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Alex Mayhew is currently developing a new information paradigm is called Phylomemetics. This paradigm draws inspiration from biological phylogenetics, the literature concept of tropes, and the cultural concept of memes. A Phylomemetics-enhanced Library Catalogue would allow users to create links between the catalogue records, adding meaningful connections, integrating user participation into library catalogues.

His other notable project is Aging Justice, an extension of the Social Justice concept of Health Justice into the area of aging. Under this framework the natural reduction in capacities caused by biological aging is is recognized as increasingly subject to human influence, and thus is just as much a Social Justice issue as other health concerns.

Alex also serves as a host and co-founder of the So What? podcast.

CV: Google Scholar, Orcid

LIS9001	Perspectives on Library and Information Science	Summer 2022, Summer 2024
LIS9704	Librarianship and Evolving Technologies	Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024
LIS9201	Classification and Indexing	Winter 2021 , Fall 2021, Winter 2023
LIS9002	Information Organization and Access	Fall 2020

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Technological Forecasting: An Information Science Perspective on the Future of AI ASIS&T 2023 - Student research symposium on Artificial Intelligence Sponsored by the AI-SIG and the European Chapter https://members.asist.org/events/details/student-research-symposium-on-artificial-intelligence-hosted-by-sig-ai-and-european-chapter-879598	Jun 2023
Explainable AI: Social Selection of Algorithms ASIS&T 2022 - AI in the Real World: Strengthening Connections Between LIS Research and Practice (SIG-AI) - University of Pittsburgh https://www.conftool.org/asist2022/index.php?page=browseSessions&path=adminSessions&form_session=525&presentations=show	Oct 2022
Phylomemetics as a Framework for Bibliographic Synthesis Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) https://www.cais2022.ca/talk/28.mayhew/	Jun 2022
Algorithmic Literacy and the Role for Libraries The Ontario Library Association Conference https://www.olasuperconference.ca/ola-super-conference-2022/	Feb 2022
Our LIS Careers: A Tabletop Game for Exploring Emerging Issues in Library and Information Science The Canadian Game Studies Association http://www.gamestudies.ca/conference/	May 2021
Alternative Scholarship Through Role-Playing Games Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) https://conference.capalibrarians.org/	May 2021
Explainable AI: Social Selection of Algorithms Communication & Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada https://cnmap.mcmaster.ca/events/comcultpolicy2021/cgoArchives2021/digital-culture-and-algorithmic-governance.html	May 2021
Aging Justice Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics (CSSPE) University of Western Ontario, London, ON http://csspe.ca/recorded-webinars/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3qLA54Mf2M	Feb 2021
Alternative Scholarship Through Role-Playing Games: A Practical Demonstration Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://www.cais2020.ca/talk/alternative-scholarship-through-role-playing-games	Oct 2020
Fun with Memes FIMS Graduate Research Day in association with CAIS University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://www.cais-community.ca/talk/fims2020.1mayhew/	Oct 2020
Memetic Relationships as Tillet's Shared Characteristics Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://www.cais2020.ca/talk/memetic-relationships-as-tillets-shared- characteristics	Sep 2020
The Dragonslayer: Folktale Classification, Cladistics, and Information Retrieval Document Academy (DOCAM) University of Western Ontario, London, ON http://documentacademy.org/content/2020-Program-DOCAM.pdf	Aug 2020
Phylomemetic Cataloguing: Expanding Bibliographic Relationships Beyond FRBR International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark This submission was reviewed and accepted; the conference cancelled due to COVID-19	Jul 2020
Aging Justice Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics (CSSPE) the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences University of Western Ontario, London, ON This submission was reviewed and accepted; the conference cancelled due to COVID-19 http://csspe.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CSSPE-2020-Annual-Conference- Program.pdf	Jun 2020
Alternative Scholarship Through Role-Playing Games: A Practical Demonstration Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA) Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences University of Western Ontario, London, ON This submission was reviewed and accepted; the conference cancelled due to COVID-19	Jun 2020
Panel on Emerging Diversity of Research in Library Studies Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) University of British Columbia https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1071	Jun 2019
Phylomemetic Cataloguing: Bringing Public Expertise into Knowledge Organization Faculties of Information and Media Studies, Music, and Law (FIMULAW) Conference University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fimulaw/fimulaw2019/fimulaw2019/19/	Mar 2019
Phylomemetic Cataloguing FIMULAW Conference University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fimulaw/fimulaw2018/fimulaw2018/40/	Apr 2018
A Phylogenetic Approach to Bibliographic Families and Relationships International Society for Knowledge Organization University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/nasko/article/view/15227	Jun 2017

