Leslie Regan Shade
Associate Professor
BA, Communication/Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
MA, Library & Information Science, UCLA
PhD, Communication, McGill University
My research and teaching for the last decade or so focuses on the social, policy, and ethical aspects of information & communication technologies. Keywords: internet, access, gender, public interest, feminist(isms), policy, media reform, youth, Canadian communication studies, political economy…
Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, Third Ed., Nelson Education, 2010.
Skimming the Cream, Throttling the Tubes, Doing the Policy Laundering, and Jiving to the Supply-Side Boogie: Challenges to the Right to Communicate in Canada in The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, Global Debates, and Future Premises, ed. Aliaa Dakroury; Mahmoud Eid; Yahya R. Kamalipour. Kendall Hunt, 2009.
Public Interest Activism in Canadian ICT Policy: Blowin’ in the Policy Winds, Global Media Journal - Canadian Edition, , 2009.
An edited collection with Marita Moll from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, For Sale to the Highest Bidder: Telecom Policy in Canada.
2008, Reconsidering the Right to Privacy in Canada, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society .
2008. Bringing Feminist Perspectives into Community Informatics, co-authored with Katrina Peddle and Alison Powell. Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal.
2008. Internet Social Networking in Young Women’s Everyday Lives: Some Insights From Focus Groups, pp. 65-73 in Our Schools Our Selves 17(4).
2008. Gendering Facebook: Privacy and Commodification, with Nicole Cohen. Feminist Media Studies 8(2): 208-212.
2008, an edited collection with Katharine Sarikakis, Feminist Interventions in International Communication: Minding the Gap , for Rowman and Littlefield’s Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics and Culture series.
2007, Contested Spaces: Protecting or Inhibiting Girls Online? In
Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies ed. Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon. (London: Palgrave).
2007, Focus on the Field: A Look at the Historiography and Role of Media in Communication Studies, in
Communications in Question: Canadian Perspectives on Controversial Issues in Communication Studies, edited Josh Greenberg and Charlene Elliott. (Toronto: Thomson Nelson).
2007. Commentary: Net Neutrality: Telecom Policy in the Public Interest, with Neil Barratt, Canadian Journal of Communication 32(2) (2007): 295-306.
2007, Feminizing the Mobile: Gender Scripting of Mobiles in North America in Continuum 21(2) and in Mobile Phone Cultures , ed. Gerard Goggin, Routledge, 2007.
Mapping Media Justice Policy Activism in the United States & Canada, funded by Concordia’s General Research Fund.
Course Blogs
International Communication, 2009
Media Institutions and Policies, 2007
Youth and Media, 2008
Youth and Media, 2007
Communications Policy, 2008
Communication Technologies & Gender, 2008
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