Publications & Reports

As an interdisciplinary scholar, my work spans a diverse range of subject areas, spanning from social media and health, to gender, to rural health matters, and environment. These are represented here by theme.

If you can’t access any of these, please contact me. I do not have copies of all versions but may have some PDFs available.

Social Media and Health

• DiFrancesco, D. (2025). “Just to keep my thoughts good: Emotion-management and ideological reinforcement among mothers on Facebook”. Under Review.
• DiFrancesco, D. (2025). “Mothers in the echo chamber? Social processes of health learning in ideologically-biased “mom groups” on Facebook”. Under Review.
• DiFrancesco, D. (2025). “Constructing difference: Health boundary-work in science-based and natural mom groups on Facebook.” Symbolic Interaction . (In Press)
• *Wellstead, D. (2020). “Narratives of mothers’ medical experiences on the internet: A challenge to medical dominance?”, in From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine. (Bannerji, R., and Mukhida, K, eds.) Demeter Press.
• Wellstead, D. A. (2020). Digitally-Mediated Mothering: An Ethnography of Health and Parenting Groups on Facebook (Doctoral dissertation, Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa).

Rural Health Care Workforce

• Ogundeji, Y., Clement, F., Wellstead, D., Farkas, B., & Manns, B. (2021). Primary care physicians’ perceptions of the role of alternative payment models in recruitment and retention in rural Alberta: a qualitative study. Canadian Medical Association Open Access Journal, 9(3), E788-E794.

Young-Onset Dementia

• Agboji, A., DiFrancesco, D., & Avoumatsodo, K. (2025). Is it time to rethink how we measure the quality of life in young-onset dementia?. Journal of Alzheimer’s disease: JAD, 13872877251385197.

Health Technology Assessments

• Mastikhina, L et al. (includes Darryn Wellstead). (2020). Health technology assessment: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) for Treatment-resistant Depression. Prepared by the Health Technology Assessment Unit, University of Calgary.
• Li, J. et al. (includes Darryn Wellstead). (2020). Health technology assessment: Offloading devices for diabetic foot ulcers (DFU). Prepared by the Health Technology Assessment Unit, University of Calgary.

Community Development

• DiFrancesco, D. A. (2010). Fishing for Foresters: A New Institutional Analysis of Community Participation in an Aboriginal-owned Forest Company (Doctoral dissertation, University of Ottawa [Canada]).

Climate Change/Environment

• DiFrancesco, D., “Images of Climate Change: A Practical Approach”, in Image Studies (Manghani, S., ed.). Routledge (2012). [Featured Research]
• DiFrancesco, D. A., and Young, N. (2011). “Seeing Climate Change: The visual construction of global warming in Canadian national print media”, cultural geographies, Volume 18, Issue 4, pp. 517-536 (2011).*
  • *Reprinted in:  Hulme, Mike, ed. (2015). Climates and Cultures: Climate Change in  Literary, Visual and Performance Cultures. Volume Six: Climate Change in Literary, Visual, and Performance Cultures. Los Angeles: SAGE.

Women’s Health

• Wellstead, D., “Anti-Vax Movement” in Women’s Health: Understanding Issues and Influences. (Duqaine-Watson, J., ed.) ABC-CLIO. (2021).
• Wellstead, D. “Miscarriage” in Women’s Health: Understanding Issues and Influences. (Duqaine-Watson, J., ed.) ABC-CLIO. (2021).
• Wellstead, D. “Online Communities” in Women’s Health: Understanding Issues and Influences. (Duqaine-Watson, J., ed.) ABC-CLIO. (2021).

Government and Community Reports

• The Peace Project Fort St. John (includes Darryn DiFrancesco). (2015). “What are the options? A Manual for Community-Based Service Providers in Fort St. John who Work with Women and Families who Experience Violence”. Funded by Status of Women Canada.

• Michael A, Damani D, DiFrancesco D, Dickson D, Anastos D, Tee S. (2009). “Thematic Indicators Report”. Prepared for the Evaluation, Performance Measurement and Review Branch, Audit and Evaluation Sector, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.