2024-03-28T23:01:23Z
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/do/oai/
oai:works.bepress.com:susan_knabe-1002
2024-03-28T23:01:21Z
publication:susan_knabe
oai:works.bepress.com:susan_knabe-1005
2010-06-14T00:57:12Z
publication:susan_knabe
oai:works.bepress.com:susan_knabe-1004
2010-06-14T00:26:37Z
publication:susan_knabe
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1000
2009-06-06T02:10:35Z
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publication:faculties
The Political Economy of Canada's Video and Computer Game Industry
Dyer-Witheford, Nick
Sharman, Zena
Article
2005-01-01T08:00:00Z
new media industry
interactive game business
Canadian video and computer game industry
Canadian Journal of Communication
187
210
Communication Technology and New Media
Film and Media Studies
Political Economy
Video and computer games are a burgeoning new media industry with global revenues rivaling those of film and music. This article, reporting on a three-year SSHRC-funded research project, analyzes the political economy of Canadian involvement in the interactive game business. After an overview of companies, ownership, markets and regional distribution, it discusses the developmental dynamics and contradictions of the Canadian industry in terms of capital, state, and labour. It concludes by reviewing different ways these interweaving forces may ‘play out’ and their implications for policy decisions affecting the Canadian video and computer game industry.
Published in: Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 30, No 2 (2005).
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/1
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1001
2009-06-06T02:17:34Z
publication:commpub
publication:fims
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publication:faculties
"EA Spouse" and the Crisis of Video Game Labour: Enjoyment, Exclusion, Exploitation, and Exodus
Dyer-Witheford, Nick
de Peuter, Greig S.
Article
2006-01-01T08:00:00Z
video game industry
crisis of labour
new media
Canadian Journal of Communication
599
617
Communication Technology and New Media
Film and Media Studies
Work, Economy and Organizations
The blog postings of “EA Spouse,” partner of an exhausted video game programmer, have catalyzed discussion of epidemic overwork in the digital play industry. This paper analyzes the crisis of labour in this glamorous new medium. After a brief overview of the industry and its production process, we discuss its labour conditions under four headings. “Enjoyment” examines the real pleasures game workers find at their jobs. “Exclusion” discusses the gendering of game work. “Exploitation” investigates the corporate processes that drive toward a work culture of extreme hours and the consequences game workers suffer. “Exodus” looks at current attempts by workers to escape this predicament — attempts including legal action, educational efforts, entrepreneurial flight, and union organizing.
Published in: Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 31, No 3 (2006).
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/2
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1002
2009-06-13T01:25:50Z
publication:commpub
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The Integrated News Spectacle, Live 8, and the Annihilation of Time
Compton, James R.
Comor, Edward
Article
2007-01-01T08:00:00Z
Live 8
news
broadband technologies
Spectacle
Time
Harold Innis
Canadian Journal of Communication
29
53
Communication Technology and New Media
Film and Media Studies
Journalism Studies
In this article, the recent strategic turn by U.S.-based media corporations toward the use of broadband technologies, particularly online video, is assessed as a turning point in how news is being conceptualized, distributed, and consumed. Using the heuristic tool the integrated news spectacle, and its application to political, economic, and technological developments propelled forward by the 2005 Live 8 concerts, the authors analyze contemporary trajectories concerning the news and their more general implications regarding what Innisians refer to as the annihilation of time.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/3
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1003
2009-06-13T01:27:46Z
publication:commpub
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Communicating Health Information: The Community Engagement Model for Video Production
Murphy, David
Balka, Ellen
Poureslami, Iraj
Leung, Diana E.
