Claes Thorén
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Institutionen för informatik och media
- E-mail:
- claes.thoren@im.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum (plan 3)
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Intresseorganisationer och studentkårer; Personalorganisationer; Saco-S vid Uppsala universitet
- Visiting address:
- Thunbergsvägen 7A
- Postal address:
- Box 533
751 21 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
My research concerns the consequences of digitalization for societies, organizations, groups and individuals, more recently with special emphasis on technological (digital) disengagement and issues of resistance, detraction, and disillusionment that sometimes arise in connection with digitalisation. What constitutes meaningful technological encounters is an increasingly important issue in today's post-digital society.
Keywords
- cultural theory
- digital society
- digitalization
- materiality
- mediatization
- network analysis
- organizational communication
- practice theory
- social ontologies
- socio-materiality
- technology non-use
Biography
2014- Senior lecturer at the institution of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University
2013-2014 Researcher at the institution of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University
2008-2013 PhD candidate at the Swedish Research School MIT, stationed at Karlstad University
2006-2008 Master of Arts programme in Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK (MA distinction)
2003-2005 General BA English Literature, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
2000-2008 Adjunct Lecturer at the department of Information Systems, Karlstad University
1998-2000 Database Administrator at the National Service Administration
1995-1998 Systems Analysis program (BSc in Information Systems)
Other interests include:
- Composing music in a project called Spectral Hours
Publications
Selection of publications
- Pen, Paper, Dice... Screen? (2021)
- The Hipster's Dilemma (2019)
- Replicants, Imposters and the Real Deal (2015)
- Through the Printing Press (2014)
Recent publications
- The Modular Journey (2022)
- Från ideal till golv (2021)
- En studie om att leda digitala transformationer i komplexa verksamheter (2021)
- Going cold turkey! (2021)
- ‘Deleted User’ (2021)
All publications
Articles
- The Modular Journey (2022)
- Going cold turkey! (2021)
- Pen, Paper, Dice... Screen? (2021)
- When Facebook Becomes Faithbook (2021)
- The Hipster's Dilemma (2019)
- Digital Disconnect and Assemblages of Power (2018)
- Voicing the Puppet (2018)
- Facebook usage in a local government (2016)
- Replicants, Imposters and the Real Deal (2015)
- Through the Printing Press (2014)
Chapters
Conferences
- Digital Is Not A Technology! (2019)
- Mediatizing institutional work (2017)
- There is (too much) pragmatics in non-use to be pragmatic about it (2016)
- Beyond the digital divide (2016)