FIMS Profile

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

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). Harms from Increasingly Agentic Algorithmic Systems. Facct2023 Conference. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.10329. 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, Forthcoming.

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

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Mayhew, A. (2017). Extending the FRBR model: A proposal for a Group 4. FIMS Working Papers. Scholarship@Western Repository, University of Western Ontario. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fimswp/6/

CONFERENCE POSTERS

Mayhew, A., Chen, Y., Cornwell, S. E., Delellis, N. S., Kelly, D., Liu, Y., & Rubin, V. L. (2022). Envisioning Ethical Mass Influence Systems. The 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T2022): “Crisis, Transition, Resilience: Re–Imagining an Information–Resilient Society,” October 29 – November 1, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA.October 29 – November 1, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA. https://www.asist.org/am22/in-person-posters/   

Chen, Y., Cornwell, S.,  Delellis, N. S., Kelly, D., Liu, Y., Mayhew, A., &  Rubin, V. L. (2022). Engagement for Good or Ill: Comparing Characteristics of Co-Creative and Co-Destructive Online Communities. The 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T2022): “Crisis, Transition, Resilience: Re–Imagining an Information–Resilient Society,” October 29 – November 1, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA. https://www.asist.org/am22/in-person-posters/ 

Delellis, N. S., Kelly, D., Liu, Y., Mayhew, A., Chen, Y., Cornwell, S., & Rubin, V. L. (2022).  Applying Positive Psychology’s Subjective Well-Being to Online Interactions. The 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T2022): “Crisis, Transition, Resilience: Re–Imagining an Information–Resilient Society,” October 29 – November 1, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA. https://www.asist.org/am22/in-person-posters/

 Kelly, D., Liu, Y., Mayhew, A., Chen, Y., Cornwell, S. E., Delellis, N. S., & Rubin, V. L. (2022). Supporting Prosocial Behaviour in Online Communities through Social Media Affordances. The 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T2022): “Crisis, Transition, Resilience: Re–Imagining an Information–Resilient Society,” October 29 – November 1, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA. October 29 – November 1, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA. https://www.asist.org/am22/virtual-posters/