AUSpace: Recent submissions
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The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
(Athabasca University Press, 2018)Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s ... -
"Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)From James Rovira's introduction: "Mark A. McCutcheon shifts the locus of suffering to substance abuse in '"Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom.' McCutcheon examines the ... -
Mentoring non-traditional students in clinical practicums: Building on strengths
(Sciedu Press, 2018-03)Background: As nurse educators respond to increasing numbers of adult learners attending practicum experiences, clinical instructors are one of our richest resources. And yet, the everyday strategies they implement to ... -
Beyond Physical Inclusion: A Grounded Theory of Belonging
(NADD, 2017-09)We used grounded theory to analyze interviews with support workers evaluating a program for individuals with dual diagnosis. Our grounded theory research started with the question, "What is going on in the data?" From ... -
Research Ethics Review Processes: Potential Teaching Tools for Health Professions Students
(Scientific Open Access Journals, 2017-10)This article highlights how research ethics review processes have the potential to be used as teaching tools. Health professions students at the graduate level often conduct research involving human participants as part ... -
Curriculum Vitae
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Digitizing Documents on the Athabasca River Basin
(Athabasca River Basin Research Institute (ARBRI) Day, 2015)The Repository expands upon ARBRI’s existing bibliography by providing accessibility to an extensive body of research and scholarly information relating to the Athabasca River Basin by digitizing materials, such as ... -
AUSpace Rebooted
(Open Access Week, 2017)Learn about Athabasca University's open access institutional repository, what it is, how to use it, and how it will benefit your research. -
AblePlayer and the Digital Reading Room
(AUFA Equity Colloquium, 2017)AblePlayer is being implemented in the DRR as an accessible way to embed videos across courses using DRRs. This player supports audio and video playback, keyboard controls, closed captioning, live transcripts, adjustable ... -
The Digital Reading Room at Athabasca University
(Code4Lib Alberta, 2015)thabasca University Library has used a Digital Reading Room (DRR) to support courses for almost 10 years. While the old version of the DRR remained successful and functional, it was out of date and we embarked on a complete ... -
The Open Library at AU (Athabasca University): supporting open access and open educational resources
(Open Praxis, 2015)To address challenges that learners, course creators, librarians and academics involved with OER and MOOCs are facing when looking for scholarly materials, Athabasca University Library has initiated the development of ... -
The Open Library at AU: Supporting Open Access and Open Educational Resources
(OE Global 2015, 2015)In recent years, there has been a shift toward “openness” in higher education, with the growth of Open Access and Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). There is also ... -
Stephen Harper as killer robot
(English Studies in Canada, 2017)In popular culture and public discourse, especially on the Internet, the image of Canada’s former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is conspicuously characterized and caricatured as robotic [...] Amidst popular culture’s hordes ... -
A Close Reading of Part 5 of Robert Kroetsch’s 1977 long poem SEED CATALOGUE
(The Explicator, 2017)A close reading of Part 5 of Robert Kroetsch's 1977 long poem Seed Catalogue -
Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Methods: Review of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism, by David McNally
(Extrapolation (Liverpool UP), 2014)A book review of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism (2012) by David McNally, published in the science fiction studies journal Extrapolation. -
"Come on back to the war": Germany as the Other National Other in Canadian Popular Literature
(University of Toronto Quarterly, 2009)This essay argues for bringing the methodology of post-colonial studies to bear on mainstream Canadian popular culture, towards a rethinking of Canada's ideological affinities with nations traditionally considered as ... -
AUSpace Rebooted
(Library & Scholarly Resources, 2017)To celebrate Open Access Week and the re-launching of AUSpace, the Library will be hosting the following webinar: AUSpace Rebooted: Learn about Athabasca University's open access institutional repository. This webinar will ... -
Institutions and Interpellations of the Dubject, the Doubled and Spaced Self
(Athabasca University Press, 2016)This essay develops the idea of the dubject as a model of remediateda subjectivity. It will discuss some theoretical and institutional contexts of the dubject, and then will consider digital manifestations of the dubject ... -
Resistance is Futile: On the Under-Representation of Unions in Science Fiction
(TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 2016)This article surveys science fiction (SF) since 1980, and queries the conspicuous under-representation of recognizable images of unions in popular SF, which includes, in contrast, numerous images and narratives of corporate ...