Karen Louise Smith

Biographic Data

ID3650467
NAMEKaren Louise Smith
GIVEN NAMESKaren Louise
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH K L
AFFILIATIONSBrock University
ORCID0000-0002-9031-3718
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Crafting an Intersectional Response to Bill C-27 for the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology

    Karen Louise Smith, Opeyemi Akanbi et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Communication2025References: 16

    Background: In the fall of 2023, a group of scholars prepared a brief to respond intersectionally to Bill C-27 after its second reading and study by the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. Updates to Canada’s private sector privacy law and regulation of artificial intelligence were important elements proposed in Bill C-27. Analysis: This article reflects upon five significant issues related to our brief and intersectionality. Conclusio…

  • Developing Privacy Extensions: Is it Advocacy through the Web Browser

    Open AccessKaren Louise Smith, Elysia GuzikARTICLESurveillance & Society2022References: 5

    In 2015, Edward Snowden recommended that ordinary citizens use adblocking software and an encryption-oriented privacy extension for their web browser to protect against surveillance. This paper critically explores how the development of privacy extension software for web browsers can be situated in relation to privacy advocacy. Privacy advocates are individuals who act on behalf of the citizenry to speak to governments and corporations about how …

  • IPads, Free Data and Young Peoples’ Rights: Refractions from a Universal Access Model During the Pandemic

    Open AccessKaren Louise SmithARTICLEStudies in Social Justice2021

    The United Nations deemed internet access to be of critical importance for human rights in 2016. In 2020, schools around the world closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. As schools were closed, inequities in internet access gained widespread public attention as many educational opportunities shifted online. Amidst this shift, this paper analyzes an Ontario provincial announcement to provide 21,000 iPads and free data for young people (ages 4-18), d…

  • Children's digital playgrounds as data assemblages: Problematics of privacy, personalization, and promotional culture

    Open AccessKaren Louise Smith, Leslie Regan ShadeARTICLEBig Data & Society2018Cited by: 3References: 16

    Children's digital playgrounds have evolved from commercialized digital spaces such as websites and games to include an array of convergent digital media consisting of social media platforms, mobile apps, and the internet of toys. In these digital spaces, children's data is shared with companies for analytics, personalization, and advertising. This article describes children's digital playgrounds as a data assemblage involving commercial surveill…

  • Social Innovation Partnerships: An Opportunity for Critical, Activist Scholarship

    Open AccessKaren Louise SmithARTICLECanadian Journal of Communication2017

    From 2013–2015, I was a Mitacs Elevate postdoctoral fellow with Mozilla. The program of research aimed to foster digital literacy capacities among youth and informal educators in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and specifically examined the extension of the Mozilla community’s free and open source software production practices to build a digital literacy network called Hive Toronto. This article presents results from a document analysis (n = 21) o…

  • Theories, practices and examples for community and social informatics

    Karen Louise SmithARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2016

    "Theories, practices and examples for community and social informatics." Information, Communication & Society, 19(12), pp. 1773–1774

  • Bridging Identity Gaps—Supporting Identity Performance in Citizen Service Encounters

    Open AccessNikolaj Gandrup Borchorst, Brenda Mcphail et al.ARTICLEComputer Supported Cooperative…2012

  • Identifying Canadians at the Border: EPassports and the 9/11 Legacy

    Open AccessBrenda Mcphail, Christopher Parsons et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Law and…2012Cited by: 3References: 4

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  • Playing with surveillance: The design of a mock RFID-based identification infrastructure for public engagement

    Open AccessKaren Louise Smith, Brenda Mcphail et al.ARTICLESurveillance & Society2011Cited by: 1References: 4

    In many jurisdictions around the globe, governments are developing ID schemes based on radio frequency identification (RFID) and biometric technologies. In Canada, four provinces recently implemented RFID based ‘enhanced’ drivers licences (EDL) in response to the United States’ Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), which requires all persons entering the United States to present a valid passport or alternative ‘secure’ document to prove th…

  • I am me, but who are you and what are we: The translation of personal pronouns and possessive determiners in advertising texts

    Karen Smith, Karen Louise SmithARTICLEMultilingua2004References: 2

    Article I am me, but who are you and what are we?: The translation of personal pronouns and possessive determiners in advertising texts was published on August 2, 2004 in the journal Multilingua (volume 23, issue 3)