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Spring 2021
Digital libraries are online environments for organizing, sharing, and providing access to resources in digital form. Ideally, their content, functionality, organization, and metadata should reflect the needs, interests, and contexts of the communities they are meant to serve. Indigenous...
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Spring 2022
Using an online survey, this research explores public opinion related to ethical concerns and the portrayal of human-like characteristics by Virtual Assistants (VAs), such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa. This research is centered around two research questions: 1) What ethical concerns, if...
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Educating and Empowering Teen Activists in Public Libraries: A Case Study of the Impact of Reading on Young Adult Social Justice Actions
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In recent years, young adult (YA) fiction has, like its Generation Z audience, turned to social justice issues and activism. At the same time, the discussion of social responsibility in librarianship has begun to include human rights and social justice. This thesis investigates the relationships...
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Networking Albertan Literary History, 1975-1979: A Bibliographic and Social Network Analysis
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Can a bibliographic network identify the major characteristics of a corresponding social network, and what can those networks reveal about Albertan literary history in the 1970s? By combining bibliometric network methods with social network analysis, this thesis attempts to answer the above...
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The Body as Information: An Emergent Theory of Social Positioning and Information Behaviours in a Virtual Diet Community
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The intersection of diet culture with the rise of online communities has led to the rapid growth of virtual diet communities, including the LoseIt community on Reddit. Using a conceptual framework of information behaviours in virtual communities and social positioning theory, this project studied...
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Fall 2021
Established in 2007 by the Organization for Transformative Works, the Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a fan fiction archive that hosts over three million fan works, consisting mostly of fan fiction. It has become an active hub of fan activity, making it an ideal object of study as a current...
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Fall 2024
Through qualitative in-depth interviewing and inductive thematic analysis, this research seeks to amplify the experiences of a population in Library and Information Studies (LIS) that is often underrepresented: Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) who are in the Master of Library and...
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Fall 2024
This thesis takes the form of a hypertext, interactive game designed to be a thought experiment on cultural memory in the Anthropocene. It is a game, a form of research-creation, and a question. The question posed is simply: what cultural memories and memory objects do we make, forget, and...