Advisory Board

Barbara Crow, York University

Professor Crow is currently working on a number of research projects. These include "Mapping DigitalCities" funded by Hexagram focusing on the relationship between digital technology and multimedia cities with her colleague Professor Michael Longford at Concordia University, a SSHRC funded project "Canadian Sexual Assault Law and Contested Boundaries of Consent: Legal and Extra-Legal Dimensions," with Professor Lise Gotell at the University of Alberta, investigating women's organizations and legal discourses, and most recently, the "Mobile Digital Commons Network" exploring relations of mobile technologies and cultural production. Professor Crow has been a visiting scholar at McGill University and Barnard College and was awarded a Telus Distinguished Scholar award with her colleague Professor Graham Longford. She was president of the Canadian Women's Studies Association/L'association canadienne des etudes sur lesfemmes (2002-2004) and co-manages their website.

Sean Cubitt, University of Melbourne

Sean Cubitt was born in Lincolnshire of Irish parents. He studied at Queens' College Cambriidge and McGill University, Montreal. In the 1980s he worked freelance in art schools, video workshops, journalism and at the Society for Education in Film and television. He spent the 1990s in Liverpool, where he was involved in developing the Foundation for Art and Creative technology (FACT). In 2000, he moved to New Zealand with wife Alison and dog Zebedee, and now holds dual nationality with New Zealand and the UK. From July 2006 he will be Director of the Program in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne.

Fred Fletcher, Professor Emeritus, York University

Dr Fred Fletcher is Professor Emeritus, Communication Studies and Political Science and holds the honorific title of University Professor at York University. He was founding Director of the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture (a partnership of York University and Ryerson University), 1998-2006. He is Past Chair of the Canadian Media Research Consortium, co-investigator on the Canadian Internet Project and co-author of Canada Online! A comparative analysis of Internet users and non-sers in Canada and the World (2005). He has also published several recent studies of the effects of the Internet on the news media. Hi major publications have been on the media and politics and communication and democracy (especially electoral communication). His current work deals with media credibility, the future of news, and an analysis of the second CIP national survey of Internet use in Canada, conducted in 2007. In 2007, he was Visiting Professor at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research in Melbourne.

Michael Geist, University of Ottawa

Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School.

Dr. Geist has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law and is a columnist on technology law issues that regularly appears in the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and BBC. He is the creator and consulting editor of BNA's Internet Law News, a daily Internet law news service, editor of the monthly newsletters, Internet and E-commerce Law in Canada and the Canadian Privacy Law Review (Butterworths), the founder of the Ontario Research Network for E-commerce, on the advisory boards of several leading Internet law publications including Electronic Commerce & Law Report (BNA), the Journal of Internet Law (Aspen) and Internet Law and Business (Computer Law Reporter). He is the author of the textbook Internet Law in Canada (Captus Press) which is now in its third edition, and the editor of In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, published in 2005 by Irwin Law.

Philip N. Howard, University of Washington

Philip N. Howard (BA Toronto, MSc London School of Economics, PhD Northwestern) is an assistant professor in the Communication Department at the University of Washington. His book New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) is about the role of information technology in campaign strategy and political culture. He has published a co-edited collection entitled Society Online: The Internet In Context (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003) as well as articles in New Media & Society, the American Behavioral Scientist, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Howard has been a Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington, D.C., and the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London.

Steve Jones, University of Illinois Chicago

Steve Jones has been Internetworking since 1979 when he was using and co-authoring educational materials on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (His first computer experience was with a PDP 8/e.) He received his Ph.D. in Communication from the Institute of Communications Research there in 1987, and is author of numerous books, including Society Online, Doing Internet Research, CyberSociety, Virtual Culture, and Pop Music and the Press. He is editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of New Media and co-founder and co-editor of New Media & Society. A social historian of communication technology, his books have earned him critical acclaim and interviews for stories in Time, the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek and numerous other newspapers and magazines. He has also been interviewed on radio and TV, and has been a guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and "Sounds Like Science." Jones serves as Senior Research Fellow for the Pew Internet & American Life Project and is co-founder of the Association of Internet Researchers, serving as its president from 1999 to 2003.

Kady O'Malley covers federal politics for Macleans.ca, and blogs regularly about life on the Hill at "Inside the Queensway". She has appeared on CBC Newsworld, as well as The National, and is a frequent guest on CBC Radio's weekly "Ottawa Report". An unabashed infophile, she spends a frightening large portion of her day monitoring the political blogosphere, both in Canada and the United States, and is facinated by the complex and fractious relationship between old and new media.

Leslie Shade, Concordia University

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Rob Shields, University of Alberta

Rob Shields is Henry Marshall Tory Chair and a Professor in the Departments of Sociology and of Art and Design, University of Alberta.