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
STAK – Serendipitous tool for augmenting knowledge: A conceptual tool for bridging digital and physical resources, Kim Martin, Brian Greenspan, and Anabel Quan-Haase
“A Process of Controlled Serendipity”: An Exploratory Study of Historians’ and Digital Historians’ Experiences of Serendipity in Digital Environments, K Martin and Anabel Quan-Haase
Crowdsourcing Law and Policy: A Design-Thinking Approach to Crowd-Civic Systems, Brian McInnis, Alissa Centivany, Juho Kim, Marta Pobet, Karen Levy, and Gilly Leshed
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
A retrospective on state of the art social media research methods: Ethical decisions, big-small data rivalries and the spectre of the 6Vs, Anabel Quan-Haase and Luke Sloan
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
The Case for Taxonomic Reparations, Melissa Adler
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