OTHER PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS

Aging (Dis)Gracefully: Eliminating Discrimination & Extending Capacity GradCast Interview University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://gradcastradio.podbean.com/e/455-aging-disgracefully-eliminating-discrimination-extending-capacity/	Apr 2024
From Books to Bits: Decoding AI’s Future GradCast Interview University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://gradcastradio.podbean.com/e/441-from-books-to-bits-unravelling-the-ai-landscape/	Nov 2023
Technological Forecasting: An Information Science Perspective on the Future of AI Inspiring Minds: Digital Research Collection University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/inspiringminds/492/	Sep 2023
Phylomemetic Cataloguing Information In Practice, FIMS Series University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://twitter.com/FIMSGradLib/status/1658870563044044801	May 2023
The Future Risk of AI (And The Case for Preparing Now) Western Effective Altruism University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://www.linkedin.com/company/western-effective-altruism	Mar 2023
Inheritance and Lamination in the Representation of Bibliographic Relationships. Campbell, D. G., & Mayhew, A. (2020). FIMS Seminar Series http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/fims/2022-01/inheritance-and-lamination.html	Jan 2022
Phylomemetic Cataloguing Inspiring Minds: Digital Research Collection University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/inspiringminds/202/	Sep 2021
Game Play and Game Design for Library Education FIMS Mediations Series University of Western Ontario, London, ON http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/fims/2021-05/game-play-and-game-design.html	May 2021
Explainable AI: Social Selection of Algorithms FIMS Mediations Series University of Western Ontario, London, ON http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/fims/2021-03/social-selection.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvnFWvcsWmk	Mar 2021
Phylomemetic Cataloguing: Applying Biological Ideas to Knowledge Organization GradCast Interview University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://gradcastradio.podbean.com/e/special-episode-western-research-forum-2020-part-2/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWFV1DzWwQ	Jun 2020
Explainable AI: Social Selection of Algorithms Computational Social Science Club University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://www.facebook.com/uwoCompClub/	Mar 2020
Phylomemetic Cataloguing Wiki Tuesday at Western Libraries University of Western Ontario, London, ON http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/libraries/2020-01/wiki-tuesday.html	Jan 2020
Health Justice Extended: Aging Justice FIMS Mediations Series University of Western Ontario, London, ON http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/fims/2019-11/health-justice-extended.html	Nov 2019
Cataloguing Without Plato GradCast Interview University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://gradcastradio.podbean.com/e/cataloging-without-plato/	Oct 2019
Listen up: telling research stories through podcasting Open Shelf Interview, InsideOCULA By Jennifer Robinson https://open-shelf.ca/190401-ocula-lis-research-podcast/	Apr 2019
Re-imagining Cataloguing: Evolution and Participation FIMS Mediations Series University of Western Ontario, London, ON http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/fims/2018-11/re-imagining-cataloguing	Nov 2018
Review of Homo Deus and Sapiens FIMS Syllabus Series University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://syllabus.fims.uwo.ca/	Oct 2018
Games for Learning Teaching Aid Western Certificate in University Teaching and Learning University of Western Ontario, London, ON https://sites.google.com/view/t2p-games-for-learning/home	Nov 2017

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Mayhew, A. (2021). Aging Justice: Health Justice Extended. Canadian Journal of Practical Philosophy Volume 7, 2021. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/csspe/vol7/1/4/

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Chan, A., Salganik, R., Markelius, A., Pang, C., Rajkumar, N., Krasheninnikov, D., Langosco, L., He, Z., Duan, Y., Carroll, M., Lin, M., Mayhew, A., Collins, K., Molamohammadi, M., Burden, J., Zhao, W., Rismani, S., Voudouris, K., Bhatt, U., Weller, A., Krueger, D., & Maharaj, T. (2023, June). Harms from increasingly agentic algorithmic systems. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 651-666).. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10329

Campbell, D. G., & Mayhew, A. (2023). Repositioning the Base Level of Bibliographic Relationships: or, A Cataloguer, a Post-Modernist and a Chatbot Walk Into a Bar. Proceedings from North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, KO KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION, 50(8), 519-525. https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2023-8-519

Mayhew, A. (2022). Phylomemetics as a Framework for Bibliographic Synthesis. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du congrès Annuel De l’ACSI. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1267

Mayhew, A. (2020). Memetic Relationships as Tillet’s Shared Characteristics. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du congrès Annuel De l’ACSI. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1157

VanderSchans, A., Mayhew, A., & Cornwell, S. E. (2020). Alternative Scholarship through Table-top Games: A Practical Demonstration. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du congrès Annuel De l’ACSI. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1140

Mayhew, A. (2020). "The Dragonslayer: Folktale Classification, Memetics, and Cataloguing," Proceedings from the Document Academy: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 , Article 3. https://doi.org/10.35492/docam/7/1/3

Mayhew, A. (2020). Phylomemetic Cataloguing: Expanding Bibliographic Relationships Beyond FRBR. In International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), M. Lykke, T. Svarre, M. Skov, & D. Martínez-Ávila (Eds.), Knowledge Organization at the Interface: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International ISKO Conference, 2020 Aalborg, Denmark (1st ed., pp. 559–561). Ergon-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956507762-559

Campbell, D. G., & Mayhew, A. (2020). Inheritance and Lamination in the Representation of Bibliographic Relationships. In International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), M. Lykke, T. Svarre, M. Skov, & D. Martínez-Ávila (Eds.), Knowledge Organization at the Interface: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International ISKO Conference, 2020 Aalborg, Denmark (1st ed., pp. 69–77). Ergon-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956507762-69

Campbell, D. G., & Mayhew, A. (2017). A Phylogenetic Approach to Bibliographic Families and Relationships. Proceedings from North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, 6(1), 12-20. https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/nasko/article/view/15227

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