FIMS Publications
The research in Information and Media Studies Publications covers a range of subjects pertaining to information and knowledge and the ways they move through and shape society. They encompass media studies, popular music and culture, journalism, health information sciences, and library and information science.
Submissions from 2021
Accounting for Injustice: AFTRA, Work & Singers' Royalties, Matt Stahl and Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Submissions from 2020
Harold Innis and the Greek Tradition: an essay concerning his ontological transformation, Edward Comor
Politics and porn: how news media characterizes problems presented by deepfakes, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Chandell E. Gosse and Jacquelyn Burkell
Older Adults and Information and Communication Technologies in the Global North, Molly-Gloria R. Harper, Barry Wellman, and Anabel Quan-Haase
“This is Really Interesting. I Never Even Thought About This.” Methodological Strategies for Studying Invisible Information Work., Pam McKenzie and Nicole K. Dalmer
The Sociological Imagination in Studies of Communication, Information Technologies, and Media: CITAMS as an Invisible College, Anabel Quan-Haase, Molly-Gloria Harper, and Shelley Boulianne
Appendix A: Interview guide with privacy-related questions (full version), Anabel Quan-Haase and Dennis Ho
Information experiences of Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada, Nafiz Zaman Shuva
Wearing Multiple Reflexive Hats: The Ethical Complexities of Media-Oriented Community Engaged Learning, Sandra Smeltzer
Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review, Denise Smith
The Networked Question in the Digital Era: How Do Networked, Bounded, and Limited Individuals Connect at Different Stages in the Life Course?, Barry Wellman, Anabel Quan-Haase, and Molly-Gloria R. Harper
Submissions from 2019
Nothing new here: Emphasizing the social and cultural context of deepfakes, Jacquelyn A. Burkell and Chandell E. Gosse
Noticing the Unnoticed: Lines of Work in Everyday Life Information Practices, Nicole Dalmer and Pam McKenzie
Building and Maintaining LGBTQ+ Picture Book Collections, Alissa Droog, Danielle Bettridge, Alyssa R. Martin, and Ashleigh Yates-MacKay
Roll for Initiative: A Player’s Guide to Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Libraries, Carlie Forsythe
Disability and Accessibility Language in Subject Headings and Social Tags, Mackenzie Johnson and Carlie Forsythe
Transitions and Social Interactions: Making Sense of Self and Situation through Engagement with Others, Pam McKenzie and Rebekah Willson
"Being in Time": New Public Management, Academic Librarians, and the Temporal Labor of Pink-Collar Public Service Work, Karen P. Nicholson
Just-in-Time or Just-in-Case? Time, Learning Analytics, and the Library, Karen P. Nicholson, Nicole Pagowsky, and Maura Seale
Multilingual Information Access (MLIA) Tools on Google and WorldCat: Bi/Multilingual University Students’ Experience and Perceptions, P. Nzomo, Liwen Vaughan, Isola Ajiferuke, and Pam McKenzie
A News Verification Browser for the Detection of Clickbait, Satire, and Falsified News, Victoria Rubin, Chris Brogly, Nadia Conroy, Yimin Chen, Sarah E. Cornwell, and Toluwase V. Asubiaro
Educators' Perceptions of Information Literacy and Skills Required to Spot ‘Fake News’, Victoria Rubin and Nicole Delellis
Terrorism and its legal aftermath: The limits on freedom of expression in Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act & National Security Act, Percy Sherwood