October 15, 2005
Them's Fightin' Words
Leslie's new blog thanks to the ever-talented & eclectic Miriam Verburg.
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October 02, 2005
Manuel Castells
Bio and homepage at USC Includes some recent publications by and on Castells.
Felix Stalder, The Network Paradigm: Social Formations in the Age of Information
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September 27, 2005
Andrea Langlois
Andrea Langlois is the co-editor of Autonomous Media and a graduate of the MA Program in Media Studies at Concordia University.
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Datin Barney
Darin Barney's bio at McGill. He is Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship.
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March 28, 2005
Claudia Mitchell
Claudia is a Professor at McGill's Department of Education and a member of the Image and Identity Research Collective (IIRC).
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March 12, 2005
Andrew Clement
Andrew Clement is a Professor at the Faculty of Information Studies at the University off Toronto.
His project Everyday Experiences of Networked Services is a three-year SSHRC project:
"Through multiple, in depth interviews with more than 100 individuals conducted in their homes and at public access facilities while using the internet, this study will provide insights into the social meanings that internet and related networked services have for people in their daily lives. This research will contribute to our theoretical and practical knowledge of the social significance of the widespread domestic adoption of the internet."
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March 09, 2005
Kirsty Best
Kirsty Best is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa.
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February 20, 2005
Michael Longford
Michael Longford page at Concordia; see also Digital Cities Project and Mobile Digital Commons Network.
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Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annnibale
Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annnibale page at University of Windsor.
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February 19, 2005
Serge Proulx
Serge Proulx est Professeur titulaire, Département des communications, Université du Québec à Montréal; Responsable du Laboratoire de communication médiatisée par ordinateur (LabCMO).
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Doug Schuler
Doug Schuler is a former chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and a founding member of the Seattle Community Network (SCN).
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Bruce Bimber
Bruce Bimber is the Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society and Associate Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Amitai Etzioni
Amitai Etzioni is the first University Professor at The George Washington University, where he is the Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies. Look at his E-Village Archive on his blog.
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Phil Agre
Phil Agre is a professor in the Dept. of Information Studies a UCLA.
Check out Networking on the Network , "which includes good advice accumulated from dozens of people over many years, and I want to get it into the hands of every PhD student in the world."
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Douglas Kellner
Douglas Kellner is the George. F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair at UCLA.
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February 12, 2005
Brian Beaton
Brian is the K-Net Coordinator. Here are photos of his cute grandkids
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Graham Longford
Graham Longford is currently a post-doc at CRACIN; profile is here.
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Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle's homepage at MIT can be found here
She founded the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.
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Hubert Dreyfus
Hubert Dreyfus homepage at UC Berkeley is here
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Albert Borgmann
Albert Borgmann's homepage at the University of Montana can be found here
An interview/dialogue with him and N. Katharine Hayles on humans and machines can be found at the University of Chicago Press site.
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Maria Bakardjieva
Maria's homepage info at Univ Calgary can be found here.
Her new book, Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday Life will be published by Sage in April 2005.
See also a blurb in the U Calgary paper about her research on the everyday uses of the internet.
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January 30, 2005
Marc Raboy
Marc Raboy is the new Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications at McGill University.
A profile in McGill's Reporter.
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Robert Luke
Alas, this was the pic given on the KMDI Fellow Page ; but here is his RCAT Homepage.
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Éric George
Professor, University of Ottawa, from webpage "Analyse des liens entre la concentration du capital et la convergence économique d'une part et le pluralisme de l'information et la diversité culturelle d'autre part.
La concentration de la propriété des entreprises de communication et la convergence en ours dans les secteurs des industries de la communication conduiraient-elles à un appauvrissement en termes de contenus informationnels et culturels ? Cela fait plus de trente ans que cette question est source de débats au Canada. Dans le cadre de ce projet, nous abordons de façon précise les liens entre les stratégies des entreprises et la production informationnelle et culturelle issue de celles-ci."