Nicol, Anne-Marie
Cruz, Trent
Article
2007-01-01T08:00:00Z
health communication
Community Engagement Model
social marketing
Video production
Participatory video
Multicultural
Community
Canadian Journal of Communication
383
400
Film and Media Studies
Health Communication
Public Health Education and Promotion
The Community Engagement Model was developed as a tool for the production of health communication videos for broadcast on local television stations. The model, a hybrid of participatory video design and social marketing techniques, uses iterative design principles for both production and evaluation. This article reports on the use of this model for the design and production of a series of videos aimed at promoting awareness of the BC NurseLine (a 24-hour telephone health service) among Farsi speakers in the Greater Vancouver area. Statistical analysis of project-related data suggests that the use of an extensive, culturally engaged process to produce and evaluate the videos was integral to its success. The steps taken in this campaign are described to show how the Community Engagement Model can be used to produce effective, culturally sensitive, participatory media targeted at specific communities.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/4
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1004
2009-06-13T01:23:49Z
publication:commpub
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
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Biotechnology, the Environment, and Alternative Media in Malaysia
Smeltzer, Sandra
Article
2008-01-01T08:00:00Z
biotechnology
alternative media
Malaysia
Environment
Canadian Journal of Communication
5
20
Film and Media Studies
Social Influence and Political Communication
The Malaysian government has embarked on an ambitious path to
make biotechnology a key driver of the country’s economic future. This burgeoning
sector is being developed by a state with a problematic environmental
track record, which does not bode well for the future. As mainstream Malaysian
media are heavily controlled through a range of restrictive laws and hegemonic
pressures to self-censor, critical coverage of biotechnology and its implicit ties
to the environment is, not surprisingly, sparse. The focus of this article, however,
is the relative scarcity of critical discussions about these issues in the country’s
vital alternative media. This article offers a number of suggestions for this shortfall,
including government restrictions on available information, the complexity
of relevant issues, a lack of recognition of the industry’s importance, and the tenuous
relationship between environmental NGOs and alternative media practitioners
and organizations.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/5
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1007
2010-02-12T03:38:48Z
publication:womenspub
publication:commpub
publication:womens
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:queerpub
publication:queercaucus
publication:institutes
publication:faculties
Viral Migrations: Fairy Tales of Family and Nation, Death and Disease
Knabe, Susan
Article
2002-10-01T07:00:00Z
science fiction
queer theory
homosexuality
literature
Foundation
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Film and Media Studies
This article is not available online here. If you are affiliated with The University of Western Ontario, please use the Shared Library Catalogue's <a href="http://alpha.lib.uwo.ca/" >Advanced Search</a> to check whether the journal in which this article was published is available in Western Libraries.<br>
If you are not affiliated with The University of Western Ontario, search <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/" >WorldCat</a> to find out how you can get access to the journal.<br>
Dr. Susan Knabe is currently a faculty member at The University of Western Ontario.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/6
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1006
2010-02-12T03:36:42Z
publication:womenspub
publication:commpub
publication:womens
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:queerpub
publication:queercaucus
publication:institutes
publication:faculties
Corporeal Resistance/Corporeal Reconciliation: Body and Language in Kiss of the Fur Queen
Knabe, Susan
Book Chapter
2003-01-01T08:00:00Z
Canadian literature
Kiss of the Fur Queen
Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority
Published as a book chapter in: <em>Connections</em>. Coomi Vevaina and Hartmut Lutz. (Eds.). The book is not available online here. If you are affiliated with The University of Western Ontario, please use the Shared Library Catalogue's <a href="http://alpha.lib.uwo.ca/">Advanced Search</a> to check whether the book is available in Western Libraries.<br>
If you are not affiliated with The University of Western Ontario, search <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/">WorldCat</a> to find out how you can get access to the book.<br>
Dr. Susan Knabe is currently a faculty member at The University of Western Ontario.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/7
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:fimspub-1022
2011-04-07T00:42:26Z
publication:commpub
publication:fimspub
publication:fims
publication:faculties
Mobilizing User-Generated Content For Canada’s Digital Advantage
Trosow, Samuel E.
Burkell, Jacquelyn
Dyer-Witheford, Nick
McKenzie, Pamela
McNally, Michael B.
Whippey, Caroline
Wong, Lola
Report
2010-12-01T08:00:00Z
Digital economy
User-generated content
Canada
Communication
Library and Information Science
<p>Executive Summary: The goal of the Mobilizing User-Generated Content for Canada’s Digital Content Advantage project is to define User-Generated Content (UGC) in its current state, identify successful models built for UGC, and anticipate barriers and policy infrastructure needed to sustain a model to leverage the further development of UGC to Canada's advantage. At the outset, we divided our research into three domains: creative content, small scale tools and collaborative user-generated content. User-generated creative content is becoming increasingly evident throughout the technological ecology through online platforms and online social networks where individuals develop, create and capture information and choose to distribute content through an online platform in a transformative manner. The Internet offers many tools and resources that simplify the various UGC processes and models. Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr and others provide functionality to upload content directly into the site itself, eliminating the need for formatting and conversion, and allowing almost instantaneous access to the content by the user’s social network. The successful sites have been able to integrate content creation, aggregation, distribution, and consumption into a single tool, further eroding some of the traditional dichotomies between content creators and end-users. Along with these larger scale resources, this study also treats small scale tools, which are tools, modifications, and applications that have been created by a user or group of users. There are three main categories of small scale tools. The first is game modifications, or add-ons, which are created by users/players in order to modify the game or assist in its play. The second is modifications, objects, or tools created for virtual worlds such as Second Life. Third, users create applications and tools for mobile devices, such as the iPhone or the Android system. The third domain considers UGC which is generated collaboratively. This category is comprised of wikis, open source software and creative content authored by a group rather than a sole individual. Several highly successful examples of collaborative UGC include Wikipedia, and open source projects such as the Linux operating system, Mozilla Firefox and the Apache platform. Major barriers to the production, distribution and aggregation of collaborative UGC are unduly restrictive intellectual property rights (including copyrights, licensing requirements and technological protection mechanisms). There are several crucial infrastructure and policies required to facilitate collaborative UGC. For example, in the area of copyright policy, a careful balance is needed to provide appropriate protection while still allowing downstream UGC creation. Other policy considerations include issues pertaining to technological protection mechanisms, privacy rights, consumer protection and competition. In terms of infrastructure, broadband internet access is the primary technological infrastructure required to promote collaborative UGC creation. There has recently been a proliferation of literature pertaining to all three of these domains, which are reviewed. Assessments are made about the most effective models and practices for each domain, as well as the barriers which impede further developments. This initial research is used as a basis for generating some tentative conclusions and recommendations for further research about the policy and technological infrastructures required to best mobilize and leverage user-generated content to create additional value in the digital economy internal and external to Canada. Policy recommendations based on this research focus on two principles: balancing the interest of both content owners and users, and creating an enabling environment in which UGC production, distribution, aggregation, and re-use can flourish.</p>
<p>Prepared for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada by the FIMS UGC Research Team at The University of Western Ontario.</p>
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fimspub/21
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:digitallabour-1013
2011-04-29T06:42:45Z
publication:commpub
publication:digitallabour
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:faculties
Gilbert Simondon and the Hypothesis of Cognitive Capitalism
Leonardi, Emanuele
Sociology
<p>This paper was presented at Paper Session 2a: Theories of Digital Labour. </p>
<p>The paper explores the relevance of Gilbert Simondon’s reflections on the notion of individuation for the development of the political and analytical hypothesis known as cognitive capitalism, recently proposed by economists such as Yann Moulier Boutang and Carlo Vercellone. The focus of their analysis is on the new exploitative dimensions of contemporary capitalism. Nowadays, exploitation is exercised on the process of individuation rather than on individuated entities. To theoretically grasp, and politically act upon, this unprecedented configuration, I argue that the Marxian notions of formal and real subsumption are still necessary but not longer sufficient. As a consequence, I will advance and discuss an original concept, that of impression, whose function is to supplement these Marxian notions in an attempt to understand the new modalities of contemporary exploitation. More specifically, the goal is to give a non- neutral account of what seems to be the categorical, albeit paradoxical, imperative of Post-Fordist capitalism: ‘be as different from the social norm as you wish, experience your autonomy in its fullness, as long as the outcome of your behaviour is translatable into the homogeneous grammar of the general equivalent – money’. To give empirical consistency to my analysis, I will attempt to apply the notion of impression to the post-welfare discourse of active social policies that aim to ‘empower’ the unemployed in and through the labour market.</p>
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:digitallabour-1014
2011-04-29T06:42:16Z
publication:commpub
publication:digitallabour
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:faculties
Digital Labour and Species-being
Dyer-Witheford, Nick
Sociology
<p>This paper was presented at Paper Session 2a: Theories of Digital Labour. </p>
<p>This paper places digital labour in the context of recently revived interest in the young Marx’s concept of ‘species-being’ (Gatungswesen). Cryptically and fragmentarily announced in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, but largely abandoned in Marx’s later work, the idea has passed in and then, apparently decisively, out, of fashion amongst his interpreters. But the first decade of the twenty- first century has seen a renewed interest surely due in part to the manifest capacities of electronic networks and biotechnologies to alter the cognitive and corporeal attributes of the human. After proposing an historical, rather than essentialist, understanding of Gatungswesen the paper goes on to suggest some categories that might be adequate to a situation where the stakes in class conflict are nothing less than the trajectory of a contemporary ‘species-becoming’: planet factory, futuristic accumulation, global worker, techno-finance, singularity capitalism, biocommunism.</p>
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:digitallabour-1016
2011-04-29T06:41:20Z
publication:commpub
publication:digitallabour
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:faculties
Content Management Systems and the Degradation of Intellectual Work in the 21st Century
McNally, Michael
Sociology
<p>This paper was presented at Paper Session 2b: Networked Organization. </p>
<p>Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Systems confer numerous advantages to corporations including superior data management, streamlining of office workflows and potential costs savings. However, a content analysis of ECM system technical white papers reveals that such systems are potentially disastrous to intellectual workers. The trends of increasing management control, routinization and deskilling observed and critiqued by Harry Braverman in the 20th century in industrial labour are fully realized in intellectual labour by such systems. In addition to the detailed surveillance capabilities of content management systems (CMS), the employer captures and retains the entire iterative history of the documents produced by its workers. Content management systems deskill workers by subdividing intellectual tasks into the smallest possible constituent parts and automating as many tasks as possible. Content management systems provide some potential opportunities for the reskilling of workers, but a critical examination of the effects of these systems is necessary to determine their exact influence on digital work.</p>
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:digitallabour-1018
2011-04-29T06:50:58Z
publication:commpub
publication:digitallabour
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
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5070: Digital Reputation, Representation, and New Forms of Value?
