Ann-Sofie Axelsson
Duties Since 2019, Ann-Sofie Axelsson has held the dual role of Head of the Department of Communication and Learning in Science and Library Director of Chalmers Library. Prior to this, she was most recently associated with the University of Borås, where she served as Head of the Department of Library and Information Science /The Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), and subsequently as Head of the Faculty of Librarianship, Education and IT. Ann-Sofie Axelsson currently holds the following external assignments, member of the SUHF Expert Group for University Libraries, member of the SUHF Working Group for Digitilazation, member of Swepub's Development Council, member of the Steering Group for Program Activities at Jonsereds Manor, and member of the Karolinska Institute Library Council Ann-Sofie Axelsson also serves as Chair of the Chalmers Digitalisation Council, leading the coordination activities of Chalmers' digitalization efforts in that capacity. Ann-Sofie Axelsson earned her doctoral degree in 2004 from the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers, with a thesis focusing on social interaction in virtual environments. In the same department, she became an associate professor in 2010, continuing her research on knowledge-intensive organizations, mobile telephony, and digital advertising. Throughout the years, Ann-Sofie Axelsson's teaching has focused on the interaction between social change and IT development, as well as sustainable development. Ann-Sofie Axelsson is a member of the editorial board of the LIBER Quarterly journal.
Research and Teaching
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A view from the inside Integrating the University Library within an Academic Department
Digital advertising campaigns and the branded economy
A socio-economic exploration of mobile phone service have-nots in Sweden
Living Offline - A Qualitative Study of Internet Non-Use in Great Britain and Sweden
Perpetual and personal: Swedish young adults and their use of mobile phones
Making it Open and Keeping it Safe: e-Enabled Data-Sharing in Sweden
Exploring New Ways of Working using Virtual Research Environments in Library and Information Science
Bildning i den tekniska högskolan
Anyone speak Swedish? Tolerance for language shifting in graphical multi-user virtual environmnets
Making it Open and Keeping it Safe: e-Enabled Data Sharing in Sweden and Related Issues
Avatars at Work and Play. Activities in Shared Virtual Environments
The good inequality: Supporting group-work in shared virtual environments
Needs and Challenges with Respect to Establishing a Collaboratory
Immersiveness and Symmetry in Copresent Scenarios
How Belonging to an Online Group Affects Social Behavior – A Case Study of Asheron's Call
How Putting Yourself into the Other Person´s Virtual Shoes Enhances Collaboration
Is there a Trade-off between Presence and Copresence?
Communication in Virtual Environments: Establishing Common Ground for a Collaborative Spatial Task
Strangers and Friends in Networked Immersive Environments: Virtual Spaces for Future Living
How Belonging to an Online Group Affects Social Behavior – a Case study of Asheron’s Call
The Digital Divide - Status Differences in Virtual Environments
The Long-term Uses of Shared Virtual Environments. An Exploratory Study
Cubes in the Cube: A Comparison of a Puzzle-Soving Task in a Virtual and a Real Environment
Collaborating in networked immersive spaces: as good as being there together?
Anyone Speak Spanish? Language Encounters in Virtual Environments - A Study of Active Worlds
Long-term Uses of Collaborative Virtual Environments
Trust in the Core: A Study of Long-term Users of Activeworlds
The Collaborative Cube Puzzle: A Comparison of Virtual and Real Environments
A comparison of Virtual and Real Environments
Cubes in the Cube: A Comparison of Virtual and Real Environments
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