Journal Articles (Library & Information Studies)

2007

Mackey, Margaret

The idea of ‘slippery texts' provides a useful descriptor for materials that mutate and evolve across different media. Eight adult gamers, encountering the slippery text American McGee's Alice, demonstrate a variety of ways in which players attempt to manage their attention as they encounter a...

2008

Mackey, Margaret

The concept of the subjunctive mode provides a useful key in exploring narrative comprehension in different media. This article reports on a study in which twelve undergraduates, working in groups of three, read a novel, watched a movie, and played a digital game. Analysis of transcripts of their...

2015-06-04

Rathi, Dinesh, McNally, Michael B., Evaniew, Jennifer, Stobbs, Robyn

This paper examines the impact of increased spectrum license deployment requirements used in the Canadian AWS-3 spectrum auction. The paper examines how the increase in deployment requirements will result in a greater number of population centres being served.

2010

Samek, Toni

This article builds on several prior informal publications that delve into my experiences teaching a course on intellectual freedom and social responsibility in librarianship in the context of the North American library and information studies curriculum. Here, I extend those discussions into a...

2003

Mackey, Margaret

Investigates questions of what the New London Group calls \"multiliteracies.\" Looks carefully at various texts associated with the television show \"Felicity\" and considers what they have to say about contemporary popular literacies. Considers how \"Felicity\" acts as a kind of core sample,...

2021-01-01

Jiwa, Nawazali A.

The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme Pakistan (AKRSP-P) and the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India (AKRSP-I) are non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating under the aegis of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). While these two NGOs have generated a considerable corpus of information...

2012

DeBlois, Elizabeth, Storie, Dale, Vermeer, Leslie, Mackey, Margaret

This article reports on a 2006 survey of texts used in Grade 10 English language arts classes in Edmonton, Alberta. The survey uses the same instrument as a previous 1996 survey and provides comparative data from a section of the same pool as participated in 1996. In terms of the most popular...

2011

Mackey, Margaret

This article argues that if we paid attention to the local situation of a reader the way we attend to the life story of an author, we might gain a very different understanding of children’s literacy. It explores the literate approaches of a single child exploring a single theme—the settler...

2013

Mackey, Margaret

This article draws on a careful study of series fiction read in the 1950s to explore how stereotypes feature in the development of a young reader’s competence in learning to process stories in print. Five categories of stereotype are teased out: embodied stereotypes, understood through physical...

2009

McNally, Michael

A content analysis of the Congressional Record and U.S. diplomatic correspondences relating to the negotiation of the Paris and Berne Conventions in the late 19th century reveals that American officials advanced business interests in accordance with Washington’s Farewell Address ahead of the...