Hearn, Alison
Sociology
<p>This paper was presented at Paper Session 3 – Digital Labour in Representation. </p>
<p>Blogging, twittering, facebooking, posting videos on youtube, providing feedback on newspaper articles online or rating restaurants or hotels on tripadvisor, are often seen to be positive elements in the development of the digital public sphere. Academics and human resources experts alike laud the ways in which these activities contribute to the increasing circulation of ‘social capital’ or ‘reputation’, which we can see as a new form of currency and, more generally, value. This paper will examine these claims about the emerging economy in reputation, focusing specifically on the ways reputation has historically been defined and understood and how it is currently being aggregated, measured, structured and represented by specific business interests online. It will consider the uses to which these ratings, lists, scores and other forms of overt reputation building are being put and discuss whether they constitute forms of free labour. In the end, it will conclude that these practices herald a form of market discipline and affective conditioning, which, much like other more traditional kinds of value generation such as branding, function to direct human meaning-making and self-identity in highly motivated and profitable ways.</p>
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:digitallabour-1030
2011-04-29T17:32:06Z
publication:commpub
publication:digitallabour
Constructive Digital Labour in Restricted Media Environments: A Southeast Asian Case Study
Smeltzer, Sandra
Paré, Daniel J.
Sociology
<p>This paper was presented at Paper Session 5b: Internationalization. </p>
<p>Contemporary mainstream narratives about the relationship between technology and development often rhetorically construct technology as a symbol of modernity and a catalyst for further development. The argument developed in the pages that follow posits that revisiting the distinction between carriage and content as analytical constructs offers a useful means of investigating the power struggles at play in efforts to define what constitutes knowledge labour vis-à-vis the ICT sector in countries with restricted media environments. By extension, these power struggles over what constitutes ‘productive’ labour represent contesting views about development in general. Drawing on Malaysia as a case study, we examine how this distinction plays out on the ground and assess its implications for local knowledge labour.</p>
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:digitallabour-1034
2011-04-29T17:53:29Z
publication:commpub
publication:digitallabour
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
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“Free Labour” in “Free Time”: Prosumption, Digital Technologies and the Commodification of Time
Comor, Edward
Sociology
<p>This paper was presented at Paper Session 6a: Free Labour in the Web 2.0 Era. </p>
<p>Since the hybrid producer-consumer – the prosumer – was conceptualized three decades ago, prosumption has been embraced by both mainstream and progressive analysts. With digital technologies enabling more people to engage in an array of online prosumption activities, one shared claim is particularly striking: the empowering and humanizing implications of prosumption will mark the end of human alienation. In this paper, I assess this extraordinary prediction by, first, establishing that the core of Marx’s conceptualization of alienation is capital’s dominance over human relations, compelling people to become mere tools of the production process. Second, I assess both general and specific digital prosumption developments in light of this understanding of alienation. Third, my analysis concludes that people will participate in prosumption in at least three discernible ways: most will remain relatively powerless tools of capital; some will act as capital’s creative tools; and a minority (those possessing extraordinary capabilities) will have the potential to employ prosumption in ways that redress their alienation.</p>
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:digitallabour-1033
2011-04-29T17:49:26Z
publication:commpub
publication:digitallabour
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
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Mobile Audience Commodities? Situating the Convergence of Work and Play in the Era of Ubiquitous Connectivity
Manzerolle, Vincent
Sociology
<p>This article was presented at Paper Session 6a: Free Labour in the Web 2.0 Era. </p>
<p>This paper re-examines the work of Dallas Smythe in light of the popularization of Internet-enabled mobile devices (IMD). In an era of ubiquitous connectivity Smythe’s prescient analysis of audience ‘work’ offers a historical continuum in which to understand the proliferation of IMDs in everyday life. Following Smythe’s line of analysis, this paper argues that the expansion of waged and unwaged digital labour facilitated by these devices contributes to the overall mobilization of communicative, cognitive and co-operative capacities – capacities central to the accumulation strategies of ‘informational capitalism’. As such, the rapid uptake of these devices globally is an integral component in this mobilization and subsumption. In the case of Smythe’s provocative (and somewhat controversial) concept of the audience commodity the work of the audience is materially embedded in the capitalist<br />application of communication technologies. Consonant with Smythe’s emphasis on the centrality of communication and related technologies in the critical analysis of contemporary political economies, this paper elaborates upon the concept of digital labour by rethinking Smythe’s theory of the audience commodity as a central principle organizing the technical and social evolution of IMDs.</p>
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1008
2011-04-30T00:14:26Z
publication:commpub
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:faculties
Digital Labour: Workers, Authors, Citizens
Burston, Jonathan
Dyer-Witheford, Nick
Hearn, Alison
Editorial
2010-11-01T07:00:00Z
ephemera: theory & politics in organization
214
221
Communication
Film and Media Studies
Sociology
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/8
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1009
2011-10-29T01:18:11Z
publication:commpub
publication:healthstudies
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:healthstudiespub
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Talk, Trust and Time: A Longitudinal Study Evaluating Knowledge Translation and Exchange Processes for Research on Violence against Women
Wathen, C. Nadine
Sibbald, Shannon L.
