Graham, Rumi

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    What we do today will change what happens tomorrow: learnings from university teaching during COVID-19 for post-pandemic times
    (Elon Center for Engaged Learning, 2024) Weilandt, Joerdis; Marynowski, Richelle; Graham, Rumi Y.; Beaudin, Lorraine; Dixon, Sandra; Malla, Stavroula; Pantazi, Angeliki
    This chapter explores the rapid shift to emergency online teaching at a university due to COVID-19, reflecting on the profound impacts on educators's roles and pedagogical practices. Through a mixed-methods study including surveys and interviews, the authors investigated the challenges and learning outcomes of faculty as they navigated this transition. Key findings emphasize the necessity of flexibility in instructional design, increased awareness of student's needs, and a transformative shift in teaching approaches. The research highlights the importance of mental well-being for faculty, advocating for a trauma-informed, equity-centered approach in educational settings. Overall, the chapter calls for sustainable support systems and inclusive teaching practices that can adapt to future challenges, emphasizing the lasting impact of these changes on educational policies and practices
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    Best practice copyright codes for media use, re-use & preservation
    (2024) Whitehead, Jessica L.; Andersen, Joceline; Hanstke, Tamar; Smith, Christine F.; Singh, Cyrus S.; Graham, Rumi Y.; Taylor, Aaron
    A workshop presented at the 2024 annual conferences of the Film & Media Studies Association (FMSAC, June 16) and the Canadian Communication Association (CCA, June 19) in Montreal, Quebec. Participants discussed copyright problems commonly encountered as they carry out teaching, research, and other scholarly activities involving accessing, reusing, and preserving media content. Workshop presenters briefly outlined the origins and activities of the Media Access and Copyright (MAC) Working Group convened in 2021 to explore how these kinds of copyright challenges might be alleviated for media and communication scholars and academic librarians at post-secondary institutions across Canada. Presenters described how practitioner communities can collaboratively develop codes of best practices in using fair dealing and other statutory user's rights to ease copyright anxiety and copyright chill, which, in turn, can promote copyright-aligned ways of pursuing ordinary scholarly activities that further the educational and professional missions of academic staff who work in media-intensive fields.
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    Leaps in media access & reuse: copyright codes of best practice
    (2024) Smith, Christine F.; Graham, Rumi Y.; Revitt, Eva
    Extended abstract of a co-authored paper submitted to the 52 annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science held online June 4 - 7, 2024. Winner, Best Submission by a Practitioner. Academic librarians and media scholars face increasing pressures to preserve, provide access to, and reuse media technology. Simultaneously, technological advances add complexities to assessing the applicability of fair dealing to unauthorized scholarly uses of copyright-protected content. To address these challenges, concerned members of these two communities have joined forces to create the Media Access and Copyright (MAC) Working Group. This paper provides an overview of MAC's structure and achievements as well as its current research project, the development of two codes of best practices aimed at supporting informed decision making in the application of fair dealing by scholars and practitioners.
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    Leaps in media access & reuse: copyright codes of best practice
    (2024) Smith, Christine F.; Graham, Rumi Y.; Revitt, Eva
    Session co-presented June 5, 2024 at the 52 annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science held online June 4 - 7, 2024. Abstract: Academic librarians and media scholars face increasing pressures to preserve, provide access to, and reuse media technology. Simultaneously, technological advances add complexities to assessing the applicability of fair dealing to unauthorized scholarly uses of copyright-protected content. To address these challenges, concerned members of these two communities have joined forces to create the Media Access and Copyright (MAC) Working Group. This session provides an overview of MAC's structure and achievements as well as its current research project, the development of two codes of best practices aimed at supporting informed decision making in the application of fair dealing by scholars and practitioners.
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    Copyright codes of best practices for media access, reuse and preservation
    (2024) Graham, Rumi Y.; Langrell, Kate; McPeak, Taylor; Taylor, Don
    Session presented June 21, 2024 at the ABC Copyright Conference, Halifax, NS. Abstract: Educators, researchers, artist-scholars, and librarians face a pressing need to be able to continue to access, preserve, and reuse media content. Barriers to access, preservation, and reuse are increasing as copyright owners continue to use technology to lock-down access and move the industry away from physical formats towards streaming media and licensing, and the resultant overriding of copyright exceptions. This session highlights a pan-Canadian multi-institutional initiative to develop two best practices codes in applying fair dealing and other exceptions (user rights) in scholarly and professional practices involving copyright-protected media. The Media Access and Copyright Group (MAC) was created under the sponsorship of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada. Comprising about 40 communication and media studies scholars, academic librarians, copyright advisors, filmmakers, and legal experts, MAC is developing two codes to help media and communication scholars and academic librarians understand when unauthorized uses of media content may be permissible for educational, research-creation, or preservation purposes. The session will briefly outline the structure of MAC and its best practices research project,. This session also touches on the importance of best practices codes for fair dealing. In the Q&A, presenters will invite attendees to share their experiences in using, or advising on the use, of media content in the teaching and research environment and on the uncertainties they face in discerning copyright issues in this area.