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Courses Fall COMS 225 – Media Institutions and Policies COMS 505 – Definitions of Media and Technology I Winter COMS 354 – Youth and Media COMS 498F – Surveillance Studies Links Them’s Fightin’ Words Mediascapes 3 SSRC Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere Leslie Regan ShadeAssociate Professor
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, feminist media studies, public interest, media and ICT policy, media reform, youth and internet, mobile media, Canadian communication studies, political economy. Some Publications New writings include work under review on: social media and activism (with Normand Landry), privacy discourses in Canada (with Tamara Shepherd), and young people and mobile phone regulation/perceptions (with Tamara Shepherd). A video-podcast on broadband access in Canada, with a veritable cast of characters canoeing up north to discuss broadband as an essential service, produced by students in COMS 644, Fall 2010. Forthcoming, 2012. Mobilizing for Development: Promises, Perils, and Policy Implications of M4D in Mobilities, Knowledge and Social Justice, edited by Suzan Ilcan (McGill-Queen’s University Press). Forthcoming, 2012. Connecting Canadians:Investigations in Community Informatics, ed. Andrew Clement, Michael Gurstein, Graham Longford, Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade. Chapters include ‘The Researcher is a Girl’: Tales on Bringing Feminist Labour Perspectives into Community Informatics Practice and Evaluation, co-authored with Katrina Peddle and Alison Powell; Community and Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives in Canada: Evolutions in Community Participation, co-authored with Alison Powell; Pushing the Public Interest, co-authored with Graham Longford and Marita Moll. 2011. The Internet Tree: The State of Telecom Policy in Canada 3.0, co-edited with Marita Moll. (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives). 2011. Co-edited with Becky Lentz, special edition of Canadian Journal of Communication, Democratizing Communication Policy in the Americas: Why It Matters. 2011. Media Reform in the United States and Canada: Activism and Advocacy for Media Policies in the Public Interest, in The Handbook on Global Media and Communication Policy, ed. Robin Mansell and Marc Raboy. Blackwell. 2011. Surveilling the Girl Via the Third and Networked Screen, in Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations in Girls’ Media Culture, ed. Mary Celeste Kearney. NY: Peter Lang. 2011: Engaging in Scholar-Activist Communication in Canada, in Communication Research in Action: Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere, ed. Philip M. Napoli and Minna Aslama Fordham University Press. 2011. Wanted, Alive and Kicking: Curious Feminist Digital Policy Geeks, in Feminist Media Studies (11)1: 123-129. Co-Edited issue with Jeffrey Layne Blevins of Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition 3(1), International Perspectives on Network Neutrality , 2010. Contested Spaces: Public Discourses and Policy Problematics (revised version), in Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies, edited by Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon. Palgrave-MacMillan, April 2010. World Media, a chapter with Katharine Sarikakis in Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women, ed. Janet Lee and Susan Shaw, McGraw Hill, March 2010. Access and Privacy chapters, in Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada, ed. Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern, UBC Press, April 2010. Editor for 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. Research Projects Young Canadians, Participatory Digital Culture and Policy Literacy, funded by SSHRC, 2010-13. Mapping Media Justice Policy Activism in the United States & Canada, funded by Concordia’s General Research Fund. Course Blogs Last update: February 02, 2012 – 11:00 | ||||||
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