritiska kompetenser och interaktiva informationsresurser [Stories in the interface: critical competencies and interactive information resources]. In J. Hedman & A. Lundh, (eds.), Informationskompetenser: om lärande i informationspraktiker och informationssökning i lärandepraktiker [Information literacise: On Learning in Information Practices and Information Seeking in Learning Practices, 235—267. Learning & IT, vol. 1. Carlssons.

Johansson, V. (2004). Public Libraries as Democratic Intermediaries: Some Examples from Sweden. New Library World, 105(1/2), 47—59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03074800410515264

Johansson, V. (2004). Elektroniska dokument i informationspolitisk belysning: en fråga om makt, kontroll och förhandlingar [Electronic documents in an information policy perspective: a question of power, control and negotiations]. Human IT, 7(2), 197—264. http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-7/vj.pdf

Johansson, V. (2004). Förutsättningar för lärande: märkning av elektroniska dokument. En kunskapsöversikt. [Conditions for learning: markup of electronic documents]. Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås.

Johansson, V. (2003). Electronic Publishing Ventures in the 21st Century – Calls for Future Research. In Information Policy and the European Union. Proceedings of the 11th Bobcatsss Symposium, 2003, in Torún, Poland. Amsterdam: The Professional University of Amsterdam, Institute for Media and Information Management & Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun, Department for Library and Information Management.