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Dr Ludovica Price

Visiting Lecturer

School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering

Contact details

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Dr Ludovica Price City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Ludi Price is a Visiting Lecturer for the Library & Information Science Masters course, also known as #CityLIS. She completed her PhD in Information Science at City, which focused on the information behaviour of fan communities on the internet – her thesis was titled “Serious leisure in the digital world: exploring the information behaviours of fan communities”. Her research interests are presently focused on fan information behaviour, fan tagging and folksonomies, social curation, commons-based peer production and multidisciplinarity in LIS. She is co-founder of the FanLIS Project, which aims to build bridges between fandom, fan studies, and LIS.

Ludi is also librarian for China & Inner Asia at SOAS Library.

Qualifications

  1. PhD, City, University London, United Kingdom, Oct 2013 – Nov 2017
  2. MSc, City, University London, United Kingdom, Oct 2011 – Jul 2012
  3. BA Hons, School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom, Sep 2000 – Jul 2004

Employment

  1. Visiting Lecturer, City, University London, Oct 2020 – present
  2. Honorary Visiting Fellow, City, University London, May 2018 – Sep 2020
  3. Librarian (China & Inner Asia), School of Oriental and African Studies, May 2013 – present

Memberships of professional organisations

  1. Member, CILIP, 2011 – present

Publications

Featured publications

  1. Price, L. (2019). Fandom, Folksonomies and Creativity: the case of the Archive of Our Own. The Human Position in an Artificial World: Creativity, Ethics and AI in Knowledge Organization (pp. 11–37). Ergon Verlag.
  2. Price, L. and Robinson, L. (2021). Tag analysis as a tool for investigating information behaviour: comparing fan-tagging on Tumblr, Archive of Our Own and Etsy. Journal of Documentation, 77(2), pp. 320–358. doi:10.1108/jd-05-2020-0089.
  3. Price, L. and Robinson, L. (2017). ‘Being in a knowledge space’: Information behaviour of cult media fan communities. Journal of Information Science, 43(5), pp. 649–664. doi:10.1177/0165551516658821.

Publications by category

Journal articles (10)

  1. Wang, E.N., Kelley, B., Price, L. and Schuster, K. (2020). Beyond the multidisciplinary in fan studies: Learning how to talk among disciplines. Transformative Works and Cultures, 33. doi:10.3983/twc.2020.1819.
  2. Ocepek, M.G., Bullard, J., Hartel, J., Forcier, E., Polkinghorne, S. and Price, L. (2018). Fandom, food, and folksonomies: The methodological realities of studying fun life‐contexts. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), pp. 712–715. doi:10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501089.
  3. Price, L. and Robinson, L. (2017). Fan fiction in the library. Transformative Works and Cultures, 25. doi:10.3983/twc.2017.01090.
  4. Price, L. (2017). The Special Collections Handbook (2nd edition). Reference Reviews, 31(6), pp. 8–9. doi:10.1108/rr-04-2017-0088.
  5. Baker, J., Moore, C., Priego, E., Alegre, R., Cope, J., Price, L. … Wilson, G. (2016). Library Carpentry: Software Skills Training for Library Professionals. LIBER QUARTERLY, 26(3), pp. 141–162. doi:10.18352/lq.10176.
  6. Price, L. (2016). Survey of Historic Costume (6th edition). Reference Reviews, 30(5), pp. 20–21. doi:10.1108/rr-02-2016-0048.
  7. (2015). A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien. Reference Reviews, 29(6), pp. 27–28. doi:10.1108/rr-03-2015-0046.
  8. Price, L. (2014). The Sims: A Retrospective – A Participatory Culture 14 Years On. Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, (7), pp. 135–140.
  9. Margree, P., MacFarlane, A., Price, L. and Robinson, L. (2014). Information behaviour of music record collectors. Information Research, 19(4).
  10. Price, L. (2013). Fanning Flames: A Review of The Adoring Audience. The Comics Grid, 3(1). doi:10.5334/cg.ah.

Thesis/dissertation

  1. Price, L. Serious Leisure In The Digital World: Exploring The Information Behaviour Of Fan Communities. (PhD Thesis)

Professional activities

Other

  1. Co-founder, FanLIS project (Oct 2019 – present).