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Johanna Sefyrin

Associate Professor, Head of Division

My research area is broadly defined as the design of information technologies. Design as a collaborative effort to create a world in which there is room for everyone.

Research on knowledge, participation, power, and gender in IT design

My research area is design – in the broad sense – ofinformation technologies, design as a collaborative effort to create a world in which everyone has a place; a social and material practice that takes place in different contexts and at different levels.

Key areas of my research are knowledge, participation, power, and gender in the design of information technologies. I have primarily studied these issues in the context of the digitization of the public sector, and I am currently involved in two research projects: one dealing with alarm and rescue systems, where I focus on gender issues related to information technologies in this area, and one dealing with smart grids, where we ask critical questions about the potential effects of information technologies in this context.

Publications

2025

Johanna Sefyrin (2025) Sustainable datacentres and eco-modernist frictions in Sweden Information, Communication and Society (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Johanna Sefyrin, Ida Lindgren, Daniel Toll (2024) RPA and Robot Imaginaries in Swedish Local Government - Terminator or Colleague of the Month? ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT, EGOV 2024, p. 270-285 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI

2023

Malin Granath, Johanna Sefyrin, Björn Johansson (2023) The smart meter as a boundary object-insights from an empirical case European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2023 (Conference paper)
Maria Eidenskog, Ola Leifler, Johanna Sefyrin, Ericka Johnson, Mikael Asplund (2023) Changing the world one engineer at a time - unmaking the traditional engineering education when introducing sustainability subjects International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 24, p. 70-84 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2022

Johanna Sefyrin, Mariana S. Gustafsson (2022) Repair of Unstable Sociomaterial Relations: A Study on Librarians' and Social Workers' Practices in Addressing the Needs of Their Clients HUMAN CHOICE AND DIGITAL BY DEFAULT: AUTONOMY VS DIGITAL DETERMINATION, HCC 2022, p. 36-46 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI

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