Papers in refereed conference proceedings
2000. "Is Technology Neutral?: Space, Time and the Biases of Communication",
pp. 239-241 in Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computers, Freedom
& Privacy (CFP 2000): Challenging the Assumptions. Toronto, April 4-7.
1996. With Garth Graham, "The Rhetoric and the Reality of Canadian Community Networking." Proceedings of INET 96 (The Internet Society). Montreal: June 25-28, 1996. http://www.isoc.org
1996. With Andrew Clement. "What Do We Mean By 'Universal Access'?: Social Perspectives in a Canadian Context." Proceedings of INET '96 (The Internet Society). Montreal: June 25-28, 1996. http://www.isoc.org
1996. "The Digital Woman, or, Gender Equity in a Cold Climate," Virtue and Virtuality: Gender, Law and Cyberspace Conference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Women's Studies Program, April 20-21, 1996. URL: http://web.mit.edu/womens-studies/www/shade.html
1994. "Desperately Seeking Karla: The Case of alt.fan.karla-homolka", Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science, 22nd Annual Conference, May 25-27, 1994, McGill University: 109-126.
Abstracts and/or papers read
Forthcoming:
April 2002. Seminar on Digital Divide
for Canadian Heritage, Hull.
April 2002. "Here Comes the Dot Force: The New Cavalry for Information Equity?", 2001 Bugs: Globalism and Pluralism, GRICIS, Montreal.
May 2002. "The Criminalization of Dissent" for Canadian Anthropology and Sociology Association, Toronto.
2002
March 2002. Participant in Hixon Forum for Responsible Science and Technology, "Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice", Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA, March 9, 2002.
2001
"What Did You Do in the Anti-Globalization Revolution, Grandma?",
October 2001, Association of Internet Researchers
2.0, Minneapolis, MN.
May 29, "Bridging Gaps: Communication Scholarship and the Public Interest", Canadian Communication Association, Univ. Laval
May 19. "What Do You Want the Internet to Be", with Marita Moll. Union for Democratic Communications, Carleton University.
February 1. "The New Technologies and Their Impact on Communications" Government of Canada Communicators' Conference 2001, Ottawa.
January. Panelist on New Media Panel for Finding Focus: Public Broadcasting in a Private Age, Ottawa, (sponsored by the Canadian Media Guild)
2000
December 5, Citizens or Consumers?: Gender, Community and the Social Construction
of the Internet, presentation for ESCR sponsored seminar series, "Opportunities
Online" Community Informatics Research Unit., University of Teeside, UK.
November. An Investigation of Internet Content and On-Line Safety Issues, Digital Divide Panel, American Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco.
October. An Investigation of Internet Content and On-Line Safety Issues, Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Lawrence Kansas.
April 4-7. Moderator for panel at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, Toronto: "Is Technology Neutral? Space, Time, and the Biases of Communication"
"Communications in the Public Interest: Resisting the Market Model of the Information Highway" at Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest, University of Maine, Orono, ME, June 16-18.
"Women @ e-com", Women Work Computerization Conference, Vancouver, B.C., June 8-11, 2000.
March 31, 2000. Women @ E-Com, University of Ottawa, Institute of Women's Studies, Research Colloquium - Research in Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa.
1999
November 1999, With Andrew Clement,"Citizens at the Crossroads: Whose
Information Society?", National Policy Research Conference: Analyzing the
Trends.Ottawa, November 25-26.
October 1999, "Whose Right to Communicate?", Citizens at the Crossroads: Whose Information Society?, University of Western Ontario, October 21-24.
June 1999: "New Media and Sovereignty", Canadian Communication Association, Sherbrooke
May 1999. Digital Knowledge III, Toronto. Talk on "Access to Canada's Health Info-Hiway" and "Women and the KBES"
February 9. Guest lecture, University of Toronto. Victoria College, course on "Communication Technology and Its Cultural Impact: the Printing and the Internet"
March 4. Participant in McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Pan-Am By Design, "Women Online: Building Knowledge Networks by Design"
1998
September 1998. Invited Speaker (New Media and Sovereignty Issues), II International
Conference: The Challenges of the New Millennium, Universidad de Monterrey,
Mexico, 9-12 September.
June 1998. "www.nondigerati.com", prepared for the Founding Colloquium of the Canadian Cultural Research Network, University of Ottawa. http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ccm/ccrn/ccrn_colloq98h.html
May 26, 1998. "Net Effects: Does Access=Equity?", prepared for the Canadian Teacher's Federation National Symposium on Equity, Toronto.
Participation in Canadian Communications Association (CCA) Annual Conference, University of Ottawa, June 3, 1998: Roundtable on Citizenship in the Information Society.
Participation in Policy Issues track of ACM Policy `98 Conference, Washington, D.C.: May 10-12, 1998. URL:http://www.acm.org/usacm/events/policy98
Participation in a "Witty Wednesdays", sponsored by the Canadian Association for Distance Education, January 1998, on the subject of gender and distance education.
1997
Panelist for online conference, "Tenure and Technology", an electronic
forum organized by The NODE, November 24-December 5, 1997. Series called "Navigating
Dangerous Waters: Legal and Professional Issues in the Electronic Academy."
URL:http://node.on.ca/
Panelist at Media & Democracy II, "Universal Service and Public Space", New York City, October 16-19, 1997.
