Searching for Trust
Searching for Trust explores the intersection of trust, disinformation, and blockchain technology in an age of heightened institutional and epistemic mistrust. It adopts a unique archival theoretic lens to delve into how computational information processing has gradually supplanted traditional record-keeping, putting at risk a centuries-old tradition of the ‘moral defense of the record’ and replacing […]
Cataloguing Culture
How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying and cataloguing hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and tribal affiliations – much of it wrong. Cataloguing Culture examines how colonialism operates in museum […]
Medicine at Monte Cassino
Medicine at Monte Cassino offers unprecedented insights into the revolutionary arrival of Arabic medicine to medieval Europe by exploring the oldest manuscript of Constantine the African’s Pantegni, which is identified here, for the first time, as a product of the skilled team of scribes and scholars working directly under the supervision of Constantine himself at […]
Books Before Print
This beautifully illustrated book provides an accessible introduction to the medieval manuscript and what it can tell us about the world in which it was made and used. Captured in the materiality of manuscripts are the data enabling us to make sense of the preferences and habits of the individuals who made up medieval society. […]
The European Book in the Twelfth Century
The ‘long twelfth century’ (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the ‘twelfth-century Renaissance’ as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture […]
Digital Technology and Sustainability: Engaging the Paradox
Edited By Mike Hazas and Lisa Nathan Congratulations to UBC iSchool Associate Professor Lisa Nathan for the publication of Digital Technology and Sustainability: Engaging the Paradox. Bringing together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI), this book discusses what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans […]
Public Access to Information for Development : a Guide to the Effective Implementation of Right to Information Laws
Victoria L. Lemieux and Stephanie E. Trapnell With more than 100 right to information (RTI) laws—also called freedom of information or access to information laws—now in place globally, the groundwork has been laid to advance more transparent, accountable, and inclusive governance as a pathway to poverty reduction and economic development. This guide explores the historical […]
Building Trust in Information: Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provnance
By Victoria L. Lemieux Congratulations to UBC iSchool Associate Professor Victoria Lemieux on the publication of Building Trust in Information: Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provnance. This book reports on the results of an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary workshop on provenance that brought together researchers and practitioners from different areas such as archival science, law, information […]
Why Engagement Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives of User Engagement in Digital Media
Edited by Heather O’Brien and Paul Cairns UBC iSchool Associate Professor Heather O’Brien publishes new book on user engagement. What do we mean when we say that our goal is to engage users with technology, and what are the benefits of doing so? How we define UE conceptually is indicative of the larger set of […]