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 2019
Transitions and Social Interactions: Making Sense of Self and Situation through Engagement with Others, Pam McKenzie and Rebekah Willson
"Being in Time": New Public Management, Academic Librarians, and the Temporal Labor of Pink-Collar Public Service Work, Karen P. Nicholson
Just-in-Time or Just-in-Case? Time, Learning Analytics, and the Library, Karen P. Nicholson, Nicole Pagowsky, and Maura Seale
Multilingual Information Access (MLIA) Tools on Google and WorldCat: Bi/Multilingual University Students’ Experience and Perceptions, P. Nzomo, Liwen Vaughan, Isola Ajiferuke, and Pam McKenzie
A News Verification Browser for the Detection of Clickbait, Satire, and Falsified News, Victoria Rubin, Chris Brogly, Nadia Conroy, Yimin Chen, Sarah E. Cornwell, and Toluwase V. Asubiaro
Educators' Perceptions of Information Literacy and Skills Required to Spot ‘Fake News’, Victoria Rubin and Nicole Delellis
Terrorism and its legal aftermath: The limits on freedom of expression in Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act & National Security Act, Percy Sherwood
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
Kesha vs. Dr. Luke, Particularism vs. Abstraction: The Atavistic Politics of Occupational Music Making, Matt Stahl
Music's role in political-economic transformation: Demolishing diversity in the Anglo-American world of work, Matt Stahl
Popular Music as (Social) Field and (Political) Voice: Critical Media Studies Approaches, Matt Stahl
Talent and the Global Music Industries, Matt Stahl
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