R Mcmahon
Biographic Data
| ID | 21363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Mcmahon |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmahon |
| SIGNATURE | MCMAHON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2555-8735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Too much of a good thing? Emergent online harms during early adoption of low-earth orbital satellite systems in remote northern communities
The rapid deployment and adoption of Low-Earth Orbital (LEO) satellite systems present new opportunities – and challenges – for rural/remote communities, which have until recently lacked access to high-speed, reliable Internet services. Such impacts are pronounced in small-population Indigenous communities seeking to balance cultural and language resurgence while navigating engagement with settler states and extractivist economies. However, there…
Extending Extractivism: Analysing Canadian Telecommunication Corporations’ Reconciliation Rhetoric
Similar to pipelines used in oil and gas development, telecommunications networks of cable, satellite, fibre optic and wireless infrastructure extend deep into Indigenous territories as a form of “extractivism” (Greer, 2019). These developments raise barriers to substantive reconciliation between settler states, corporations and Indigenous peoples. Yet despite important analyses of corporate policy discourses regarding how natural resource extrac…
Assessing the impacts of low-earth orbital satellite systems in remote indigenous communities: Social and economic outcomes of use in northern Canada
Despite significant efforts to enhance digital connectivity in Canada's Far North, connectivity issues persist, particularly in small rural/remote communities. The recent emergence of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites may present one solution due to their lower latency, higher bandwidth, and potentially reduced costs when compared to traditional geostationary satellites. However, available primary data on user experiences with LEO satellite servic…
Iinaaka Siinakupii Tsiniikii (Little video storyteller): Co-designing digital literacy with Piikani First Nation
Tensions persist in co-designing appropriate forms of digital literacy with Indigenous peoples, particularly in contexts of settler colonialism. Given the historically extractive nature of many institutional research relations with Indigenous peoples, emphasis should be placed on community-led approaches to learn how people are adapting and adopting digital technologies. Through concepts like Niitooii (the same that is real; paralleling), Indigen…
Expanding the Boundaries of Digital Inclusion: Perspectives From Network Peripheries and Non‐Adopters
In this thematic issue, we present research from authors who seek to contest, challenge, and reimagine what digital inclusion is and what it might be. Authors present work from understudied vantage points and “hard to reach” terrains, such as communities that remain geographically, technically, socially, economically, and metaphorically “disconnected”—sometimes by choice. Through their attention to the role of intangible factors like relationalit…
Indigenous Community Networking in Hawai’i: The Pu‘uhonua o Waimānalo Community Network
Shaping digital inclusion policy and practice to meet community-defined goals requires more than access to digital devices and connectivity; it must also enable their effective design and use in situated local settings. For the Nation of Hawai’i, a Kānaka Maoli (Hawai’ian) sovereignty organization with a land base in Pu‘uhonua o Waimānalo on the island of Oahu, these activities are closely associated with broader goals of Nation-building and sove…
Codesigning community networking literacies with rural/remote Northern Indigenous communities in Northwest Territories, Canada
Digital literacy research and practice typically presume certain conditions, such as an urban orientation and adequate, affordable access to connectivity and devices. But these conditions are not universal; for example, people in small, rural/remote Indigenous communities may seek to balance connectivity challenges and digital innovations with land-based living specific to place and community. Drawing on efforts to broaden critical digital litera…
Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions
Remote and Indigenous Broadband: A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Initiatives and Indigenous Engagement
This article compares funding and other broadband policies for rural and Indigenous regions in Canada and in the United States. It also includes examples of Indigenous engagement in the policy and regulatory processes in both countries. This research brings to light instances of policy diffusion between Canada and the United States, and demonstrates how Indigenous groups can contribute to more inclusive forms of telecommunications policy developm…
Investigating concentrated exclusion in telecommunications development: Engaging rural voices from Northern Canada
Co-developing digital inclusion policy and programming with Indigenous partners: Interventions from Canada
