Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study seeks to address the question of what causes lower court judges to publish decisions in particular areas of case law.

Publication Type: Invited Paper
Abstract: Any publication can be seen as an aesthetic object; complete, integrated and interrelated, with each page contributing to the effect of the whole. In this case, advertising cannot be seen as separate or detached from editorial content. The basic aesthetic strategies of advertising can be broken down into five broad categories: sex, beauty, humor, self actualization and product placement. Each of these present an aspect of visual experience that can be "borrowed" to sell a product or concept. The aesthetics or user experience of any publication must be compatible with most if not all of these perceptions and experiences of self. Examining contemporary examples of recently published magazines will show that images and aesthetic strategies that puncture or come into conflict with the operations of advertising cannot receive wide circulation within the broader media landscape. It will also show how advertising influences the editorial by introducing visuals that operate against the visual experiences of hard news, in particular war, disease, famine, deprivation and human suffering. Representations of these subjects must conform to the aesthetic operations of the advertising that they accompany, for it is that very advertising that pays for their distribution.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: On the basis of an ethnographic research, this paper shows how scholarly publishers use product mix as a means to maintain their firms as going concerns while fulfilling their cultural responsibility. While the institutional theories of organizations provide the basic frame of analysis, special attention is paid to the multiplicity of the organizational field to which publishing firms belong. It is argued that the organizational field include at least four “institutional logics” (i.e., culture, commerce, craft, and bureaucracy) and they constitute two major types of dilemmas for the publisher. One type of dilemma is concerned with the contradiction between culture and commerce and the other is concerned with the contradiction between craft and bureaucracy. The editor-centered and author-centered portfolios are two major product mix policies that can be identified as the means to bypass the craft-bureaucracy and culture-commerce dilemmas. In conclusion, this paper argues that four institutional logics coexisting in the multiplex organizational field correspond to four components of the hybrid organizational identity of a publisher: cultural institution, business, craft, and bureaucracy.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: No abstract - m.e.

Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: I never knew why my mother had been locked up in a psychiatric hospital in Québec for nearly 30 years, 1942-1970. We rarely talked about her and hardly visited her. It took me 12 years to reconstruct and publish her story with photographs (1996-2008). “Very moving and poignant” (Phyllis Chesler).