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Inspired by the excellent CAUT conference on Controlling Intellectual Property - The Academic Community and the Future of Knowledge I’ve posted a pdf of this paper which hasn’t been published…
Patenting Life: Commodification, the Patent Regime, and the Public Interest
Abstract
This paper will look at bioinformatics and the various ethical issues raised by the patenting of life forms. Debates over life patents, specifically the 2002 Canadian Supreme Court decision which ruled against patenting the OncoMouse
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Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet….
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Canadian Journal of Communication
Vol. 30(4)
Editorial
Kim Sawchuk 459
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How Connected are Canadians? Inequities in Canadian Households
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Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication (Second Edition), edited by Paul Attallah, Carleton University, and Leslie Regan Shade, Concordia University. Thomson Nelson, 2006.
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Associate Professor at Concordia University. BA, Communication/Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego. MA, Library & Information Science, UCLA. PhD, Communication, McGill University.
My research and teaching for the last decade or so focuses on the social, policy, and ethical aspects of information & communication technologies. Keywords: internet, access, gender, public interest, feminist(isms), policy, media reform, youth, Canadian communication studies, and political economy.