Jack, Susan M.
MacMillan, Harriet L.
Article
2011-09-06T07:00:00Z
Knowledge translation
Knowledge exchange
Violence against women
Implementation Science
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-102
Communication
Public Health
<p>BACKGROUND: Violence against women (VAW) is a major public health problem. Translation of VAW research to policy and practice is an area that remains understudied, but provides the opportunity to examine knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) processes in a complex, multi-stakeholder context. In a series of studies including two randomized trials, the McMaster University VAW Research Program studied one key research gap: evidence about the effectiveness of screening women for exposure to intimate partner violence. This project developed and evaluated KTE strategies to share research findings with policymakers, health and community service providers, and women's advocates.</p>
<p>METHODS: A longitudinal cross-sectional design, applying concurrent mixed data collection methods (surveys, interviews, and focus groups), was used to evaluate the utility of specific KTE strategies, including a series of workshops and a day-long Family Violence Knowledge Exchange Forum, on research sharing, uptake, and use.</p>
<p>RESULTS: Participants valued the opportunity to meet with researchers, provide feedback on key messages, and make personal connections with other stakeholders. A number of factors specific to the knowledge itself, stakeholders' contexts, and the nature of the knowledge gap being addressed influenced the uptake, sharing, and use of the research. The types of knowledge use changed across time, and were specifically related to both the types of decisions being made, and to stage of decision making; most reported use was conceptual or symbolic, with few examples of instrumental use. Participants did report actively sharing the research findings with their own networks. Further examination of these second-order knowledge-sharing processes is required, including development of appropriate methods and measures for its assessment. Some participants reported that they would not use the research evidence in their decision making when it contradicted professional experiences, while others used it to support apparently contradictory positions. The online wiki-based 'community of interest' requested by participants was not used.</p>
<p>CONCLUSIONS: Mobilizing knowledge in the area of VAW practice and policy is complex and resource-intensive, and must acknowledge and respect the values of identified knowledge users, while balancing the objectivity of the research and researchers. This paper provides important lessons learned about these processes, including attending to the potential unintended consequences of knowledge sharing.</p>
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/9
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:fammedpub-1011
2011-10-31T02:45:04Z
publication:commpub
publication:fammedpub
publication:fammed
publication:fims
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publication:pmid
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21958556
What Implementation Interventions Increase Cancer Screening Rates? A Systematic Review
Brouwers, Melissa C.
De Vito, Carol
Bahirathan, Lavannya
Carol, Angela
Carroll, June C.