Diverse rural Indigenous communities in Canada, like those in many regions of the world, are facing a variety of challenges and opportunities associated with the development, deployment, and adoption of rapidly emerging digital technologies. These include supply-side challenges (such as availability and cost) and demand-side challenges (such as appropriate digital literacy programmes). This article discusses two examples of digital inclusion co-d…
Shaping “Digital Futures” in Alberta: Community Engagement for Rural Broadband Development
Background Despite rich literature on rural and remote broadband and community networking initiatives in Canada, limited research is available on the sequencing, mechanisms, and processes of community engagement for this purpose. Analysis The authors use a case study of the Digital Futures initiative in Alberta, Canada—a biannual symposium that engages a range of public, private, and community stakeholders to discuss rural broadband—to illustrate…
Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and Caribbean
This research brings together digital inequality scholars from across the Americas and Caribbean to examine efforts to tackle digital inequality in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. As the case studies show, governmental policy has an important role to play in reducing digital disparities, particularly for potential users in rural or remote areas, as well as populations with great economic dispari…
Effects of muscle strength training in postmenopausal women with metabolic syndrome. Systematic review
During menopause, the risk of developing metabolic syndrome increases exponentially because of hormonal changes and old age. The aim is to perform a systematic review of randomized clinical trials to the effects of muscle strength training on the different parameters of the metabolic syndrome in postmenopausal women. A systematic review of the literature was performed in Pubmed, ScienDirect and SportDiscus using the words: Resistance training and…
Reclaiming Geospatial Data and GIS Design for Indigenous-led Telecommunications Policy Advocacy: A Process Discussion of Mapping Broadband Availability in Remote and Northern Regions of Canada
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial data are important advocacy tools adopted by a range of users, including telecommunications policy advocates. However, without the means to actively deconstruct and reshape such platforms, reclaim the geospatial data they utilize, and generate the visualizations they produce, the increasing adoption of these resources threatens to disempower some community-based user groups. In this article, we …
Journalism in Crisis: Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada
Digital Data Management as Indigenous Resurgence in Kahnawà: Ke
Indigenous peoples are addressing the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism through a variety of expressions of community resurgence. Among these initiatives are those leveraging digital technologies. In the emergent network society, digital infrastructures, and information and communication technologies are powerful tools that can support self-government. In this context, we document the development of digital data management in the Mohawk comm…
Making Information Technologies Work at the End of the Road
Remote and rural areas face many challenges, including the provision of telecommunications services. Regardless of universal service policies or other political promises, rural communities can be deemed unprofitable by service providers while government assistance is managed by faraway regulators who lack understanding of the affected communities and citizens. The authors assess these challenges in the context of the First Nations of Canada, via …
Indigenous Regulatory Advocacy in Canada's Far North: Mobilizing the First Mile Connectivity Consortium
Marginalized groups such as Indigenous communities and residents of remote and rural areas face daunting challenges as they attempt to influence regulatory decisionmaking. Can these under-resourced groups hope to have their voices heard in regulatory proceedings, in the face of well-funded corporate interests? Applying a participatory research method to regulatory hearings regarding telecommunications services in Canada's far north, the authors a…
Digital Divides and the 'First Mile': Framing First Nations Broadband Development in Canada
Across Canada, rural and remote First Nations face a significant 'digital divide'. As self-determining autonomous nations in Canada, these communities are building broadband systems to deliver public services to their members and residents. To address this challenge, First Nations are working towards a variety of innovative, locally driven broadband development initiatives. This paper contributes a theoretical discussion that frames our understan…
The Institutional Development of Indigenous Broadband Infrastructure in Canada and the United States: Two Paths to “Digital Self-Determination”
For years, indigenous groups in Canada and the United States have argued for public policies to support the coordinated development of community-driven broadband infrastructure. Despite different national contexts and opportunities for policy implementation, case studies from Canada and the United States reflect similarities in the strategic approaches of two indigenous groups to argue for increased “digital self-determination.” However, the oppo…
