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 2017
DH and the Digital Archive, Cal Murgu
Introduction, Karen Nicholson and Maura Seale
A webometric analysis of the online vaccination debate, A. Ninkov and L. Vaughan
Visual Research in LIS: Complementary and Alternative Methods, Angela Pollak
Contemplation as Educational Activism within Communication, Ajit Pyati
Deception Detection and Rumor Debunking for Social Media, Victoria L. Rubin
Literacy Requirements of Court Documents: An Underexplored Barrier to Access to Justice, Amy Salyzyn, Lori Isaj, Brandon Piva, and Jacquelyn Burkell
Problematizing the digital literacy paradox in the context of older adults’ ICT use: Aging, media discourse, and self-determination, Kathleen Schreuers, Anabel Quan-Haase, and Kim Martin
Player–Game Interaction and Cognitive Gameplay: A Taxonomic Framework for the Core Mechanic of Videogames, Kamran Sedig, Paul Parsons, and Robert Haworth
The Information Practices of the Fishermen, Nafiz Zaman Shuva
Widespread use of misidentified cell line KB (HeLa): Incorrect attribution and its impact revealed through mining the scientific literature, Liwen Vaughan, Wolfgang Glanzel, Christopher Korch, and Amanda Capes-David
Investigating disciplinary differences in the relationships between citations and downloads, L. Vaughan, J. Tang, and R. Yang
Motivations for Sharing News on Social Media, Lorraine (Lola) Y.C. Wong and Jacquelyn Burkell
Research Data Management: A Library Practitioner’s Perspective, Siu Hong Yu
Submissions from 2016
Epic and Genre: Beyond the Boundaries of Media, Luke Arnott
Remembering Me: Big Data, Individual Identity, and the Psychological Necessity of Forgetting, Jacquelyn A. Burkell
Display and Control in Online Social Spaces: Toward a Typology of Users, Jacquelyn A. Burkell and Alexandre Fortier
The Paradox of Privacy: Revisiting a Core Library Value in an Age of Big Data and Linked Data, Grant D. Campbell and Scott Cowan
Tween Girls, Sexuality and the Biopolitics of HPV Vaccination in English-speaking Canadian Magazines., Laura Cayen, Jessica Polzer, and Susan Knabe
Policy as Embedded Generativity: A Case Study of the Emergence and Evolution of HathiTrust, Alissa Centivany
Values, Ethics and Participatory Policymaking in Online Communities, Alissa Centivany
“Popcorn Tastes Good”: Participatory Policymaking and Reddit’s “AMAgeddon”, Alissa Centivany and Bobby Glushko
Illusions of a ‘Bond’: Tagging Cultural Products across Online Platforms, Nadine Desrochers, Audrey Laplante, Anabel Quan-Haase, Kim Martin, and Louise Spiteri