Cotterchio, Michelle
Dobbins, Maureen
Lent, Barbara
Levitt, Cheryl
Lewis, Nancy
McGregor, S. Elizabeth
Paszat, Lawrence
Rand, Carol
Wathen, Nadine
Article
2011-09-29T07:00:00Z
Implementation intervention
Cancer screening rate
Implementation Science
Implementation Science
6
111
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-111
Oncology
Public Health
<p>BACKGROUND: Appropriate screening may reduce the mortality and morbidity of colorectal, breast, and cervical cancers. However, effective implementation strategies are warranted if the full benefits of screening are to be realized. As part of a larger agenda to create an implementation guideline, we conducted a systematic review to evaluate interventions designed to increase the rate of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. The interventions considered were: client reminders, client incentives, mass media, small media, group education, one-on-one education, reduction in structural barriers, reduction in out-of-pocket costs, provider assessment and feedback interventions, and provider incentives. Our primary outcome, screening completion, was calculated as the overall median post-intervention absolute percentage point (PP) change in completed screening tests.</p>
<p>METHODS: Our first step was to conduct an iterative scoping review in the research area. This yielded three relevant high-quality systematic reviews. Serving as our evidentiary foundation, we conducted a formal update. Randomized controlled trials and cluster randomized controlled trials, published between 2004 and 2010, were searched in MEDLINE, EMBASE and PSYCHinfo.</p>
<p>RESULTS: The update yielded 66 studies new eligible studies with 74 comparisons. The new studies ranged considerably in quality. Client reminders, small media, and provider audit and feedback appear to be effective interventions to increase the uptake of screening for three cancers. One-on-one education and reduction of structural barriers also appears effective, but their roles with CRC and cervical screening, respectively, are less established. More study is required to assess client incentives, mass media, group education, reduction of out-of-pocket costs, and provider incentive interventions.</p>
<p>CONCLUSION: The new evidence generally aligns with the evidence and conclusions from the original systematic reviews. This review served as the evidentiary foundation for an implementation guideline. Poor reporting, lack of precision and consistency in defining operational elements, and insufficient consideration of context and differences among populations are areas for additional research.</p>
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fammedpub/12
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1010
2011-11-25T04:56:04Z
publication:commpub
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:faculties
Media, Structures, and Power: The Robert E. Babe Collection
Comor, Edward
Book
2011-01-01T08:00:00Z
Media
Power
Robert Babe
Communication
Film and Media Studies
<em>Media, Structures, and Power</em> is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada's leading communication and media studies scholar, Robert E. Babe. Spanning almost four decades of scholarship, the volume reflects the breadth of Babe's work, from media and economics to communications history and political economy.
<p>Babe famously characterized Canadian scholars' distinctive contribution to knowledge as uniquely historical, holistic, and dialectical. The essays in <em>Media, Structures, and Power</em> reflect this particular strength. With a clarity of vision, Babe critiques mainstream economics, Canadian government policy, and postmodernist thought in social science. Containing introductions and contributions by other prominent scholars, this volume situates Babe's work within contemporary scholarship and underscores the extent to which he is one of Canada's most prescient thinkers. His interdisciplinary analyses will remain timely and influential well into the twenty-first century. (From online book description)</p>
<p>Dr. Edward Comor was the editor of this book. I<strong></strong>t is not available online here. If you are affiliated with The University of Western Ontario, please use the Shared Library Catalogue's <a href="http://alpha.lib.uwo.ca/" target="_blank">Classic Search</a> to check whether the book is available in Western Libraries.</p>
<p>If you are not affiliated with The University of Western Ontario, search <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/" target="_blank">WorldCat</a> to find out where you can get access to the book.</p>
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/10
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:fammedpub-1012
2011-11-26T02:16:22Z
publication:commpub
publication:fammedpub
publication:fammed
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:pmid
publication:faculties
21958602
Effective Interventions to Facilitate the Uptake of Breast, Cervical and Colorectal Cancer Screening: An Implementation Guideline
Brouwers, Melissa C.
De Vito, Carol
Bahirathan, Lavannya
Carol, Angela
Carroll, June C.
