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Emily Villanueva

Communication and Business Librarian
BA (MacEwan), MA (Alberta), MLIS (Alberta)
+1 (780) 497-4564
Biography

Emily Villanueva is a communication and business librarian at MacEwan University. She is a subject liaison librarian for the Department of Decision Sciences and the Department of International Business, Marketing, Strategy and Law. Her research interests lie at the intersection of information behaviour, social media, popular culture, and the body.

Selected Publications/Presentations/Conference Papers

Villanueva, E. (2021). The body as information: An emergent theory of social positioning and information behaviours in a virtual diet community [Master’s thesis, University of Alberta]. ERA. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-qhx4-hb56

Villanueva, E., & Ensslin, A. (2021). Divine intervention: Multimodal pragmatics and unconventional opposition in performed character speech in Dragon Age: Inquisition. In G. Planchenault & L. Poljak (Eds.), Pragmatics of accents (pp. 205-227). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.327.09vil

Villanueva, E., & Shiri, A. (2021). Methodological diversity in the evaluation of cultural heritage digital libraries and archives: An analysis of frameworks and methods. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 43(3), 316-342. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/781390

Villanueva, E., & McCashin, L. (2021, June 4). Disco Elysium: Ideology, culture, and the fictional future of globalization in post-Soviet Estonia [Video presentation]. Canadian Game Studies Association: Solidarity and Social Justice in Games Studies – A Colloquium, University of Alberta [virtual]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzjN8Wp-rg0

Shiri, A., & Villanueva, E. (2020, September 16). Methodological diversity in the evaluation of cultural heritage digital libraries and archives [Paper presentation]. Canadian Association for Information Science: Diverging Trajectories in Information Science, Western University [virtual]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk1_Wm1Y9vw&t=501s