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 2016
Illusions of a ‘Bond’: Tagging Cultural Products across Online Platforms, Nadine Desrochers, Audrey Laplante, Anabel Quan-Haase, Kim Martin, and Louise Spiteri
Review of Ana E. Schaposchnik, The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru, Jason Dyck
Knowledge Translation in Agriculture: A Literature Review / L'application des connaissances dans le secteur agricole: une revue de la littérature, Isioma N. Elueze
Rob Ford, Romayne Smith Fullerton
“Telling Tales In the Shadow of Giants: Canada, Ireland, and the Ethics of Crime Coverage.”, Romayne Smith Fullerton and M J. Patterson
Rural Men’s Health, Health Information Seeking, and Gender Identities: A Conceptual Theoretical Review of the Literature, Bradley C. Hiebert, Beverly Leipert, Sandra Regan, and Jacquelyn A. Burkell
Heroes for the helpless: A critical discourse analysis of Canadian national print media’s coverage of the food insecurity crisis in Nunavut, Bradley Hiebert and Elaine Power
Boundary Objects in Information Science, Isto Huvila, Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Eva Jansen, Pam McKenzie, and Adam Worrall
A Model of Social Media Engagement: User Profiles, Gratifications, and Experiences, Lori McCay-Peet and Anabel Quan-Haase
Writing and reading the results: the reporting of research rigour tactics in information behaviour research as evident in the published proceedings of the biennial ISIC conferences, 1996 – 2014, Lynne EF McKechnie, Roger Chabot, Nicole K. Dalmer, Heidi Julien, and Cass Mabbott
“Taking back” information literacy: Time and the one-shot in the neoliberal university, Karen P. Nicholson
Through Google-Colored Glass(es): Design, Emotion, Class, and Wearables as Commodity and Control, Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah T. Roberts
Multilingual Information Retrieval & Use: Perceptions and Practices Amongst Bi/Multilingual Academic Users, P. Nzomo, I. Ajiferuke, and L. Vaughan
Beyond simple charts: Design of visualizations for big health data, Oluwakemi Ola and Kamran Sedig
At A Crossroads or Caught in the Crossfire? Crime Coverage in Portugal, Spain, and Italy, M J. Patterson, Romayne Smith Fullerton, and J Tunon
Information seeking and use in the context of minimalist lifestyles, Angela Pollak
Covering Canadian Crime: What Journalists Know and Publics Should Question, Chris Richardson and Romayne Smith Fullerton
Commercial Content Moderation: Digital Laborers' Dirty Work, Sarah T. Roberts
Digital Refuse: Canadian Garbage, Commercial Content Moderation and the Global Circulation of Social Media’s Waste, Sarah T. Roberts
In/visibility, Sarah T. Roberts
Empowered to Name, Inspired to Act: Social Responsibility and Diversity as Calls to Action in the LIS Context, Sarah T. Roberts and Safiya Umoja Noble
Supporting Sensemaking of Complex Objects with Visualizations: Visibility and Complementarity of Interactions, Kamran Sedig, Paul Parsons, Hai-Ning Liang, and Jim Morey