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Eklund, Niklas, ProfessorORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-1856-9097
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Rød, B., Pursiainen, C. & Eklund, N. (2025). Combatting disinformation – how do we create resilient societies?: literature review and analytical framework. European Journal for Security Research
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Combatting disinformation – how do we create resilient societies?: literature review and analytical framework
2025 (English)In: European Journal for Security Research, ISSN 2365-0931, E-ISSN 2365-1695Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

This article addresses the critical issue of societal resilience in the face of disinformation, particularly in highly digitized democratic societies. Recognizing the escalating impact of disinformation as a significant threat to societal security, the study conducts a scoping review of the literature from 2018 to 2022 to explore the current understanding and approaches to countering this challenge. The core contribution of the article is the development of a preliminary typological framework that addresses key elements and issue areas relevant to societal resilience to disinformation. This framework spans multiple dimensions, including legal/regulatory, educational, political/governance, psychological/social-psychological, and technological domains. By synthesizing existing knowledge and filling identified gaps, the framework aims to serve as a foundational tool for empirical analyses and the enhancement of resilience strategies. One of the innovative aspects of the proposed framework is its potential to be transformed into a computable and customizable tool. This tool would measure the maturity level of various countermeasures against disinformation, thereby providing a practical methodology for planning and implementing effective democratic responses to disinformation. The article emphasizes the importance of this framework as both a conceptual and practical guide. It offers valuable insights for a wide range of civil society actors, including policymakers, educators, and technologists, in their efforts to protect information integrity and bolster societal resilience. By laying the groundwork for a more comprehensive understanding of societal resilienceto disinformation, the article contributes to the broader discourse on informationprotection and provides actionable guidance for addressing the evolving challengesposed by disinformation in democratic societies.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2025
Keywords
Disinformation, Fake news, Misinformation, Propaganda, Societal resilience
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-236878 (URN)10.1007/s41125-025-00105-4 (DOI)
Funder
The Research Council of Norway, 326210
Available from: 2025-03-26 Created: 2025-03-26 Last updated: 2025-03-26
Lilja, J., Eklund, N. & Tottie, E. (2024). Civic literacy and disinformation in democracies. Social Sciences, 13(8), Article ID 405.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Civic literacy and disinformation in democracies
2024 (English)In: Social Sciences, E-ISSN 2076-0760, Vol. 13, no 8, article id 405Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this study is to explore civic literacy as an approach to counter disinformationin democracies. From group interviews, we elicit, categorize, and analyze diverse perspectives ondisinformation in Sweden, previously upheld as a country with high civic literacy levels. We focuson people’s understandings of disinformation, their assessment of their own abilities to discern disinformation, and their ideas about how increased resilience to disinformation could be achieved. Ourfindings, based on input from 73 interviewees across Sweden, suggest that shared basic knowledgeon disinformation is lacking. Moreover, there is a related weak understanding of what constitutesauthentic information. Those with low awareness operate on a logic of beliefs, implying that measuresto improve factuality and objectivity could not even be aspired for. Still, there are also constituentsshowing advanced understandings. The majority of respondents call for new measures to strengthencitizen knowledge and skills and generate many proposals to that end. Our results indicate thatcitizen competence needs to increase considerably to keep up with the rapidly evolving disinformation environment. A concerted drive to boost citizen knowledge and skills, tailored to differentconstituencies, is needed for the democratic system to work as intended.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI, 2024
Keywords
disinformation, fake news, civic literacy, democracy, Sweden
National Category
Social Sciences Media and Communication Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-228213 (URN)10.3390/socsci13080405 (DOI)001307575300001 ()2-s2.0-85202487122 (Scopus ID)
Funder
The Research Council of Norway, 326210
Available from: 2024-08-05 Created: 2024-08-05 Last updated: 2025-02-17Bibliographically approved
Eklund, N. (2023). Att leda skolan, en politiskt styrd organisation (6ed.). In: Viola Boström (Ed.), Skoljuridik: (pp. 39-61). Stockholm: Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Att leda skolan, en politiskt styrd organisation
2023 (Swedish)In: Skoljuridik / [ed] Viola Boström, Stockholm: Liber, 2023, 6, p. 39-61Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2023 Edition: 6
National Category
Political Science
Research subject
political science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-206186 (URN)978-91-47-14676-5 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-03-30 Created: 2023-03-30 Last updated: 2023-03-30Bibliographically approved
Eklund, N., Eklund Wimelius, M. & Elfving, J. (2023). Russian ideas of peace and peacekeeping. In: Anna Jarstad; Johanna Söderström; Malin Åkebo (Ed.), Relational peace practices: (pp. 27-50). Manchester: Manchester University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Russian ideas of peace and peacekeeping
2023 (English)In: Relational peace practices / [ed] Anna Jarstad; Johanna Söderström; Malin Åkebo, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023, p. 27-50Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023
Series
New Approaches to Conflict Analysis
National Category
Political Science
Research subject
political science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-208448 (URN)2-s2.0-85170182024 (Scopus ID)9781526168962 (ISBN)9781526168955 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-05-24 Created: 2023-05-24 Last updated: 2023-09-18Bibliographically approved
Nilsson, L. M. & Eklund, N. (2022). 瑞典于默奥大学(Umeå University)北极中心:通过战略网络促进和支持北极研究: [Arctic Centre at Umeå University, Sweden: promoting and supporting Arctic research through strategic networking]. Journal of Arctic Studies, 2, 333-340
Open this publication in new window or tab >>瑞典于默奥大学(Umeå University)北极中心:通过战略网络促进和支持北极研究: [Arctic Centre at Umeå University, Sweden: promoting and supporting Arctic research through strategic networking]
2022 (Chinese)In: Journal of Arctic Studies, Vol. 2, p. 333-340Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

