Jamie Duncan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3844735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Duncan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-9085-8666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Poetic trajectories: Ethnographic accounts of art, literacies and education from an Amazonian archipelago
This article reports ethnographic fieldwork on literacy and community arts. The setting is an arts education project named Tecno Barca working in the Bailique Archipelago, a cluster of small islands and riverside communities, situated within the Amazon River (Amapá, Brazil). It begins with a theoretical overview of ethnography, ethnographic perspectives on literacies, critical understandings of creativity, as well as biographical, semiotic and te…
Sociolinguistics of Literacy During the Development of Sociolinguistics: Interview With Roger W. Shuy
This article presents correspondences with Roger W. Shuy carried out from February 2025 to March 2026. Shuy is a linguist known for his pioneering work in Forensic Linguistics since the 1980s. Prior to that, during the 1970s and 1960s, Shuy played a founding role in the development of US Sociolinguistics, especially advancing sociolinguistic approaches to African American Vernacular English, reading, and literacy. Working with William Labov, amon…
Why data about people are so hard to govern
How data on individuals are gathered, analyzed, and stored remains largely ungoverned at both domestic and global levels. We address the unique governance problem posed by digital data to provide a framework for understanding why data governance remains elusive. Data are easily transferable and replicable, making them a useful tool. But this characteristic creates massive governance problems for all of us who want to have some agency and choice o…
Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964-1972 - Erratum
Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964-1972
William Labov carried out literacy research throughout his career from the 1960s to 2010s. This developed in tandem with his linguistic documentation of African American Vernacular English. Both began in 1965, when Labov received funding for a three-year fieldwork project on Black youths' language and schooling in Harlem, New York. Literacy was an important political issue in the 1960s, with substantial funding to raise basic education levels, as…
Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada
This paper examines the state of Canada’s federal access to information (ATI) regime. Drawing from literature on government transparency, we conceptualize Bill C-58 and the problems it proposes to address as a form of policy discordance. We assess the recent digitization of ATI in Canada by analyzing data on request abandonment, record exemptions, as well as variation by ministry. In so doing, we identify tensions between strategic narratives of …
Access to information research in the digital era
In the four decades since Canada's Access to Information Act (1983) came into force, the massive proliferation of digital technologies has prompted significant transformations in the operations of modern governments. The impacts of this digital era on access to information (ATI) research in Canada—by which we mean both research on ATI law (and its administration) as well as research using ATI law (to generate data)—have not received the scholarly…
Jumpstarting the Justice Disciplines: A Computational-Qualitative Approach to Collecting and Analyzing Text and Image Data in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies
Computational methods are increasingly popular in criminal justice research. As more criminal justice data becomes available in 'big' and other digital formats, new means of embracing the computational turn are needed. In this article, we propose a framework for data collection and case sampling using computational methods, allowing researchers to conduct thick qualitative research – analyses concerned with the particularities of a social context…
Police Union Political Communications in Canada
The political communications of police unions in the digital age deserve more attention from criminologists. This article examines the communications of two Canadian police associations in Toronto and Winnipeg. Using multimodal discourse analysis, we describe how police unions tactically engage with multiple forms of media to disseminate strategic narratives that reflect police identity and ideology. We conceptualize the mobilization of ‘thin blu…
Researching Protest Literacies: Literacy As Protest in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada
This paper examines the state of Canada’s federal access to information (ATI) regime. Drawing from literature on government transparency, we conceptualize Bill C-58 and the problems it proposes to address as a form of policy discordance. We assess the recent digitization of ATI in Canada by analyzing data on request abandonment, record exemptions, as well as variation by ministry. In so doing, we identify tensions between strategic narratives of …
Why data about people are so hard to govern
How data on individuals are gathered, analyzed, and stored remains largely ungoverned at both domestic and global levels. We address the unique governance problem posed by digital data to provide a framework for understanding why data governance remains elusive. Data are easily transferable and replicable, making them a useful tool. But this characteristic creates massive governance problems for all of us who want to have some agency and choice o…
Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964-1972 - Erratum
Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964-1972
William Labov carried out literacy research throughout his career from the 1960s to 2010s. This developed in tandem with his linguistic documentation of African American Vernacular English. Both began in 1965, when Labov received funding for a three-year fieldwork project on Black youths' language and schooling in Harlem, New York. Literacy was an important political issue in the 1960s, with substantial funding to raise basic education levels, as…
Researching Protest Literacies: Literacy As Protest in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Jumpstarting the Justice Disciplines: A Computational-Qualitative Approach to Collecting and Analyzing Text and Image Data in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies
Computational methods are increasingly popular in criminal justice research. As more criminal justice data becomes available in 'big' and other digital formats, new means of embracing the computational turn are needed. In this article, we propose a framework for data collection and case sampling using computational methods, allowing researchers to conduct thick qualitative research – analyses concerned with the particularities of a social context…
Police Union Political Communications in Canada
The political communications of police unions in the digital age deserve more attention from criminologists. This article examines the communications of two Canadian police associations in Toronto and Winnipeg. Using multimodal discourse analysis, we describe how police unions tactically engage with multiple forms of media to disseminate strategic narratives that reflect police identity and ideology. We conceptualize the mobilization of ‘thin blu…
Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada
This paper examines the state of Canada’s federal access to information (ATI) regime. Drawing from literature on government transparency, we conceptualize Bill C-58 and the problems it proposes to address as a form of policy discordance. We assess the recent digitization of ATI in Canada by analyzing data on request abandonment, record exemptions, as well as variation by ministry. In so doing, we identify tensions between strategic narratives of …
Access to information research in the digital era
In the four decades since Canada's Access to Information Act (1983) came into force, the massive proliferation of digital technologies has prompted significant transformations in the operations of modern governments. The impacts of this digital era on access to information (ATI) research in Canada—by which we mean both research on ATI law (and its administration) as well as research using ATI law (to generate data)—have not received the scholarly…
Why data about people are so hard to govern
How data on individuals are gathered, analyzed, and stored remains largely ungoverned at both domestic and global levels. We address the unique governance problem posed by digital data to provide a framework for understanding why data governance remains elusive. Data are easily transferable and replicable, making them a useful tool. But this characteristic creates massive governance problems for all of us who want to have some agency and choice o…
Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964-1972 - Erratum
Labovian sociolinguistics of literacy: Theoretical, practical, and political developments from 1964-1972
William Labov carried out literacy research throughout his career from the 1960s to 2010s. This developed in tandem with his linguistic documentation of African American Vernacular English. Both began in 1965, when Labov received funding for a three-year fieldwork project on Black youths' language and schooling in Harlem, New York. Literacy was an important political issue in the 1960s, with substantial funding to raise basic education levels, as…
Poetic trajectories: Ethnographic accounts of art, literacies and education from an Amazonian archipelago
This article reports ethnographic fieldwork on literacy and community arts. The setting is an arts education project named Tecno Barca working in the Bailique Archipelago, a cluster of small islands and riverside communities, situated within the Amazon River (Amapá, Brazil). It begins with a theoretical overview of ethnography, ethnographic perspectives on literacies, critical understandings of creativity, as well as biographical, semiotic and te…
Sociolinguistics of Literacy During the Development of Sociolinguistics: Interview With Roger W. Shuy
This article presents correspondences with Roger W. Shuy carried out from February 2025 to March 2026. Shuy is a linguist known for his pioneering work in Forensic Linguistics since the 1980s. Prior to that, during the 1970s and 1960s, Shuy played a founding role in the development of US Sociolinguistics, especially advancing sociolinguistic approaches to African American Vernacular English, reading, and literacy. Working with William Labov, amon…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literacy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works)