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January 20, 2005
Robert Babe
Robert Babe is the =Jean Monty/BCE Chair in Media Studies at the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Western Ontario. From his homepage :
My research and writing have always been at the interface of economics and communication studies. Initially I did research and wrote books on the economics of the cable television, television broadcasting, and telephone/telecommunications industries. Later, I began critiquing economics' understanding of information and communication. My most recent book is "Canadian Communication Thought: Ten Foundational Writers." Currently I am preparing a book manuscript entitled "Cultural Ecology: Communication, Environment & Development." It presents a communication studies understanding of environmental issues, and contrasts that to a neoclassical economics understanding.
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Judy Wajcman
Judy Wajcman is Professor of Sociology in the Demography and Sociology Program. She is also a Centennial Professor in the Gender Institute and Sociology at the London School of Economics, and an Associate Fellow of the Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick Business School. She has previously held posts in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Manchester, Sydney, Vienna, Warwick and Zurich.
Judy Wajcman's research has centred on technological change, employment relations and organisational analysis. She is an expert in feminist theory in these areas and has developed a theoretical framework for the analysis of technology and social change, known as the social shaping approach. She conducted one of the earliest British studies of women workers and gender relations in the home and the workplace, and was a co-founder of the women's studies programme at Cambridge University. She is perhaps best known for her landmark study of the gendered character of technology, Feminism Confronts Technology. The gender relations of senior management in a post-equal opportunities world was the subject of Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management, a book that integrates theoretical work in the areas of organizations, gender and management with an analysis of changing patterns of work, careers, and occupational labour markets.
Professor Wajcman's current research activities include a project on the social theory of gender and technology, a project on domestic technology and the management of time, and a book consolidating her research on the sociology of work and employment. The first has resulted in the recent publication of a book entitled TechnoFeminism. She is also on the editorial board for a new U.S. edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. The second major project, funded by the ARC, explores the relationship between time poverty, work-family balance, and the application of new information and communication technologies. Finally, she is writing a book (with Professor Paul Edwards, University of Warwick) for OUP on Working Life in Capitalist Organizations.
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Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She is currently completing her forthcoming book Denationalization : Economy and Polity in a Global Digital Age (Princeton University Press 2003) based on her five year project on governance and accountability in a global economy. Her books have been translated into twelve languages. She is co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Data Sets, a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and Chair of the newly formed Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Committee of the SSRC.
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Leslie Haddon
Dr Leslie Haddon is Visiting Research Associate at Chimera, University of Essex, Adastral Park, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP5 3RE
He is a Member of the Associate Faculty, Technology and Society, Chalmers University, S-412 96 Gothenburg , Sweden
He is a part-time lecturer at Media@LSE, teaching the course 'Media, Technology and Everyday Life'
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Mark Warschauer
Mark Warschauer is Associate Professor in the Department of Education and the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He is Associate Director for Research of the Ada Byron Research Center for Diversity in Computing & Information Technology and a faculty associate of the university's Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations. He has previously taught and conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Hawaii, Moscow Linguistics University, and Charles University in Prague.
Dr. Warschauer's research focuses on the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools; the impact of ICT on language and literacy practices; and the relationship of ICT to institutional reform, democracy, and social development (see some of his recent papers on these topics.) His most recent book, Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide, was published by MIT Press in January 2003. His previous books have focused on the development of new electronic literacies among culturally and linguistically diverse students and on the role of ICT in second language learning and teaching.
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Marita Moll
Marita Moll is an educational researcher and freelance writer with an extensive background in planning and managing research projects and dissemination of results. Current interests include public education – learning and working conditions, technology and society, citizenship education, social cohesion.