Cotterchio, Michelle
Dobbins, Maureen
Lent, Barbara
Levitt, Cheryl
Lewis, Nancy
McGregor, S. Elizabeth
Paszat, Lawrence
Rand, Carol
Wathen, Nadine
Article
2011-09-29T07:00:00Z
Breast cancer
Cervical cancer
Colorectal cancer
Cancer screening
Intervention
Implementation Science
Implementation Science
6
112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-112
Medicine and Health Sciences
Public Health
<p>BACKGROUND: Appropriate screening may reduce the mortality and morbidity of colorectal, breast, and cervical cancers. Several high-quality systematic reviews and practice guidelines exist to inform the most effective screening options. However, effective implementation strategies are warranted if the full benefits of screening are to be realized. We developed an implementation guideline to answer the question: What interventions have been shown to increase the uptake of cancer screening by individuals, specifically for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers?</p>
<p>METHODS: A guideline panel was established as part of Cancer Care Ontario's Program in Evidence-based Care, and a systematic review of the published literature was conducted. It yielded three foundational systematic reviews and an existing guidance document. We conducted updates of these reviews and searched the literature published between 2004 and 2010. A draft guideline was written that went through two rounds of review. Revisions were made resulting in a final set of guideline recommendations.</p>
<p>RESULTS: Sixty-six new studies reflecting 74 comparisons met eligibility criteria. They were generally of poor to moderate quality. Using these and the foundational documents, the panel developed a draft guideline. The draft report was well received in the two rounds of review with mean quality scores above four (on a five-point scale) for each of the items. For most of the interventions considered, there was insufficient evidence to support or refute their effectiveness. However, client reminders, reduction of structural barriers, and provision of provider assessment and feedback were recommended interventions to increase screening for at least two of three cancer sites studied. The final guidelines also provide advice on how the recommendations can be used and future areas for research.</p>
<p>CONCLUSION: Using established guideline development methodologies and the AGREE II as our methodological frameworks, we developed an implementation guideline to advise on interventions to increase the rate of breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening. While advancements have been made in these areas of implementation science, more investigations are warranted.</p>
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fammedpub/13
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1011
2012-01-25T23:20:56Z
publication:sociologypub
publication:commpub
publication:sociology
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:faculties
Yes, Canadian Universities Do Discriminate against Their Own Graduates
Mann, Douglas
Response or Comment
2012-01-09T08:00:00Z
Canada
Higher education
University Affairs
Education
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/11
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1012
2015-11-02T20:19:40Z
publication:commpub
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:faculties
Commercial Content Moderation: Digital Laborers' Dirty Work
Roberts, Sarah T.
Book Chapter
2016-01-01T08:00:00Z
digital labour
digital labor
social media
commercial content moderation
CCM
user-generated content
UGC
race
racism
gender
intersectionality
internet
internet studies
digital media
digital media studies
viral videos
viral
youtube
megatech
silicon valley
antoine dodson
hillary adams
yasiin bey
mos def
oscar grant
eric garner
tamir rice
police brutality
child abuse
Communication
Communication Technology and New Media
Film and Media Studies
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
Library and Information Science
Social Media
<p>In this chapter from the forthcoming Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online (Noble and Tynes, Eds., 2016), I introduce both the concept of commercial content moderation (CCM) work and workers, as well as the ways in which this unseen work affects how users experience the Internet of social media and user-generated content (UGC). I tie it to issues of race and gender by describing specific cases of viral videos that transgressed norms and by providing examples from my interviews with CCM workers. The interventions of CCM workers on behalf of the platforms for which they labor directly contradict myths of the Internet as a site for free, unmediated expression, and highlight the complexities of how and why racist, homophobic, violent, and sexist content exists, and persists, in a social media landscape that often purports to disallow it.</p>
<p>Book chapter published in <em>The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online</em>, edited by S. U. Noble & B. Tynes, and published by Peter Lang Publishing.</p>
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/12
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1013
2016-02-18T21:46:09Z
publication:commpub
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:faculties
Through Google-Colored Glass(es): Design, Emotion, Class, and Wearables as Commodity and Control
Noble, Safiya Umoja
Roberts, Sarah T.
Book Chapter
2016-01-01T08:00:00Z
Google
Google Glass
surveillance
privacy
emotions
technology
information ethics
design
wearables
panopticon
class
race
prison
buses
San Francisco
Ellis Act
Seattle
uncanny valley
biodata
Communication
Communication Technology and New Media
Critical and Cultural Studies
Fashion Design
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Film and Media Studies
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Social Media
<p>This chapter discusses the implications of wearable technologies like Google Glass that function as a tool for occupying, commodifying, and profiting from the bio- logical, psychological, and emotional data of its wearers and those who fall within its gaze. We argue that Google Glass privileges an imaginary of unbridled exploration and intrusion into the physical and emotional space of others. Glass’s recognizable esthetic and outward-facing camera has elicited intense emotional response, partic- ularly when “exploration” has taken place in areas of San Francisco occupied by residents who were finding themselves priced out or evicted from their homes to make way for the techno-elite. We find that very few trade and popular press articles have focused on the failure of Glass along these dimensions, while the surveillance and class-based aspects of Google Glass are fundamental to an accurate rendering of the product’s trajectory and the public’s emotional response to this product. The goal of this chapter is to foreground dimensions of surveillance and economics, class and resistance, in the face of unending rollouts of new wearable products designed to integrate seamlessly with everyday life—for those, of course, who can afford them. Ultimately, we believe more nuanced, intersectional analyses of power along race, class, and gender must be at the forefront of future research on wearable technologies. Our goal is to raise important critiques of the commodification of emotions, and the expansion of the surveillance state vis-à-vis Google’s increasing and unrivaled information empire, the longstanding social costs of which have yet to be fully articulated.</p>
<p>Noble, S. & Roberts, S. T. (2016). Through Google-Colored Glass(es): Design, Emotion, Class, and Wearables as Commodity and Control. In S. Tettegah & S. Noble (Eds.) <a href="http://store.elsevier.com/Emotions-Technology-and-Design/isbn-9780128018729/" target="_blank">Emotions, Technology & Design</a>. pp. 187-210. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press.</p>
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/13
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1014
2015-12-01T18:24:27Z
publication:commpub
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:faculties
Digital Refuse: Canadian Garbage, Commercial Content Moderation and the Global Circulation of Social Media’s Waste
Roberts, Sarah T.
