Amelia N Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amelia N Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amelia N |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3584-1259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Birth-Parent Perspectives on Safety and Trust in Inpatient Postpartum Health Care
Opportunities to Retrofit, Reform, and Reimagine Systematic Reviews for Racial Equity
Systematic reviews are used for synthesizing and summarizing published research on any given topic and population of interest. These reviews can expand knowledge within a content area but are limited by place and time values, which can perpetuate bias and systemic racism. This article reports a student's experience with conducting a systematic review on breastfeeding experiences among black birthing parents. We explore the systematic racism perpe…
Navigating ‘danger zones’
Marginalized people often incur risk when interacting with information providers and institutions; they must weigh the risk of those interactions against the possible benefits of the knowledge or services gained. In this study, we analyze Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) teens and tweens’ articulation of their information practices and their risk management through information seeking. Using data from group interviews with 58 Black,…
The Problem with “Most People”
Public health communication related to COVID-19 does not typically address the needs of “high-risk” Americans. Rather, pandemic-era policy has prioritized those who have the lowest risks for complications and mortality—white, nondisabled, employed, housed, middle- to high-income American citizens with private health insurance. This article addresses whether commonly held definitions of misinformation and “health literacy” are useful when public h…
Screening and Referral for Social Determinants of Health
Objective: To identify patient and health care team perspectives on screening and referral for Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) in maternity care. Methods: This human-centered design study was conducted in a prenatal clinic and in the surrounding community of a university teaching hospital in the Southeastern United States. Qualitative data were collected through semistructured interviews and focus groups between March 2019 and February 2020,…
Articulations toward a crip HCI
research-article Articulations toward a crip HCI Share on Authors: Rua M. Williams Purdue University Purdue UniversityView Profile , Kathryn Ringland University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa CruzView Profile , Amelia Gibson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel HillView Profile , Mahender Mandala Georgia Tech Georgia TechView Profile , Arne Maibaum Technical University of Be…
Struggling to breathe
Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide a follow up to “Libraries on the Frontlines: Neutrality and Social Justice,” which was published here in 2017. It addresses institutional responses to protests and uprising in the spring and summer of 2020 after the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, all of which occurred in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The article expands the previous call for libraries to t…
Libraries on the frontlines
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine libraries’ responsibility to engage with and support communities of color as they challenge systemic racism, engage in the political process, and exercise their right to free speech. Many libraries have ignored the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, citing the need to maintain neutrality. Despite extensive scholarship questioning the validity of this concept, the framing of library neutrality as non…
Building a Progressive-Situational Model of Post-Diagnosis Information Seeking for Parents of Individuals With Down Syndrome
This grounded theory study used in-depth, semi-structured interview to examine the information-seeking behaviors of 35 parents of children with Down syndrome. Emergent themes include a progressive pattern of behavior including information overload and avoidance, passive attention, and active information seeking; varying preferences between tacit and explicit information at different stages; and selection of information channels and sources that v…
Latinas cross the IT border
How do successful Latina IT professionals construct and reconstruct their conceptions of gender before, during, and after contact with the information world of the IT industry? We conducted semi-structured phone interviews with five Latinas who held senior management positions in IT firms in 2008 to explore their reasons for choosing and persisting in the workforce. Using the theory of information worlds as a framework for analysis of gender as a…
The Private Finance Initiative
In the 1980s the Conservative government sought to mobilise private sector financial resources, and the white paper Pr ivate Finance in Public Expenditure (HM Treasury 1988) started the process. The Private Finance Initiative was launched in 1992. Its stated aim was to form a private-public sector partnership, in order to enable the private sector to enter the domain previously regarded as intrinsically public. It was hoped that PFI would secure …
Libraries on the frontlines
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine libraries’ responsibility to engage with and support communities of color as they challenge systemic racism, engage in the political process, and exercise their right to free speech. Many libraries have ignored the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, citing the need to maintain neutrality. Despite extensive scholarship questioning the validity of this concept, the framing of library neutrality as non…
The Private Finance Initiative
