Figure/Ground Communication’s first interview of 2012 is with Dr. Leslie Shade – Associate Professor at Concordia University’s Department of Communication Studies. Professor Shade’s research and teaching focuses on social, policy, and ethical aspects of ICTs, political economy of the media, feminism/gender issues and media in Canada. Professor Shade has been active in conducting research on the social and policy aspects of the Internet since the mid-1990s, and her research contributions straddle the line between academic and non-academic audiences, including policymakers and non-profit groups. She’s currently engaged in several research projects – most notably *Young Canadians, Participatory Digital Culture and Policy Literacy*, funded by SSHRC (2010-13) and Mapping Media Justice Policy Activism in the United States & Canada, funded by Concordia’s General Research Fund. Her latest writings include work under review on social media and activism (with Normand Landry), privacy discourses in Canada (with Tamara Shepherd), and young people and mobile phone regulation/perceptions (with Tamara Shepherd).
URL: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/leslie-shade/<http://figureground.ca/interviews/leslie-shade/
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