When established in 2012, the Arctic Centre of Umeå University (Arcum) became the first cohesive center for Arctic research in Sweden. Since then, strategic networking on all levels has grown. Today, Arcum’s local network includes more than 250 researchers from all faculty areas. Nationally and internationally, Arcum collaborates with a large number of universities and research facilities and associates with organizations and networks such as University of the Arctic (UArctic), International Arctic Social Science Association (IASSA), International Congress of Circumpolar Health (ICCH) and China Nordic Arctic Research Centre (CNARC). Arcum strives towards multidisciplinarity and a broad definition of Arctic research. For example, a bibliometric analysis of the period 2012 – 2020 illustrates the progress in Arctic profiling and how Arcum’s local network has produced close to 1,600 peer-reviewed papers. The majority of these are related to science and medicine, but a fair share also representing the social sciences and humanities, mirroring an increasing interest in the human dimension of Arctic existence. We conclude that strategic networking has been an efficient tool for strengthening the Arctic profile and related research at Umeå University. The recent organizational reform and reorientation towards spin-offs and graduate research is likely to enhance this successful trend.

 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China: The Arctic Studies Center (ASC), 2022
Keywords
Arctic centre, Arctic research, bibliometrics
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-203725 (URN)
Note

Artikeln är submittad på engelska men sedan översatt och publicerad på kinesiska.