News media encoding of racial reconciliation: Developing a peace journalism model for the analysis of ‘cold’ conflict
Peace journalism has been developing as a field since the 1970s. However, confusion remains about its central theoretical problematics, its core methodologies and its political project. In this article, we aim to contribute to the development of peace journalism in two ways. Theoretically, we develop peace journalism theory to support analyses of ‘cold’ conflicts by incorporating insights drawn from critical race theory. Methodologically, we prop…
News media encoding of racial reconciliation: Developing a peace journalism model for the analysis of ‘cold’ conflict
Peace journalism has been developing as a field since the 1970s. However, confusion remains about its central theoretical problematics, its core methodologies and its political project. In this article, we aim to contribute to the development of peace journalism in two ways. Theoretically, we develop peace journalism theory to support analyses of ‘cold’ conflicts by incorporating insights drawn from critical race theory. Methodologically, we prop…
Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and Caribbean
This research brings together digital inequality scholars from across the Americas and Caribbean to examine efforts to tackle digital inequality in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. As the case studies show, governmental policy has an important role to play in reducing digital disparities, particularly for potential users in rural or remote areas, as well as populations with great economic dispari…
Journalism in Crisis: Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada
Investigating concentrated exclusion in telecommunications development: Engaging rural voices from Northern Canada
Remote and Indigenous Broadband: A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Initiatives and Indigenous Engagement
This article compares funding and other broadband policies for rural and Indigenous regions in Canada and in the United States. It also includes examples of Indigenous engagement in the policy and regulatory processes in both countries. This research brings to light instances of policy diffusion between Canada and the United States, and demonstrates how Indigenous groups can contribute to more inclusive forms of telecommunications policy developm…
Indigenous Community Networking in Hawai’i: The Pu‘uhonua o Waimānalo Community Network
Shaping digital inclusion policy and practice to meet community-defined goals requires more than access to digital devices and connectivity; it must also enable their effective design and use in situated local settings. For the Nation of Hawai’i, a Kānaka Maoli (Hawai’ian) sovereignty organization with a land base in Pu‘uhonua o Waimānalo on the island of Oahu, these activities are closely associated with broader goals of Nation-building and sove…
Codesigning community networking literacies with rural/remote Northern Indigenous communities in Northwest Territories, Canada
Digital literacy research and practice typically presume certain conditions, such as an urban orientation and adequate, affordable access to connectivity and devices. But these conditions are not universal; for example, people in small, rural/remote Indigenous communities may seek to balance connectivity challenges and digital innovations with land-based living specific to place and community. Drawing on efforts to broaden critical digital litera…
Making Information Technologies Work at the End of the Road
Remote and rural areas face many challenges, including the provision of telecommunications services. Regardless of universal service policies or other political promises, rural communities can be deemed unprofitable by service providers while government assistance is managed by faraway regulators who lack understanding of the affected communities and citizens. The authors assess these challenges in the context of the First Nations of Canada, via …
Indigenous Regulatory Advocacy in Canada's Far North: Mobilizing the First Mile Connectivity Consortium
Marginalized groups such as Indigenous communities and residents of remote and rural areas face daunting challenges as they attempt to influence regulatory decisionmaking. Can these under-resourced groups hope to have their voices heard in regulatory proceedings, in the face of well-funded corporate interests? Applying a participatory research method to regulatory hearings regarding telecommunications services in Canada's far north, the authors a…
Digital Divides and the 'First Mile': Framing First Nations Broadband Development in Canada
Across Canada, rural and remote First Nations face a significant 'digital divide'. As self-determining autonomous nations in Canada, these communities are building broadband systems to deliver public services to their members and residents. To address this challenge, First Nations are working towards a variety of innovative, locally driven broadband development initiatives. This paper contributes a theoretical discussion that frames our understan…
