This summer, the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives has published a new volume on Canadian digital policy issues, titled The Internet Tree: The State of Telecom Policy in Canada 3.0 edited by Martia Moll and Leslie Regan Shade. Fenwick McKelvey contributed a chapter titled, Making Traffic Public: A Proposal for a Public Study of Internet Usage in Canada. The CCPA site has more details about the book and ordering information.
Fenwick McKelvey will be appearing on TVO's The Agenda on April as part of its "Your Agenda: The "New" Politics" panel. He will be offering his insights on the relationship between youth and new technology. For more details about the event, visit the episode's page on TVO. The show airs at 8pm and streams on the web.
Greg Elmer, IRL director recently spoke to Canada's Hansardians at their annual meeting in Charlottetown, PEI concerning the role that social media have come to play in Canadian politics. Elmer discussed the challenges faced by official record keepers in light of the decentralization and digitization of parliamentary business.
We're very happy to report that Dr. Ken Werbin, Ryerson post-doc and Associate Director, Infoscape Research Lab has been awarded a two-year SSHRC post-doc effective May 2009. The lab also successfully acquired funds from SSHRC's standard grant and research/creation funding programs. For more information please contact Ken Werbin or Greg Elmer.
Recently, the Conservative Party of Canada removed copies of all its election videos on YouTube, its website, and on Flickr. We have received a number of inquiries from researchers and reporters interested in studying the election. Many have asked us for copies or samples of the deleted content. In the post below, we have found copies of the deleted videos whenever possible. Please click here to see the copies.
