Powell, Alison

Peddle, Katrina and Powell, Alison and Shade, Leslie Regan (2012) "The researcher is a girl": tales of bringing feminist labour perspectives into community informatics. In: Clement, Andrew and Gurstein, Michael and Longford, Graham, (eds.) Connecting Canadians: investigations in community informatics. Athabasca University Press, Edmonton, Canada, pp. 117-132. ISBN 9781926836041

Powell, Alison and Shade, Leslie Regan (2012) Community and municipal WiFi initiatives in Canada: evolutions in community participation. In: Clement, Andrew and Gurstein, Michael and Longford, Graham, (eds.) Connecting Canadians: investigations in community informatics. Athabasca University Press, Edmonton, Canada, pp. 183-201. ISBN 9781926836041

Powell, Alison (2012) WiFi publics: defining community and technology at Montreal’s Île Sans Fil. In: Clement, Andrew and Gurstein, Michael and Longford, Graham, (eds.) Connecting Canadians: investigations in community informatics. Athabasca University Press, Edmonton, Canada, pp. 202-217. ISBN 9781926836041

Powell, Alison (2012) Democratizing production through open source knowledge: from open software to open hardware. Media, Culture & Society, 34 (6). pp. 691-708. ISSN 0163-4437

Techatassanasoontorn, Angsana and Tapia, Andrea and Powell, Alison (2011) Learning processes in municipal broadband projects: an absorptive capacity perspective. Telecommunications policy, 34 (10). pp. 572-595. ISSN 0308-5961

Powell, Alison and Cooper, Alissa (2011) Net neutrality discourses: comparing advocacy and regulatory arguments in the United States and the United Kingdom. The information society, 27 (5). pp. 311-325. ISSN 0197-2243

Powell, Alison (2011) Metaphors, models and communicative spaces: designing local wireless infrastructure. Canadian journal of communication, 36 (1). ISSN 1499-6642

Powell, Alison and Dailey, Dharma (2010) Towards a taxonomy for public interest communications research. In: Napoli, Phil and Aslama, Minna, (eds.) Communications research in action: scholar-activist collaborations for a democratic public sphere. Fordham University Press, New York, USA, pp. 45-70. ISBN 9780823233472

Powell, Alison (2010) Method, methodology and new media: Grant Kien, Global technography: ethnography in the age of mobility; Nalita James and Hugh Busher, Online interviewing [Review article]. New media and society, 12 (6). pp. 1025-1031. ISSN 1461-7315

Powell, Alison (2010) Wi-Fi, resistance, and making infrastructure visible. In: Crow, Barbara and Longford, Michael and Sawchuk, Kimberly, (eds.) The wireless spectrum: the politics, practices and poetics of mobile media. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 172-186. ISBN 9780802098931

Powell, Alison and Michael, Hills and Victoria, Nash (2010) Child protection and free speech: mapping the territory. Discussion Forum Paper, 17. Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Dharma, Dailey and Amelia, Bryne and Powell, Alison and Joe, Karaganis and Jaewon, Chung (2010) Broadband adoption in low-income communities. Social Science Research Council, New York, USA

Powell, Alison and Bryne, Amelia and Dailey, Dharma (2010) The essential internet: digital inclusion insights from low-income American communities. Policy & internet, 2 (2). ISSN 1944-2866

Tapia, Andrea Hoplight and Ortiz, Julio Angel and Powell, Alison (2009) Reforming policy to promote local broadband networks. Journal of communication inquiry, 33 (4). pp. 354-375. ISSN 0196-8599

Powell, Alison and Forlano, Laura (2009) Community wireless networking projects worldwide. New America Foundation, Washington, USA

Powell, Alison and Dailey, Dharma and Bryne, Amelia (2009) The social impact of communications infrastructure: what do we need to know? The Ethos Group, Champaign-Urbana, USA

Powell, Alison (2008) WiFi publics: producing community and technology. Information, communication & society, 11 (8). pp. 1068-1088. ISSN 1468-4462

Dechief, Diane and Longford, Graham and Powell, Alison and Werbin, Kenneth C. (2008) Enabling communities in the networked city: ICTs and civic participation among immigrants and youth in urban Canada. In: Aurigi, Alessandro and De Cindio, Fiorello, (eds.) Augmented urban spaces: articulating the physical and electronic city. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK, pp. 155-170. ISBN 9780754671497

Peddle, Katrina and Powell, Alison and Shade, Leslie Regan (2008) Bringing feminist perspectives into community informatics. Atlantis: a women's studies journal, 32 (2). ISSN 0702-7818

Powell, Alison (2008) Une innovation communautaire en milieu urbain: le cas d'Île Sans Fil. In: Proulx, Serge and Couture, Stéphane and Rueff, Julien, (eds.) L'action communautaire à l'ère du numérique. Presses de l'Université du Québec, Québec, Canada, pp. 139-160. ISBN 9782760515369

Powell, Alison (2007) What can I say?: (or, "Île Sans Fil are thieves and liars"*): stories from the heart of participatory research. Wi: journal of mobile media, ISSN 1918-2104

Powell, Alison (2007) An ecology of public internet access: exploring contextual internet access in an urban community. The Electronic journal of communicatrion, 17 (1-2). ISSN 1183-5656

Powell, Alison (2006) "Last mile" or local innovation?: Canadian perspectives on community wireless networking as civic participation. CRACIN working papers, 18. Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking, Toronto, Canada

Powell, Alison and Wong, Matt and Clement, Andrew (2006) Marking, locating, and designing for public and private wireless internet spaces. CRACIN working papers, 16. Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking, Toronto, Canada

Powell, Alison and Shade, Leslie Regan (2006) Going Wi-Fi in Canada: municipal and community initiatives. Government information quarterly, 23 (3-4). pp. 381-403. ISSN 0740-624X

Powell, Alison (2006) Île Sans Fil as a digital formation. Laboratoire de Communication Médiatisée par Ordinateur, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Powell, Alison (2005) Book review: community in the digital age: philosophy and practice. New media & society, 7 (4). pp. 589-591. ISSN 1461-4448

Powell, Alison (2005) Book review: the network society. Resource Centre for Cyberculture Studies

Powell, Alison (2005) E-Life and real life: on- and off-line social life in an Internet café. In: Consalvo, Mia and Allen, Matthew, (eds.) Internet research annual: selected papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2003, volume 2. Peter Lang, New York, USA, pp. 135-148. ISBN 9780820468419