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Andrew Feenberg
Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. He has also taught at for many years in the Philosophy Department at San Diego State University, and at Duke University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Universities of California, San Diego and Irvine, the Sorbonne, the University of Paris-Dauphine, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the University of Tokyo. He is the author of Lukacs, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1981; Oxford University Press, 1986), Critical Theory of Technology (Oxford University Press, 1991), Alternative Modernity (University of California Press, 1995), and Questioning Technology (Routledge, 1999). A second edition of Critical Theory of Technology has appeared with Oxford in 2002 under the title Transforming Technology. Heidegger, Marcuse and Technology: The Catastrophe and Redemption of Enlightenment is in press (Routledge 2004). Translations of several of these books are available. Dr. Feenberg is also co-editor of Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia (Bergin and Garvey Press, 1988), Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (Indiana University Press, 1995), Modernity and Technology (MIT Press, 2003), and Community in the Digital Age (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). His co-authored book on the French May Events of 1968 appeared in 2001 with SUNY Press under the title When Poetry Ruled the Streets. In addition to his work on Critical Theory and philosophy of technology, Dr. Feenberg has published on the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro. He is also recognized as an early innovator in the field of online education, a field he helped to create in 1982. He is currently working on the TextWeaver Project on improving software for online discussion forums under a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education of the US Department of Education.
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Leslie Regan Shade
LRS is an Associate Professor at Concordia University’s Department of Communication Studies. Her research focus since the mid-1990’s has been on the social, policy, and ethical aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs), with particular concerns towards issues of gender, globalization, and political economy. Her book Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet (Peter Lang, 2002), looked at how corporate interests have attempted to shape a ‘women’s net’, in contrast to the use of the internet by diverse women and women’s groups for purposes of activism and social justice. Other book chapters and journal articles have also drawn on a political economic focus, including critiques of media concentration in Canada, trade and culture debates exacerbated by the WTO, the revised discourse of modernization in the G-8 led ‘Dot Force’ debates, communication rights and the role of civil society groups in shaping a human- rights agenda, gender and technological design, the insertion of gender analyses into Canadian ICT policies and programs, and the commodification of children’s online communities. The focus of her current and proposed research deals broadly in the social and policy implications of ICTs. Children, Youth and New Media in the Home (2002 -05) aims to provide an ethnographic perspective on how children and young people are using the new media in their everyday domestic lives, while the Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN, 2003-06) project is an ambitious collaborative partnership amongst academic researchers in Canada, international researchers in community informatics, the three principal federal government departments promoting the “Connecting Canadians” agenda, and community networking practitioners in Canada whose substantive goal is to review the progress of community-based ICT development in the context of Canadian government programs promoting the development and public accessibility of internet services. She is the current President of the Canadian Communication Association and the book review editor for the Canadian Journal of Communication.
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Barbara Crow
Barbara Crow (on the right above) is an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts, York University. She is the master's coordinator of the graduate programme in Communication and Culture. Barbara Crow's areas of research interest are gender, digital technologies, feminist theory, and social movements. The editor of Radical Feminism (NYU Press, 1997) She is currently researching national and international telecommunications policies specifically pertaining to wireless communications and involved in building an international network of scholars, artists and industry partners focusing on locative media in Canada (MDCN), the UK (PLAN) and Finland (m-cult). This year, the second edition of Open Boundaries: A Canadian Women's Studies Reader with Lise Gotell, was published and a number of articles examining the relations of gender, social movements and digital technologies. Two pending research projects include "Mobilizing Feminisms," SSHRC, and the development of a prototype and content for game-playing with mobile devices, "Seeding the Network: Feedback Loops, Game-Play and Cross-Pollination in the Digital Arboretum”. Other research includes "Getting Gender into the ICT Agenda: Canadian Experiences," with Leslie Regan Shade, World Summit on the Information Society, Gender Caucus Research Program), "Le tiers état a lâge numérique: les espaces publics dans les nouveaux reseaux urbains," Fonds de recherché sur la société et la culture, "Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN),"Global Cultural Flows, Information Technology and the Re-Imagining of National Communities, and “Canadian Sexual Assault Law and Contested Boundaries of Consent: Legal and Extra-Legal Dimensions."