Article
2016-01-01T08:00:00Z
e-waste
commercial content moderation
ccm
Philippines
garbage
Canada
globalization
neoliberalization
digital economy
social media
environment
global North
global South
BPO
business process outsourcing
Wi: Journal of Mobile Media
Communication
Communication Technology and New Media
Environmental Studies
Film and Media Studies
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Social Media
<p>The story of a rogue Canadian garbage barge attempting to offload illegal garbage in the Philippines opens this article on techno-trash, in order to underline both the relationships between countries of the Global North with countries of the Global South in matters of waste, as well as to reframe discussions of techno-trash as one fundamentally tied to material things. The definition of techno-trash is then expanded, to cover digital detritus created through an entirely digital set of practices I term “Commercial Content Moderation.” The attempt to offload mounds of e-waste and the similar ways in which a great deal of physical trash circulates around the globe are then directly connected to the kind of disposal that CCM workers do, increasingly undertaken in sites like the Philippines, the Business Process Outsourcing (or BPO) capital of world. Such e-waste arrives in the archipelago for dismantling, repurpose and storage alongside outsourced CCM work, with many of the objects now deemed “waste” once crucial to the production of the very material for which CCM workers now screen and remove.</p>
<p>Pre-production copy of an article to be printed in January 2016 edition of <em>Wi: Journal of mobile media</em>.</p>
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/14
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1015
2016-03-08T16:36:04Z
publication:commpub
publication:fims
publication:fimspub
publication:faculties
In/visibility
Roberts, Sarah T.
Book Chapter
2016-01-01T08:00:00Z
visibility
invisibility
commercial content moderation
ccm
social media
digital labour
user-generated content
Communication
Communication Technology and New Media
Critical and Cultural Studies
Film and Media Studies
Library and Information Science
<p>In online life there is a normative supposition that the information- and image-rich environment of the web and other platforms should provide unfettered access to the circulation of all types of content. Less attention is paid to what is <em>not</em> seen, to the <em>invisible</em>—be it actual content that is rescinded, altered or removed, or the opaque decision-making processes that maintain its flow. I<em>n/visibility </em>online is central to the intertwined functions/mechanisms of user experience and platform control, further operationalized under globalized, technologically driven capitalism. A digital labour phenomenon that is both responsible for it and relies upon it: is commercial content moderation, or CCM, taken up in this paper within the context of in/visibility.</p>
<p>From the forthcoming volume, Surplus3: Labour and the Digital.</p>
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/15
oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:commpub-1017
2017-10-05T16:21:23Z
publication:commpub
publication:fimspub
publication:fims
publication:faculties
Adoptability and acceptability of peace journalism among Afghan photojournalists: Lessons for peace journalism training in conflict-affected countries
Mitra, Saumava
Article
2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
International News
Afghanistan
Photojournalism
War Photography
Peace Journalism
Journal of the Association for Journalism Education UK
Film and Media Studies
Journalism Studies
Photography
Visual Studies
<p>In this article, I seek to inform Peace Journalism (PJ) education and training in conflict-affected countries in particular. Based on a case study of the professional experiences of Afghan photojournalists, I offer insights into the acceptability and adoptability of PJ practice by journalists from conflict-affected countries. I present six key findings of a larger study on Afghan photojournalists in this article and discuss the lessons they hold for PJ training in conflict-affected countries. In sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, I provide some important theoretical, contextual and methodological background. In section 6, I discuss three professional adversities faced by Afghan photojournalists and evaluate the obstacles that implementation of PJ faces as a result of them. In section 7, I describe one professional motivator for Afghan photojournalists and discuss the opportunity it presents for PJ adoption. In section 8, I describe two other constraints faced by Afghan photojournalists related specifically to donor-funded media development in post-2001 Afghanistan and discuss their implications for PJ training. Finally in section 9, while noting the limitations of the current study, I offer two ways forward for PJ training in conflict-affected countries like Afghanistan.</p>
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/commpub/16