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Neigel, Christina
No full textChristina Neigel is an associate professor in the department of Library and Information Technology where she prepares students for careers working with people and information in various capacities, including libraries. She has served as a library technician and a librarian, a department head, a union vice president, and thinks a LOT about the intersections of work and life. Her research interests include labour (in libraries and higher education), popular culture, children’s literature, and education policy.
Key to her work, and much of the work that embodies librarianship, Christina is committed to linking scholarship, in all its various manifestations, and civic engagement. Although this practice is embedded in teaching, she is interested in finding ways to build stronger connections between academic work and the experience of everyday life.Abbotsford campus, C2456curren
Loveless frumps, old maids, and diabolical deviants: Representations of gender and librarianship in popular culture
Get PDFFrom the old-maid to the oversexed librarian to the unwelcoming gatekeeper, stereotypical representations of woman librarians are familiar in popular culture. Images and narratives construct important messages about what it means to be a librarian and highlight the cultural struggles of the profession, particularly around its status as women’s work. Representations of librarians are rooted in a gendered history of the profession and the social norms that produce expectations about service work as an extension of the caring and organizing work of women. To interrogate the legacy of this history, I examine the representation of gender in contemporary popular cultural texts. Drawing on visual discourse analysis I analyze visual-verbal texts featuring librarians as a way of understanding how gendered representations about librarianship as “women’s work” are produced and resisted. Focusing on popular cultural texts produced between 2005 and 2017 from the United States, I analyze discourses of gender and librarianship in children’s picture books, middle grade and young adult novels, a YouTube video, a made-for-television movie, and Internet sites. I argue that popular cultural texts about librarians are sites of normative inscription and of resistance. While contemporary fictional representations continue to locate librarians in the past and as white, cisgender, heterosexual women, auto/biographical projects offer a disruptive turn from these mainstream characterizations to give voice to the rich and complex lives of real librarians whose work is focused on social action. I conclude with a call for library education programs to adopt a feminist critical media literacy curriculum to encourage undergraduate and graduate library students to critically examine, rescript, and repicture the discursive construction of librarians in popular culture.Peer reviewedDoctoral dissertationProfessional identityLibrarian stereotypesLibrarianship as “women’s work”Visual discourse analysisFeminist discourse analysisCritical media literacyVisual-verbal discourse analysisPublic pedagogyRepresentationPopular cultur
University of the Fraser Valley: Co-Teaching Report: A Report of an Interdisciplinary Experiment
Get PDFHaving engaged in a semester-long co-teaching experience in a special topics course that was dual-listed as Business 390L and Library and Information Technology 399C (Place Making and Community Engagement), I was prompted to draft a report, summarizing some of the benefits and challenges of such an interdisciplinary undertaking. This report summarizes current educational literature that focuses on co-teaching as a legitimate form of teaching practice. Further, this document examines the very specific circumstances that shape a co-taught classroom, outlining structural realities and important pedagogical considerations. It is my hope that the experiences and research documented in this report offer inspiration, and ideas about the ways our expertise as professors can be integrated in innovative, creative, and critical ways.
Although there are numerous ways to co-teach, this report is focused on synchronized co-teaching where both professors participate in the teaching and assessment fully for the duration of the course. It is assumes that such work enhances the learning community within the classroom in powerful ways. Within this context, this report considers issues relating to authority, timetabling, workloads, and classroom dynamics, providing a general assessment of the challenges and benefits of co-teaching practice. The report concludes with recommendations for the institution and for faculty considering co-teaching
Understanding International Education in British Columbia: A Report from the FPSE Education Policy Committee
Get PDFTo address growing concerns about the impact of international education on post-secondary institutions where FPSE members are located, this report draws on data collected from the Ministry of Advanced Education and FPSE locals. Contextualizing international education in British Columbia, this document explores the intersection between federal and provincial immigration policies and growing post-secondary institutional rhetoric around international education. This report touches on a range of complex issues, including recruitment of international students, pathway agreements, and the BC government tuition policy. Mapping these elements to recommendations, this report offers FPSE a thoughtful way forward in addressing the impact of international education on its members and post-secondary education more broadly
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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