Panel Coordinator - Policy and Access Issues, Women and the Internet Conference, Ottawa, October 20, 1997.
Panelist on Gender and ICT's at UNIFEM AGM, September
20, 1997, Ottawa.
Panelist re Access and Gender, "No Real Change Without Women", at
Global Knowledge 1997, Toronto, June 1997, sponsored by CIDA and the World Bank.
Presentation of "Access to the Internet for Women's Groups Across Canada" at the 6th International IFIP Conference on Women, Work and Computerization, May 24-27, 1997, Bonn, Germany.
Access and Gender talk for The Janus Project: New Learning Technologies for Women, Montreal, March 21-22, 1997. Sponsored by the Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women and the Office of Learning Technologies, Human Resources Development Canada. URL:http://www.nald.ca/cclow.htm
1996-4
June 20-23, 1996.Panelist at Access Panel: Getting Online Conference, Ottawa
April 20-21, 1996. Panel Participant: Virtue and Virtuality: Gender, Law and Cyberspace Conference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Women's Studies Program. http://web.mit.edu/womens-studies/www/sex.html
Panel Participant ("Electronic Ladyland: A Status Report on Gender and the Internet") in Social Impacts of Virtual Communities panel for The Internet: Beyond the Year 2000, The University of Toronto, April 28 to May 1, 1996.
February 28, 1996. "My Modem/Myself", prepared for The Information Highway, Self, and Community: Pitfalls and Possibilities. Centre for Techno-Ethics project on the "Ethical Issues of the Information Highway." St. Paul University, Ottawa.
February 1996. "The Digital Women: Public Policy for Gender Equity" prepared for the "Gender Issues in a Digital World" panel for Digital Knowledge: Canada's Future. Toronto, February 6-7, 1996.
Invited Participant: Doors of Perception 3: Info-Eco, Amsterdam, 6-11 November 1995. "Expert" Workshop Participant: Urban Footprints: informatics and the urban community. http://www.design.inst.nl/DOME
Invited Panelist: "Ethics" Panel, McGill in Cyberspace Conference, Montreal, September 21, 1995.
Organizer: Panel for The Canadian Networking Conference: Net `95, Ottawa, June 1995: "Life After IHAC: Public Interest Groups on the Information Highway Advisory Council's Recommendations".
Panelist, "Electronic Resources", Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference June 3-5, 1995, Montreal.
May 1995. "Being Digital, and Domestically Challenged, Part 2." Discussion paper for Community Access to the Information Highway, Ottawa, May 7-9, 1995.
Invited Panelist: "Perceptions of Reality on the 'Net: Who is charting the information highway?" Community Access to the Information Highway, May 7-9, 1995, Ottawa.
Invited Panelist, `Women on the Information Highway", and workshop presenter CCWEST (Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology) Conference, Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 13, 1995.
April 1995. "Copyright in the Digital Networked Environment", Discussion Paper for Intellectual Property or Public Knowledge: A Roundtable Discussion of Copyright in the Nineties, Concordia University, Montreal, April 7, 1995.
March 1995. "An Access Design for NGOs", with Ian Duncan. A Discussion Paper Prepared for Bridging the Gap: urban access to information technology. A CIAC/Industry Canada Invitational Workshop in conjunction with the Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC) Working Group on Access & Social Impact, March 9-11, 1995, Toronto.
Invited Guest Speaker: "Gender Issues in Networking". Series on Writing and Computers in the Information Age, Centre for the Study and Teaching of Writing, McGill University, March 10, 1995.
Invited Panelist: "Thelma and Louise on the information highway", Ontario Library Association Annual Conference, Toronto, January 15, 1995.
Invited Panelist: "Public Voices, Public Choices: the Public Interest Perspective", Electronic Democracy '94: Understanding and Making Decisions in the Information Age, Ottawa, November 28-29, 1994.
Invited Speaker: "E-Connections", The Canadian Community Networking Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, August 15-17, 1994.
Invited Speaker: "Is Sisterhood Virtual: women on the electronic frontier". Paper delivered to Women in Scholarship in the Information Age Symposium, The Royal Society of Canada, June 12, 1994, Calgary.
Invited Speaker: "Desperately Seeking Karla: the Case of alt.fan.karla-homolka", The Canadian Association for Information Science, 22nd Annual Conference, May 25-27, 1994, McGill University.
Panelist: "Ethical Issues in Electronic Networks: the Case of Usenet's alt.sex hierarchy and the Canadian University Community". "Feminism and Technoculture" Panel, The Northeast Modern Language Association, April 8-9, 1994, Pittsburgh.
1993. "Gender Issues in Computer Networking", Community Networking: the International Free-Net Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, August 17-19, 1993.
Workshops
Winter 1999. Coordinator for Symposium on Women and the Knowledge Based
Economy/Society, sponsored by the Joint Chair in Women's Studies of the University
of Ottawa and Carleton University held at the University of Ottawa, February
19, 1998. URL: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~shade/symp.htm
Co-chair to Universal Access Workshops, held at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto.March 1996. Defining and Maintaining Universal Access to Basic Network Services: Canadian Experiences in an International Context.;March 1997. Developing a Canadian Access Strategy: Universal Access to Essential Network Services; November 1997. Creating the National Access Strategy: Key Steps Towards a National Access Strategy, See URL: http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/ua
Workshop presenter for "Internet and Development" at the Canadian Committee for UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women). Ottawa, September 14, 1996.