Terra Incognita: 29th International Conferences of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Montreal, 25-28 September 2007.

Thursday, Plenary 2

The Next Generation Dragon — Children’s Online Privacy
This panel challenges the assumption that young people don’t care about their online privacy. The panelists will discuss what we know about kids’ privacy attitudes and behaviours, and explore the ways in which kids actively seek to negotiate their own privacy in networked spaces.

Chair

Mr. Francesco Pizzetti
President, Italian Authority for Data Protection (Italy)

Speakers

Dr. Jacquelyn Burkell
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, University of Western Ontario (Canada)

Dr. Leslie Regan Shade
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University (Canada)

Dr. Valerie Steeves
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa (Canada)

Nell Freudenberger's The Dissident, re Chinese performance artists in Beijing's East Village to cool pools in LA housing shrink-husbands and soccer-moms and the usual mixed up spoiled kids, and a visiting Chinese dissident artist. What is real, what is fake, what is authentic, what is plagiarism, what is art/love/beauty?

NARAL Pro-Choice America Wins Fight over Corporate Censorship, generates over 20,000 messages in less than two hours calling on Verizon to reverse its text-messaging policy.

September 28, 2007 op-ed in LA Times.

Adam Liptak, NY Times. Sept 28 2007, Verizon reverses decision, and Adam Liptak, Sept 27 2007, Verizons Blocks Messages...

The COMS 225 blog is here!

COMS 225
MEDIA INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
DEPT. OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES
PROFESSOR LESLIE REGAN SHADE
FALL 2007
Tuesdays, 1:15-4
CJ 4.320
Office: Loyola, CJ 4.407
Email: lshade@alcor.concordia.ca
Tel: 848-2424 x2550
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 12-1; and by appointment

COURSE OBJECTIVES
Calendar description: This course introduces students to the analysis of the institutional, political, and economic forces that have shaped the development of media during the twentieth century. Attention is given to the ownership structures, corporate practices, and state policy interventions affecting media institutions in both the public and private sectors. A particular focus is given to the interrelations between Cultural, Multicultural, and Communication Policy interventions.

Specific objectives of this course will be to:

Introduce students to critical (e.g., political economic and policy) perspectives within communication studies, both historical and theoretical

Encourage students to ask basic questions about the multi-faceted nature of media institutions and policies, including a range of communication technologies and specific policy initiatives and issues

Allow students to develop a critical perspective and apply this through the development of research and critical writing skills

COMS 354 - YOUTH AND MEDIA
FALL 2007
PROFESSOR LESLIE REGAN SHADE
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, DEPT. OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES
CJ- 4.240
Wednesdays, 1:15-4pm

Office: Loyola, CJ 4.407
Email: lshade@alcor.concordia.ca
Tel: 848-2424 x2550
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 12-1; and by appointment
COMS 354 Blogsite

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course explores the forms of communication that have developed between media and youth, including children and adolescents. Topical areas include future policies and planning in the light of developmental needs, ethical parameters, and experiments in creative empowerment (from Undergraduate Calendar 2007-08).

This course will also acquaint students with a vast range of communication studies scholarship on youth and media (historical and current), encompassing a range of theories and methodologies. Policy issues weave themselves throughout the course, with one of the central themes media commercialization and its impact on youth. Contrasted to media corporatization are explorations about how youth are actively and avidly creating their own media for cultural and social mobilization. Various communication technologies will be looked at, including television, film, and information and communication technologies (internet spaces, mobile phones).