Powell, Alison

Powell, Alison (2016) Five Minutes with Alison Powell on what data means, how it is produced and what influence it has for decision-makers. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (22 Feb 2016) Blog entry

Powell, Alison (2016) Hacking in the public interest: authority, legitimacy, means and ends New Media and Society, 18 (4). 600-616. ISSN 1461-4448

Powell, Alison B. (2015) Network exceptionalism: online action, discourse and the opposition to SOPA and ACTA Information, Communication & Society, 19 (2). 249-263. ISSN 1369-118X

Powell, Alison (2013) Argument-by-technology: how technical activism contributes to internet governance In: Brown, Ian, (ed.) Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 198-220. ISBN 9781849805025

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, 117-132. 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, 202-217. ISBN 9781926836041

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

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). 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

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

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). 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. Digital futures. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 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 and Internet, 2 (2). ISSN 1944-2866

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

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

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, 155-170. ISBN 9780754671497

Powell, Alison (2008) WiFi publics: producing community and technology Information, Communication and Society, 11 (8). 1068-1088. ISSN 1468-4462

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

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 (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 (2005) Book review: community in the digital age: philosophy and practice New Media and Society, 7 (4). 589-591. ISSN 1461-4448

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. Digital formations (20). Peter Lang, New York, USA, 135-148. ISBN 9780820468419