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 2023
Confronting an Extractive Racialised Genre System: Black Lives Matter, Royalty Recovery and Musical Reparations, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa and Matt Stahl
Between Here and There: Surveying the Global Work of Diaspora, Migration, and Mobility-Engaged Museums, Simge Erdogan-O'Connor, Giada Ferrucci, Renée MacDiarmid, Julia Piccolo, Sascha Priewe, and Sarah E.K. Smith
Documenting Privacy Dark Patterns: How Social Networking Sites Influence Users’ Privacy Choices, Dominique Kelly and Jacquelyn Burkell
Acting "As If": Critical Pedagogy, Empowerment, and Labor, Rafia Mirza, Karen P. Nicholson, and Maura Seale
Submissions from 2022
Palaces for the People: Mapping Public Libraries' Capacity for Social Connection and Inclusion, Nicole K. Dalmer, Pam McKenzie, Paulette Rothbauer, Ebenezer Martin-Yeboah, and Kevin Oswald
Towards a Critical Turn in Library UX, Alison Hicks, Karen P. Nicholson, and Maura Seale
Digital Media Use and Social Inclusion: A Case Study of East York Older Adults, Anabel Quan-Haase, Molly-Gloria Harper, and Alice Hwang
Honouring a love of books and reading in Library and Information Science, Paulette Rothbauer and Marni R. Harrington
WeChat, Jinman Zhang and Anabel Quan-Haase
Submissions from 2021
Global Technological Trend in Academic Libraries, Oluwabunmi Dorcas Bakare Dr and Babajide Mike Bakare Dr
Harold Innis’s Concept of Bias: its intellectual origins and misused, Edward Comor
A thematic analysis of library association policies on services to persons with disabilities, Heather Hill
Decolonizing & Indigenizing LIS, Heather Hill, Marni Harrington, Paulette Rothbauer, and Danica Pawlick Potts
Public Health Agencies Outreach through Instagram during COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Perspective, Aqdas Malik, Laeeq M. Khan, and Anabel Quan-Haase
Documenting multiple temporalities, Pam McKenzie and Elisabeth Davies
Spatial Thinking, Gender And Immaterial Affective Labour In The Post-Fordist Academic Library, Karen P. Nicholson
"The Smoke Signals Radio Show Archive Project: An Introduction, Paulette Rothbauer, Amy Hadley, Marni Harrington, Heather Hill, Serena Mendizabal, Danica Pawlick Potts, Dan Smoke, and Mary Lou Smoke
Reading Times: Exploring the temporalities of reading, Paulette Rothbauer and Lucia Cederia Serantes
“I actually got my first job through my ex-colleague”: Employment-related information seeking behavior of Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada, Nafiz Zaman Shuva
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