The Institutional Development of Indigenous Broadband Infrastructure in Canada and the United States: Two Paths to “Digital Self-Determination”
For years, indigenous groups in Canada and the United States have argued for public policies to support the coordinated development of community-driven broadband infrastructure. Despite different national contexts and opportunities for policy implementation, case studies from Canada and the United States reflect similarities in the strategic approaches of two indigenous groups to argue for increased “digital self-determination.” However, the oppo…
News media encoding of racial reconciliation: Developing a peace journalism model for the analysis of ‘cold’ conflict
Peace journalism has been developing as a field since the 1970s. However, confusion remains about its central theoretical problematics, its core methodologies and its political project. In this article, we aim to contribute to the development of peace journalism in two ways. Theoretically, we develop peace journalism theory to support analyses of ‘cold’ conflicts by incorporating insights drawn from critical race theory. Methodologically, we prop…
Making Information Technologies Work at the End of the Road
Remote and rural areas face many challenges, including the provision of telecommunications services. Regardless of universal service policies or other political promises, rural communities can be deemed unprofitable by service providers while government assistance is managed by faraway regulators who lack understanding of the affected communities and citizens. The authors assess these challenges in the context of the First Nations of Canada, via …
Indigenous Regulatory Advocacy in Canada's Far North: Mobilizing the First Mile Connectivity Consortium
Marginalized groups such as Indigenous communities and residents of remote and rural areas face daunting challenges as they attempt to influence regulatory decisionmaking. Can these under-resourced groups hope to have their voices heard in regulatory proceedings, in the face of well-funded corporate interests? Applying a participatory research method to regulatory hearings regarding telecommunications services in Canada's far north, the authors a…
Digital Data Management as Indigenous Resurgence in Kahnawà: Ke
Indigenous peoples are addressing the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism through a variety of expressions of community resurgence. Among these initiatives are those leveraging digital technologies. In the emergent network society, digital infrastructures, and information and communication technologies are powerful tools that can support self-government. In this context, we document the development of digital data management in the Mohawk comm…
Reclaiming Geospatial Data and GIS Design for Indigenous-led Telecommunications Policy Advocacy: A Process Discussion of Mapping Broadband Availability in Remote and Northern Regions of Canada
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial data are important advocacy tools adopted by a range of users, including telecommunications policy advocates. However, without the means to actively deconstruct and reshape such platforms, reclaim the geospatial data they utilize, and generate the visualizations they produce, the increasing adoption of these resources threatens to disempower some community-based user groups. In this article, we …
Journalism in Crisis: Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada
Effects of muscle strength training in postmenopausal women with metabolic syndrome. Systematic review
During menopause, the risk of developing metabolic syndrome increases exponentially because of hormonal changes and old age. The aim is to perform a systematic review of randomized clinical trials to the effects of muscle strength training on the different parameters of the metabolic syndrome in postmenopausal women. A systematic review of the literature was performed in Pubmed, ScienDirect and SportDiscus using the words: Resistance training and…
Co-developing digital inclusion policy and programming with Indigenous partners: Interventions from Canada
Diverse rural Indigenous communities in Canada, like those in many regions of the world, are facing a variety of challenges and opportunities associated with the development, deployment, and adoption of rapidly emerging digital technologies. These include supply-side challenges (such as availability and cost) and demand-side challenges (such as appropriate digital literacy programmes). This article discusses two examples of digital inclusion co-d…
Shaping “Digital Futures” in Alberta: Community Engagement for Rural Broadband Development
Background Despite rich literature on rural and remote broadband and community networking initiatives in Canada, limited research is available on the sequencing, mechanisms, and processes of community engagement for this purpose. Analysis The authors use a case study of the Digital Futures initiative in Alberta, Canada—a biannual symposium that engages a range of public, private, and community stakeholders to discuss rural broadband—to illustrate…
Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and Caribbean
