With 2013 designated as the UN Year of Water Cooperation, I feel that the bulk of a Canadians and Water project documented this year would offer the opportunity to release a completed project in 2013. The scope of my ...

Participate in the Wikimania 2012 The International Wikimedia Conference, explore the research and development with Wikimedia applications. Learn more about what Wikimedia community had tried and where they are going, ...

The session begins by introducing Athabasca University, our mandate as a distance university puts extra-importance on our service delivery and we must leverage technology to ensure we meet our students’ expectations. It ...

Information literacy tools used in face-to-face, blended, or online course environments are not scalable to massive open online courses, or MOOCs. We need a different approach based on the unique skills librarians bring ...

Post-war literary decolonization in the British Empire often pitted ideologies and scarce resources against one another in unanticipated ways. In any given colony there could, and often did, exist a rich mix of individual ...

As I explored in my previous SSHRC* funded research in 2006, worker cooperatives are based on the ideals of democratic participation and of egalitarianism: in general assemblies all the workers vote on the general principles ...

Since Twitter joined the social media club in 2006, its use has increased steadily, particularly since 2009 (Deller 2011). Although it has received a lot of attention in the traditional media because of its use in relation ...

This paper compares the discussion of anger in Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus florum (1306) with that found in important reference works for preachers from about the same period. Richard and Mary Rouse’s major study of the ...

For close to a century in Iran, the female body has been the site for authorities to assert and exercise their political and ideological control over half of the population. Our paper explores how women in the Islamic ...

Conference description The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers whose interests in the digital economy are positioned at the intersection of social media and the engaged university. Social media ...