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Graham Murdock
Graham Murdock Graham Murdock is reader in the Sociology of Culture at Loughborough University (UK). Before moving to Loughborough, he worked for some years at Leicester University where he was a leading member of the pioneering centre for Mass Communication Research. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California at San Diego, The Free University of Brussels, Bergen University, and Stockholm University. He has written widely on the social and cultural organisation of mass media but is best known for his work on the political economy of communication and on the future of broadcasting. He is a former head of the Political Economy Section of the International Association of Communication Research. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He is currently researching the social impact of new communication technologies and the relations between broadcasting and the Internet.
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Katharine Sarikakis
From Katharine Sarikakis's homepage:
My work focuses on the ways in which political economic dimensions of communications have an impact on the nature and objects of communications policies, nationally and globally. An important strand of my research is the study of the develoment of supranational representational politics and its role in European communications policies and governance. Furthermore, I am interested in the ways in which communications policy is expressed in lived experience, with particular reference to the 'organic' exercise of citizenship and social justice.
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Nina Wakeford
From Nina Wakeford's homepage :
Nina Wakeford is a Reader in Sociology and Social Methodology. For her DPhil at Nuffield College, Oxford, she studied the experiences of mature students using a sociological conception of risk. Before coming to the University of Surrey in September of 1998, she spent three years studying "Women's Experiences of Virtual Communities", funded by an ESRC Post-Doctoral grant. The last two years of this Fellowship she conducted fieldwork in and around Silicon Valley while based at the University of California, Berkeley.
See also Bus Ride to the Future from BBC News.
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Barry Wellman
From Barry Wellman's homepage:
Professor Barry Wellman studies networks: community, communication, computer, and social. His research examines virtual community, the virtual workplace, social support, community, kinship, friendship, and social network theory and methods. Based at the University of Toronto, he directs NetLab, teaches at the Department of Sociology, does research at the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, the Knowledge Media Design Institute, and the Bell University Laboratories' Collaborative Effectiveness Lab, and is a cross-appointed member of the Faculty of Information Studies.
Prof. Wellman is the Chair of the Community and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association. He has been a Fellow of IBM's Institute of Knowledge Management, a consultant with Mitel Networks, a member of Advanced Micro Devices' Global Consumer Advisory Board, a keynoter at conferences ranging from computer science to theology, and a committee member of the Social Science Research Council's (and Ford Foundation's) Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security. He is the (co-)author of more than two hundred articles, co-authored with more than eighty scholars, and is the (co-)editor of three books.
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Vincent Mosco
From Vincent Mosco's homepage at Queen's.
Vincent Mosco is Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society, Queen’s University, Canada. Professor Mosco graduated from Georgetown University (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1970 and received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1975. He is a research affiliate with the Harvard University Program on Information Resources Policy.
Professor Mosco is the author of five books and editor or coeditor of eight books on the media, telecommunications, computers and information technology. His most recent books are The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004), Continental Order? Integrating North America for Cybercapitalism (edited with Dan Schiller and published by Rowman and Littlefield, 2001) and The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal (Sage, 1996) translated into Chinese (two editions- Beijing and Taiwan), Spanish, and Korean. He has also published over one hundred journal articles, book chapters and reports. In 1996 he was named the Davidson Dunton lecturer at Carleton for outstanding research achievement and in 2000 he received the Teaching Excellence Award presented by the Carleton University Students’ Association.
In 2004 Professor Mosco was given the Dallas Smythe Award, the annual prize of the Union for Democratic Communication for outstanding achievement in communication research.
Professor Mosco is a member of the editorial boards of academic journals in the U.S., the U.K., Turkey, Portugal, and Slovenia and has served as a contributor and a member of the editorial advisory board of the International Encyclopedia of Communication. He has written about electronic commerce for a new edition of the Dictionary of American History. Professor Mosco has also been a member of the Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research and President of its Section on Political Economy.
Professor Mosco has held research positions in the U.S. government with the White House Office of Telecommunication Policy, the National Research Council and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment and in Canada with the Federal Department of Communication. He has also served as a consultant to government, business, trade unions, and civic associations in the United States, Canada, South Africa and Malaysia.
Professor Mosco is currently work on a project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council that addresses labour and trade unions in the communications industries of Canada and the United States.
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