"Powell, Alison"

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

Powell, Alison B. (2015) Open culture and innovation: integrating knowledge across boundaries. Media, Culture and Society, 37 (3). pp. 376-393. ISSN 0163-4437

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

Couldry, Nick and Powell, Alison (2014) Big data from the bottom up. Big Data & Society, 1 (2). ISSN 2053-9517

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

Techatassanasoontorn, Angsana, 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 (2011) Metaphors, models and communicative spaces: designing local wireless infrastructure. Canadian Journal of Communication, 36 (1). ISSN 1499-6642

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

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

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

Book Section

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, pp. 198-220. ISBN 9781849805025

Powell, Alison and Shade, Leslie Regan (2012) Community and municipal WiFi initiatives in Canada: evolutions in community participation. In: Clement, Andrew, 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, Gurstein, Michael and Longford, Graham, (eds.) Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics. Athabasca University Press, Edmonton, Canada, pp. 202-217. ISBN 9781926836041

Peddle, Katrina, Powell, Alison and Shade, Leslie Regan (2012) "The researcher is a girl": tales of bringing feminist labour perspectives into community informatics. In: Clement, Andrew, 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 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) Wi-Fi, resistance, and making infrastructure visible. In: Crow, Barbara, 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, pp. 172-186. ISBN 9780802098931

Dechief, Diane, Longford, Graham, 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

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

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, pp. 135-148. ISBN 9780820468419

Monograph

Forlano, Laura, Powell, Alison, Shaffer, Gwen and Lennett, Benjamin (2011) From the digital divide to digital excellence: global best practices for municipal and community wireless networks. Lennett, Benjamin (ed.) New America Foundation, Washington D.C, USA.

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

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

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Powell, Alison (2016) Algorithms, accountability, and political emotion: on the cultural assumptions underpinning sentiment analysis. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (20 Jul 2016) Blog Entry.

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 (2013) Book review: Regulating code: good governance and better regulation in the information age. LSE Review of Books (12 Aug 2013) Blog.

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