This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Library and Information Science, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

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Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Recreational nastiness or playful mischief? Contrasting perspectives on internet trolling between news media and avid internet users, Yimin Chen

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Discourse, Power Dynamics, and Risk Amplification in Disaster Risk Management in Canada, Martins Oluwole Olu-Omotayo

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Folk Theories, Recommender Systems, and Human-Centered Explainable Artificial Intelligence (HCXAI), Michael Ridley

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Exploiting Semantic Similarity Between Citation Contexts For Direct Citation Weighting And Residual Citation, Toluwase Victor Asubiaro

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The Use of Intimate Partner Violence Websites: Website Awareness, Visibility, Information Quality, Perceived Usefulness, and Frequency of Use, Sze Hang Lee

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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The General Artificial Intellect, Ramon S. Diab

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The Public Library as Past Become Space, Greg Nightingale

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Making Sense of Online Public Health Debates with Visual Analytics Systems, Anton Ninkov

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Information, Employment, and Settlement of Immigrants: Exploring the Role of Information Behaviour in the Settlement of Bangladesh Immigrants in Canada, Nafiz Zaman Shuva

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Accessibility And Academic Libraries: A Comparative Case Study, Claire Burrows

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The Information Practices of New Kadampa Buddhists: From "Dharma of Scripture" to "Dharma of Insight", Roger Chabot

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Narratives of Sexuality in the Lives of Young Women Readers, Davin L. Helkenberg

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Strategic and Subversive: The Case of the Disappearing Diaphragm and Women’s Information Practices, Sherilyn M. Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Informing care: Mapping the social organization of families’ information work in an aging in place climate, Nicole K. Dalmer

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A Study of Six Nations Public Library: Rights and Access to Information, Alison Frayne

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Information Freedoms and the Case for Anonymous Community, Rachel Melis

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Academic Librarians and the Space/Time of Information Literacy, the Neoliberal University, and the Global Knowledge Economy, Karen P. Nicholson

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Expertise, Mediation, and Technological Surrogacy: A Mixed Method Critical Analysis of a Point of Care Evidence Resource, Selinda Adelle Berg

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The E-Writing Experiences of Literary Authors, Kathleen Schreurs

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Understanding Collaborative Sensemaking for System Design — An Investigation of Musicians' Practice, Nadia Conroy

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Laying the Foundation for Copyright Policy and Practice in Canadian Universities, Lisa Di Valentino

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Towards Evidence-Informed Agriculture Policy Making: Investigating the Knowledge Translation Practices of Researchers in the National Agriculture Research Institutes in Nigeria, Isioma N. Elueze

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Different Approaches for Different Folks, Alexandre Fortier

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Creating Context from Curiosity: The Role of Serendipity in the Research Process of Historians in Physical and Digital Environments, Kim Martin

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Alternate Academy: Investigating the Use of Open Educational Resources by Students at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Daniel Onaifo

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Contentious information: Accounts of knowledge production, circulation and consumption in transitional Egypt, Ahmad Kamal

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Multilingual Information Access: Practices and Perceptions of Bi/multilingual Academic Users, Peggy I. Nzomo

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Words to Live By: How Experience Shapes our Information World at Work, Play and in Everyday Life, Angela Pollak

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Watching Storytelling: Visual Information in Oral Narratives, James Ripley

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Africa: Investigating Information Access and Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Women-Owned Enterprises in Zambia, Daniel Mumba

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Young adults reflect on the experience of reading comics in contemporary society: Overcoming the commonplace and recognizing complexity, Lucia Cederia Serantes

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Space, Power and the Public Library: A Multicase Examination of the Public Library as Organization Space, Matthew R. Griffis

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Knowledge Organization Practices in Everyday Life: Divergent Constructions of Healthy Eating, Jill R. McTavish

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Semantics-based Automated Quality Assessment of Depression Treatment Web Documents, Yanjun Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Making Sense of Document Collections with Map-Based Visualizations, Olga Buchel

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A Critical Historical Analysis of the Public Performance Right, Louis J. D'Alton

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Intellectual Property and Its Alternatives: Incentives, Innovation and Ideology, Michael B. McNally

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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The Information Practices of People Living with Depression: Constructing Credibility and Authority, Tami Oliphant