Neil Barratt and moi, in The Canadian Journal of Communication 32(2):

Abstract: What is net neutrality? The debate about the shape of the Internet is being held behind closed doors, led by government and industry with little public input. This article examines net neutrality and the stakeholders in this emerging national debate. The authors discuss the legislative and policy implications, while at the same time exploring alternative models for achieving broadly accessible, affordable high-speed Internet access.

Above image is from MGA Entertanment's Bratz Mobile Cell Phone.

Feminizing the Mobile: Gender Scripting of Mobiles in North America, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 21, Issue 2 (2007), Mobile Phone Cultures, edited by Gerard Goggin.

This paper discusses the gendering of the design and marketing of mobile phones, using the concept of the gender script (Rommes, 2002; van Oost, 2003. It first provides a brief overview of recent international scholarship exploring gendered uses and development of mobiles. The next section explicates the gender script and examines some print ads for mobile phones appearing in North American women’s and teen magazines. How can we go beyond gender scripts that essentialize women and their uses of mobiles? The paper concludes with reflections towards this end.

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Inspired by the excellent CAUT conference on Controlling Intellectual Property - The Academic Community and the Future of Knowledge I've posted a pdf of this paper which hasn't been published...

Patenting Life: Commodification, the Patent Regime, and the Public Interest

Abstract
This paper will look at bioinformatics and the various ethical issues raised by the patenting of life forms. Debates over life patents, specifically the 2002 Canadian Supreme Court decision which ruled against patenting the OncoMouse®, highlight how technological discourses on science and technology are inextricably integrated with prevailing economic discourses. The paper will also critique the creation of a patent regime which has privatized public knowledge and resources, and its institutionalization through the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS – the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights–and the tensions inherent when power is vested in the hands of corporations and public goods become transmogrified into private commodities.

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Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet....

Canadian Journal of Communication
Vol. 30(4)

Editorial
Kim Sawchuk 459

Articles

How Connected are Canadians? Inequities in Canadian Households’Internet Access
Catherine A. Middleton & Christine Sorensen 463

Everyday Fandom: Fan Clubs, Blogging, and the Quotidian Rhythms of the Internet
Paul Théberge 485

You can see anything on the Internet, you can do anything on the Internet!: Young Canadians Talk about the Internet
Leslie Regan Shade, Nikki Porter, & Wendy Sanchez 503

Data Mining the Kids: Surveillance and Market Research Strategies in Children’s Online Games
Grace Chung & Sara M. Grimes 527

Negotiating Electronic Surveillance in the Workplace: A Study of Collective Agreements in Canada
Simon Kiss & Vincent Mosco 549

Networks and Layers: Technocultural Encodings of the World Wide Web
Ganaele Langlois 565

The Divergent Anarcho-utopian Discourses of the Open Source Software Movement
Dale A. Bradley 585

Pundits, Ideologues, and Ranters: The British Columbia Election Online
Harold J. Jansen & Royce Koop 613

Civility in Online Discussion: The Case of the Foreign Policy Dialogue
A. Christie Hurrell 633

Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication (Second Edition), edited by Paul Attallah, Carleton University, and Leslie Regan Shade, Concordia University. Thomson Nelson, 2006.

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Getting Gender Into the ICT Agenda: Canadian Experiences

Dr. Barbara Crow, Associate Professor,
Technology Enhanced Learning Chair,
Communication Studies and Women's Studies, York University
4700 Keele Street, 3008 TEL, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
bacrow@yorku.ca

Dr. Leslie Regan Shade, Associate Professor
Communication Studies, Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke St., CJ 4.407, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6
lshade@alcor.concordia.ca

Prepared for World Summit on the Information Society Gender Caucus
Towards Gender Inclusion in the Global Information Society
First Round Research Program 2004

September 30, 2005

A list of some forthcoming, new, and older writings....