In the 1980s the Conservative government sought to mobilise private sector financial resources, and the white paper Pr ivate Finance in Public Expenditure (HM Treasury 1988) started the process. The Private Finance Initiative was launched in 1992. Its stated aim was to form a private-public sector partnership, in order to enable the private sector to enter the domain previously regarded as intrinsically public. It was hoped that PFI would secure …
Struggling to breathe
Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide a follow up to “Libraries on the Frontlines: Neutrality and Social Justice,” which was published here in 2017. It addresses institutional responses to protests and uprising in the spring and summer of 2020 after the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, all of which occurred in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The article expands the previous call for libraries to t…
The Private Finance Initiative
In the 1980s the Conservative government sought to mobilise private sector financial resources, and the white paper Pr ivate Finance in Public Expenditure (HM Treasury 1988) started the process. The Private Finance Initiative was launched in 1992. Its stated aim was to form a private-public sector partnership, in order to enable the private sector to enter the domain previously regarded as intrinsically public. It was hoped that PFI would secure …
Latinas cross the IT border
How do successful Latina IT professionals construct and reconstruct their conceptions of gender before, during, and after contact with the information world of the IT industry? We conducted semi-structured phone interviews with five Latinas who held senior management positions in IT firms in 2008 to explore their reasons for choosing and persisting in the workforce. Using the theory of information worlds as a framework for analysis of gender as a…
Building a Progressive-Situational Model of Post-Diagnosis Information Seeking for Parents of Individuals With Down Syndrome
This grounded theory study used in-depth, semi-structured interview to examine the information-seeking behaviors of 35 parents of children with Down syndrome. Emergent themes include a progressive pattern of behavior including information overload and avoidance, passive attention, and active information seeking; varying preferences between tacit and explicit information at different stages; and selection of information channels and sources that v…
Libraries on the frontlines
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine libraries’ responsibility to engage with and support communities of color as they challenge systemic racism, engage in the political process, and exercise their right to free speech. Many libraries have ignored the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, citing the need to maintain neutrality. Despite extensive scholarship questioning the validity of this concept, the framing of library neutrality as non…
Struggling to breathe
Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide a follow up to “Libraries on the Frontlines: Neutrality and Social Justice,” which was published here in 2017. It addresses institutional responses to protests and uprising in the spring and summer of 2020 after the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, all of which occurred in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The article expands the previous call for libraries to t…
Articulations toward a crip HCI
research-article Articulations toward a crip HCI Share on Authors: Rua M. Williams Purdue University Purdue UniversityView Profile , Kathryn Ringland University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa CruzView Profile , Amelia Gibson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Chapel HillView Profile , Mahender Mandala Georgia Tech Georgia TechView Profile , Arne Maibaum Technical University of Be…
Screening and Referral for Social Determinants of Health
Objective: To identify patient and health care team perspectives on screening and referral for Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) in maternity care. Methods: This human-centered design study was conducted in a prenatal clinic and in the surrounding community of a university teaching hospital in the Southeastern United States. Qualitative data were collected through semistructured interviews and focus groups between March 2019 and February 2020,…
Navigating ‘danger zones’
Marginalized people often incur risk when interacting with information providers and institutions; they must weigh the risk of those interactions against the possible benefits of the knowledge or services gained. In this study, we analyze Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) teens and tweens’ articulation of their information practices and their risk management through information seeking. Using data from group interviews with 58 Black,…
The Problem with “Most People”
Public health communication related to COVID-19 does not typically address the needs of “high-risk” Americans. Rather, pandemic-era policy has prioritized those who have the lowest risks for complications and mortality—white, nondisabled, employed, housed, middle- to high-income American citizens with private health insurance. This article addresses whether commonly held definitions of misinformation and “health literacy” are useful when public h…
Opportunities to Retrofit, Reform, and Reimagine Systematic Reviews for Racial Equity
Systematic reviews are used for synthesizing and summarizing published research on any given topic and population of interest. These reviews can expand knowledge within a content area but are limited by place and time values, which can perpetuate bias and systemic racism. This article reports a student's experience with conducting a systematic review on breastfeeding experiences among black birthing parents. We explore the systematic racism perpe…
Birth-Parent Perspectives on Safety and Trust in Inpatient Postpartum Health Care
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Library Science and Administration (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works)