Anna Suorsa

• PhD
• University of Oulu

Society's trust in research-based knowledge relies heavy on following good research practices. Research information is utilised at different stages of a decision-making process insociety. Research-based knowledge can provide a background for the goals of the government’s proposals and justify the significance of the measures needed to achieve these...

Samhällets förtroende för forskningsdata är starkt beroende av att god forskningspraxis efterlevs. Forskningsdata utnyttjas i olika skeden av den samhälleliga beslutsprocessen. Med forskningsdata kan man ge en bakgrund till målen i regeringens propositioner och underbygga åtgärdernas betydelse för att uppnåmålen. Tillförlitligheten i det samhälleli...

In this conceptual paper I suggest that hermeneutic phenomenological view on humans in the world can lay a premise to understand our embodied, dialogical way of living in the world with information of all kinds. This gives us ethical stance to the development of information‐intensive world and points out our limits as human beings. First, I explica...

Introduction. This study investigates information practices to develop multi-professional work in the planning of healthy living environments in and around urban planning. Method. A qualitative approach was used to study information practices in two city organisations in Finland. 16 professionals working in urban planning, urban planning, traffic,...

Report of the PANDEMICS-research programme.

In this study, conceptual development and interactive practices related to it in face-to-face discussions of a working community to find out, how new knowledge on an issue important for the working community is created in organizational settings. Ethnographic approach is used to examine the process of knowledge creation. Videotaped face-to-face dis...

The purpose of this recommendation is to provide research organisations and their funders as well as other organisations operating in the interface of the civil society with principles and guidelines for promoting citizen science. The recommendation provides answers to questions on how to make citizen science projects more appealing to researchers...

Syftet med denna rekommendation är att ge forskningsorganisationer och deras finansiärer samt andra organisationer som verkar i vetenskapssamfundets gränssnitt principer och anvisningar för att främja medborgarforskning. Rekommendationen ger svar på frågor om hur medborgarforskningsprojekt kan göras mer lockande för forskare och hur medborgarforskn...

The aim of this study is to contribute to the understanding of Information Literacy (IL) in relation to knowledge creation in organizational settings. IL is understood as a practice realized in the course of action, emphasizing the social and interactive aspects of the phenomenon. There is a need to increase understanding of the role of IL in knowl...

Covid-19 pandemic has caused a massive transformation in K-12 settings towards online education. It is important to explore the factors that facilitate online teaching technology adoption of teachers during the pandemic. The aim of this study was to compare Learning Management System (LMS) acceptance of Finnish K-12 teachers who have been using a s...

An emerging body of literature has begun to address the earlier under‐researched topic of information creation. This panel inquires into the state‐of‐the‐art of research on information creation to highlight how different conceptualisations of information creation can foreground various key aspects of how information is made and produced, what types...

The commercial launch of 6G communications systems and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, UN SDGs, are both targeted for 2030. 6G communications is expected to boost global growth and productivity, create new business models and transform many aspects of society. The UN SDGs are a way of framing opportunities and challenges of a desirabl...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine knowledge-creating interaction in developing an innovation in a multidisciplinary research community with hermeneutic phenomenology, to understand how previous experiences and future prospects shape the process and to examine the circumstances, which support or limit knowledge creation. Design/method...

When the American Library Association developed and approved the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, librarians at many institutions began to attempt implementation. The Framework marked a conceptual and practical break from the past of information literacy standards, so substantial re-tooling become necessary. The present paper...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for empirically studying knowledge creation (KC) with phenomenological approach and propose that understanding interaction as play conceptualized by Hans-Georg Gadamer allows examining KC starting from the idea of a human being interacting in the events of co-creation. The presented framew...

FM Anna Suorsan väitöskirja "Vuorovaikutus tiedon luomisessa. Fenomenologinen tutkimus tietojohtamisen alalla" (Interaction for knowledge creation. A phenomenological study in Knowledge Management) tarkastettiin 31.3.2017 Oulun yliopiston humanistisessa tiedekunnassa. Vastaväittäjänä toimi professori John M. Budd (University of Missouri, USA) ja ku...

Recent research of knowledge creation suggests, that knowledge is created in interaction, especially in the events of interaction between two or more persons Research has indicated, that the atmosphere and form of these events is crucial-they determine if knowledge is created or not While the importance of the event of interaction has been acknowle...

At CoLIS 9, we facilitated a panel session entitled "Phenomenology in library and information science: studying information experiences." In this article, we discuss the unfolding of that panel. We begin by situating discussions of phenomenology in the historical thrust of information research. We then describe the content and summarize the key dis...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiential nature of knowledge creating interaction and to introduce a framework to explore it theoretically coherently with hermeneutic phenomenology and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s concept of play. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a literature-based conceptual analysis of the conc...

Introduction. A framework is introduced for examining interaction in which information and knowledge is shared, used and created in organizational settings. Method. A qualitative approach was applied to examine the phenomenon of knowledge creation by focusing on the events of interaction. The data are the notes from semi-structured observation and...

This study explores the effect of interaction in research on knowledge creation (KC) and its dependence on the conceptualization of a human being. A framework for understanding KC with hermeneutic phenomenology is developed, based on an analysis of recent KC research and key texts on hermeneutic phenomenology. The results obtained indicate that rec...

Vuorovaikutuksen käsite tiedon luomisen nykytutkimuksessa [ Concept of interaction in contemporary research of knowledge creation] Informaatiotutkimus 31(1), 2012. In this article I explore how the concept of interaction is used in the field of knowl-edge management (KM). My concern is the study of knowledge creation. I examine the ways in which kn...

Teatterissa kohtaan esityksen, joka tapahtuu edessäni, ympärilläni, jatkuvasti jonkinlaista kokonaisuutta rakentaen. Kohtaan myös ihmiset, jotka kaltaisinani tekevät kohtaamisesta ennakoimattoman. Tutkimuksessani kysyn, mitä teatterin kohtaamisessa tapahtuu ja miten kohtaaminen on mahdollista teatterin julkisessa tilassa, jossa on paljon ennalta su...