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 2007
Equal representation by search engines? A comparison of websites across countries and domains, L. Vaughan and Y. Zhang
Submissions from 2006
‘Poster Meets Innis: Poststructuralism and the Possibility of Political Economy’, Robert Babe and Edward Comor
Let’s Not Get Psyched Out of Privacy: Reflections on Withdrawing Consent to the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information, Jennifer Barrigar, Jacquelyn Burkell, and Ian Kerr
Anonymity in Behavioural Research: Not Being Unnamed, but Being Unknown, Jacquelyn Burkell
Can electronic journal usage data replace citation data as a measure of journal use? An empirical examination1, J. Duy and L. Vaughan
"EA Spouse" and the Crisis of Video Game Labour: Enjoyment, Exclusion, Exploitation, and Exodus, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig S. de Peuter
Co-occurrence matrices and their applications in information science: Extending ACA to the web environment, L. Leydesdorff and L. Vaughan
Mapping textually-mediated information practice in clinical midwifery care, Pamela J. McKenzie
The Seeking of Baby-Feeding Information by Canadian Women Pregnant with Twins, Pamela J. McKenzie
Critical Theory and Information Studies: A Marcusean Infusion, Ajit K. Pyati
Visualizing linguistic and cultural differences using web Co-link data, L. Vaughan
Why are hyperlinks to business Websites created? A content analysis, L. Vaughan, Y. Gao, and M. Kipp
Comparing business competition positions based on Web co-link data: The global market vs. the Chinese market, L. Vaughan and J. You
Optimizing Search Strategies to Identify Randomized Controlled Trials in MEDLINE, Li Zhang, Isola Ajiferuke, and Margaret Sampson
Submissions from 2005
Trying to Help without getting in their Faces: Public Library Staff Descriptions of Providing Consumer Health Information, C Brandi Borman and Pamela J. McKenzie
‘‘What does this mean?’’ How Web-based consumer health information fails to support information seeking in the pursuit of informed consent for screening test decisions, Jacquelyn A. Burkell and D Grant Campbell
“We Must Now All Be Information Professionals”: An Interview with Ron Day, Ronald E. Day and Ajit K. Pyati
Are citation data a valid measure of journal use? An empirical examination in an academic context, J. Duy and L. Vaughan
The Political Economy of Canada's Video and Computer Game Industry, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Zena Sharman
Web hyperlink profiles of news sites: A comparison of newspapers of USA, Canada, and China, Y. Gao and L. Vaughan
Interpretive Repertoires, Pamela J. McKenzie
WSIS: Whose Vision of an Information Society?, Ajit K. Pyati
To the editor, D. Shaw and L. Vaughan
Maureen Mahon, Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race (Review), Matt Stahl
Webometrics, M. Thelwall, L. Vaughan, and L. Björneborn