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 2018
Equality at Stake: Connecting the Privacy/Vulnerability Cycle to the Debate about Publicly Accessible Online Court Records, Jacquelyn A. Burkell and Jane Bailey
Are "Stress Busters" the Solution? Teaching Wellness at the Academic Library, Emily Carlisle
"I'm Not Evil. I'm Chaotic Neutral!": On the Classification of Internet Trolls, Yimin Chen
Add Info and Stir’: An Institutional Ethnographic Scoping Review of Family Care-Givers’ Information Work, Nicole K. Dalmer
Information World Mapping to Explicate the Information- Care Relationship in Dementia Care, Nicole K. Dalmer
Communicating with Library Patrons and People with Dementia: Tracing an Ethic of Care in Professional Communication Guidelines, Nicole K. Dalmer and D Grant Campbell
On the Space/Time of Information Literacy, Higher Education, and the Global Knowledge Economy, Karen Patricia Nicholson
Reading as a Lifeline among Aging Readers, Paulette Rothbauer and Nicole Dalmer
Submissions from 2017
Mapping Metroid: Narrative, Space, and Other M, Luke Arnott
Revisiting the Open Court Principle in an Era of Online Publication: Questioning Presumptive Public Access to Parties’ and Witnesses’ Personal Information, Jane Bailey and Jacquelyn Burkell
Data-Driven Public Diplomacy: A Critical and Reflexive Assessment, Hamilton Bean and Edward Comor
The Dark History of HathiTrust, Alissa Centivany
Technological Fetishism and US Foreign Policy: The Mediating Role of Digital ICTs, Edward Comor
Ubiquitous Media and Monopolies of Knowledge: The Approach of Harold Innis, Edward Comor
Mind the Gap: Towards the Integration of Critical Gerontology in Public Library Praxis, Nicole K. Dalmer
Questioning reliability assessments of health information on social media, Nicole K. Dalmer
Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for Librarianship, Nicole K. Dalmer, Roz Stooke, and Pamela J. McKenzie
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and the Mexican Archive, Jason Dyck
Review of Jaime Lara, Birdman of Assisi: Art and the Apocalyptic in the Colonial Andes, Jason Dyck
The Creature Questions its Reflection: Lyrical Feminist Explorations of Reference Desk Interactions, Alexandrina Hanam and Corinne Gilroy
Integrated knowledge translation: digging deeper, moving forward, Anita Kothari and C. Nadine Wathen
STAK – Serendipitous tool for augmenting knowledge: A conceptual tool for bridging digital and physical resources, Kim Martin, Brian Greenspan, and Anabel Quan-Haase
“A Process of Controlled Serendipity”: An Exploratory Study of Historians’ and Digital Historians’ Experiences of Serendipity in Digital Environments, K Martin and Anabel Quan-Haase
Crowdsourcing Law and Policy: A Design-Thinking Approach to Crowd-Civic Systems, Brian McInnis, Alissa Centivany, Juho Kim, Marta Pobet, Karen Levy, and Gilly Leshed