Available from: 2023-01-19 Created: 2023-01-19 Last updated: 2023-01-26Bibliographically approved
Eklund, N., Landström, L. & Henning-Mäki, A.-K. (2021). Att bidra till polisiär vidareutbildning och professionalisering i brytningstid. In: Staffan Karp; Lars-Erik Lauritz (Ed.), Samverkan för framgång: 20 år med polisutbildningen i Umeå (pp. 115-130). Umeå: Umeå universitet, Enheten för polisutbildningen
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Att bidra till polisiär vidareutbildning och professionalisering i brytningstid
2021 (Swedish)In: Samverkan för framgång: 20 år med polisutbildningen i Umeå / [ed] Staffan Karp; Lars-Erik Lauritz, Umeå: Umeå universitet, Enheten för polisutbildningen , 2021, p. 115-130Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Umeå: Umeå universitet, Enheten för polisutbildningen, 2021
Keywords
Förundersökningsledare, Mellanchef, Vidareutbildning, Polisen
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
police science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-190140 (URN)978-91-7855-689-2 (ISBN)978-91-7855-690-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-12-07 Created: 2021-12-07 Last updated: 2022-03-28Bibliographically approved
Eklund, N. (2021). Recent changes to Swedish security policy: an Arctic turn?. In: Duncan Depledge; P. Whitney Lackenbauer (Ed.), On thin ice?: perspectives on Arctic security (pp. 152-161). Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network, Trent University
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Recent changes to Swedish security policy: an Arctic turn?
2021 (English)In: On thin ice?: perspectives on Arctic security / [ed] Duncan Depledge; P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network, Trent University , 2021, p. 152-161Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network, Trent University, 2021
Series
NAADSN Engage Series ; 5
National Category
Political Science
Research subject
political science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-182261 (URN)978-1-989811-14-6 (ISBN)978-1-989811-13-9 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-04-15 Created: 2021-04-15 Last updated: 2021-08-11Bibliographically approved
Landström, L., Eklund, N. & Naarttijärvi, M. (2020). Legal limits to prioritisation in policing: challenging the impact of centralisation. Policing & society, 30(9), 1061-1080
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Legal limits to prioritisation in policing: challenging the impact of centralisation
2020 (English)In: Policing & society, ISSN 1043-9463, E-ISSN 1477-2728, Vol. 30, no 9, p. 1061-1080Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article illustrates, through a combination of administrative and legal perspectives, how ambitions to centralise prioritisation decisions within a police organisation can be limited by the legal rules relating to crime investigations and public order policing. As a case study, we use the centralisation of the Swedish Police, a reform intending to reduce the previously far-reaching operational independence of regional police authorities in favour of a centralised and uniform single authority. Through this case study, we analyse the interaction between the legal and institutional frameworks of policing and prosecution, including positive obligations enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. We conclude that legal responsibilities affecting the Swedish Police may significantly limit the possibility for managers and officers to de-prioritise many cases and public order concerns, which, in turn, may limit the ability to divert resources to other—centrally prioritised—tasks. Failure to account for such limits may cause reform ambitions to collide with legal responsibilities in day-to-day operative policing. The results indicate that research into organisational reform and police prioritisation may benefit from a more systemic analysis of the legal and institutional factors limiting institutional discretion.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2020
Keywords
Policing, prioritisation, discretion, centralisation, positive obligations, Polis, prioriteringar, skön, centralisering, positiva skyldigheter
National Category
Law (excluding Law and Society) Public Administration Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-162063 (URN)10.1080/10439463.2019.1634717 (DOI)000479566400001 ()2-s2.0-85087757672 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, SGO14-1173:1
Available from: 2019-08-12 Created: 2019-08-12 Last updated: 2025-02-21Bibliographically approved
Eklund, N. (2020). Security perspectives from Sweden (1ed.). In: Gunhild Hooghensen Gjörv, Marc Lanteigne and Horatio Sam-Aggey (Ed.), Routledge handbook of Arctic security: (pp. 208-217). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Security perspectives from Sweden
2020 (English)In: Routledge handbook of Arctic security / [ed] Gunhild Hooghensen Gjörv, Marc Lanteigne and Horatio Sam-Aggey, Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2020, 1, p. 208-217Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this chapter, some of the core ideas underpinning Swedish security policy are described and discussed. In an effort to tease out whether or not these ideas also have an Arctic dimension, their contemporary scope and meaning in the Swedish political context is illustrated by ideas concerning geopolitical framing, agenda-setting, and military doctrine. The 2011–2013 Swedish chairmanship of the Arctic Council stands out both as a starting point and as an ideational vanguard for Swedish ideas about Arctic security. The chapter concludes that the Swedish chairmanship represented a unique opportunity to shift security perceptions, but that this did not happen. Swedish security perceptions seem to remain firmly rooted in the Baltic Sea Region. Short of outright military conflict, a domestic political sea change regarding NATO membership can be seen as the potential "game changer."

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2020 Edition: 1
National Category
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
Research subject
political science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-168369 (URN)10.4324/9781315265797-18 (DOI)2-s2.0-85108469841 (Scopus ID)9781138227996 (ISBN)9781315265797 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-02-20 Created: 2020-02-20 Last updated: 2021-06-30Bibliographically approved
Eklund, N. & Landström, L. (2019). Effektivare för vem?: chefsuppfattningar om den nya styrningen av svensk polis. Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift, 96(1), 35-55
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Effektivare för vem?: chefsuppfattningar om den nya styrningen av svensk polis
2019 (Swedish)In: Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift, ISSN 0029-1285, Vol. 96, no 1, p. 35-55Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Köpenhamn: Djøf Forlag, 2019
Keywords
Polisen, styrning, effektivitet
National Category
Political Science
Research subject
political science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-161260 (URN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, SGO14-1173:1
Available from: 2019-07-01 Created: 2019-07-01 Last updated: 2019-07-03Bibliographically approved
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