This research brings together digital inequality scholars from across the Americas and Caribbean to examine efforts to tackle digital inequality in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. As the case studies show, governmental policy has an important role to play in reducing digital disparities, particularly for potential users in rural or remote areas, as well as populations with great economic dispari…
Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions
Remote and Indigenous Broadband: A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Initiatives and Indigenous Engagement
This article compares funding and other broadband policies for rural and Indigenous regions in Canada and in the United States. It also includes examples of Indigenous engagement in the policy and regulatory processes in both countries. This research brings to light instances of policy diffusion between Canada and the United States, and demonstrates how Indigenous groups can contribute to more inclusive forms of telecommunications policy developm…
Investigating concentrated exclusion in telecommunications development: Engaging rural voices from Northern Canada
Expanding the Boundaries of Digital Inclusion: Perspectives From Network Peripheries and Non‐Adopters
In this thematic issue, we present research from authors who seek to contest, challenge, and reimagine what digital inclusion is and what it might be. Authors present work from understudied vantage points and “hard to reach” terrains, such as communities that remain geographically, technically, socially, economically, and metaphorically “disconnected”—sometimes by choice. Through their attention to the role of intangible factors like relationalit…
Indigenous Community Networking in Hawai’i: The Pu‘uhonua o Waimānalo Community Network
Shaping digital inclusion policy and practice to meet community-defined goals requires more than access to digital devices and connectivity; it must also enable their effective design and use in situated local settings. For the Nation of Hawai’i, a Kānaka Maoli (Hawai’ian) sovereignty organization with a land base in Pu‘uhonua o Waimānalo on the island of Oahu, these activities are closely associated with broader goals of Nation-building and sove…
Codesigning community networking literacies with rural/remote Northern Indigenous communities in Northwest Territories, Canada
Digital literacy research and practice typically presume certain conditions, such as an urban orientation and adequate, affordable access to connectivity and devices. But these conditions are not universal; for example, people in small, rural/remote Indigenous communities may seek to balance connectivity challenges and digital innovations with land-based living specific to place and community. Drawing on efforts to broaden critical digital litera…
Iinaaka Siinakupii Tsiniikii (Little video storyteller): Co-designing digital literacy with Piikani First Nation
Tensions persist in co-designing appropriate forms of digital literacy with Indigenous peoples, particularly in contexts of settler colonialism. Given the historically extractive nature of many institutional research relations with Indigenous peoples, emphasis should be placed on community-led approaches to learn how people are adapting and adopting digital technologies. Through concepts like Niitooii (the same that is real; paralleling), Indigen…
Assessing the impacts of low-earth orbital satellite systems in remote indigenous communities: Social and economic outcomes of use in northern Canada
Despite significant efforts to enhance digital connectivity in Canada's Far North, connectivity issues persist, particularly in small rural/remote communities. The recent emergence of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites may present one solution due to their lower latency, higher bandwidth, and potentially reduced costs when compared to traditional geostationary satellites. However, available primary data on user experiences with LEO satellite servic…
Too much of a good thing? Emergent online harms during early adoption of low-earth orbital satellite systems in remote northern communities
The rapid deployment and adoption of Low-Earth Orbital (LEO) satellite systems present new opportunities – and challenges – for rural/remote communities, which have until recently lacked access to high-speed, reliable Internet services. Such impacts are pronounced in small-population Indigenous communities seeking to balance cultural and language resurgence while navigating engagement with settler states and extractivist economies. However, there…
Extending Extractivism: Analysing Canadian Telecommunication Corporations’ Reconciliation Rhetoric
Similar to pipelines used in oil and gas development, telecommunications networks of cable, satellite, fibre optic and wireless infrastructure extend deep into Indigenous territories as a form of “extractivism” (Greer, 2019). These developments raise barriers to substantive reconciliation between settler states, corporations and Indigenous peoples. Yet despite important analyses of corporate policy discourses regarding how natural resource extrac…
Political science (16 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Indigenous (12 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Broadband (7 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (7 works)