Concordia University
Department of Communication Studies
Fenwick McKelvey

Concordia University
Department of Communication Studies
Address: 7141 Sherbrooke St. West CJ-3.230 Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6
Tel: (514) 848-2424 ext. 8673
Fax: (514) 848-4257
Email: fenwick.mckelvey@concordia.ca
Education
PhD Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture (Ryerson University and York University)
Research
Fenwick McKelvey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. He specializes in research on the fields of communication and journalism. More specifically, Professor McKelvey is examining questions of the algorithmic media, internet traffic management, internet policy, and governance. In addition, he has been working on research investigating the use of campaign management sofware in political campaigns in Canada and the US. Research Interests Citizenship and democracy Content and media analysis Media Analysis New Communication Technology Political Communication Research Axis Axis 2: Practicing Citizenship in a Skeptical World - The practice of democratic citizenship is undergoing a multifaceted transition. There are fundamental changes in conceptions of democratic citizenship and in its practice as well as the targets of citizen action. Scepticism about representative democracy as a system of governance is growing and citizens across established democracies are withdrawing from politics. Their perception about the political world is impacted by transformations in the news media practices and by online content, including social media. Voting and party politics have been the basis of conventional interpretations of citizenship, but there is ample evidence that this conception is much too limited. New forms of communication are providing citizens with novel ways to gather information and to engage in politics.Axis 3: Representing and Governing Citizens in Critical Times - After learning and practicing democratic citizenship, the next critical steps are representation and governance. Democratic institutions are key elements. They shape the norms and incentives for active citizenship and they link citizens and their representatives in ways that foster accountability, legitimacy and representation. In Québec and Canada, as well as in other countries, confidence of citizens toward the institutions is low, as many dislike the way that members of parliaments behave and consider that politicians dont honour their promises, hence various political endeavours to reform these institutions. Research on this axis will focus on the role of electoral systems, parliaments, parliamentary debates, and political parties.
Students
Publications
The Permanent Campaign: New Media, New Politics
Year: 2012 Place: New York Publisher: Peter Lang
A Consensual Hallucination No More? The Internet as Simulation Machine
Journal: European Journal of Cultural Studies
Volume: 18 issue: 4 Year: 2015 First Page: 577 Last Page: 594 M. tiessen L. Simcoe
We Like Copies, Just Don't Let the Others Fool You: The Paradox of The Pirate Bay
Journal: Television and New Media
End and ways: The algorithmic politics of network neutrality
Journal: Global Media Journal - Canadian Edition
Volume: 3 issue: 1 Year: 2010
A Programmable Platform? Drupal, Modularity, and the Future of the Web
Journal: Fibreculture
Volume: 18 Year: 2011
Mapping Commercial Web 2.0 Worlds: Towards a New Critical Ontogenesis
Journal: Fibreculture
Volume: 14 Year: 2009 F. Langlois G. Elmer K. Werbin
Networked Publics: the Double Articulation of Code and Politics on Facebook
Journal: Canadian Journal of Communication
Volume: 34 issue: 3 Year: 2009 First Page: 415 Last Page: 434 G. Langlois G. Elmer Z. Devereaux
Election Bloggers: Methods for Determining Political Influence
Journal: First Monday
Volume: 12 issue: 4 Year: 2007 G. Elmer P. Ryan Z. Devereaux G. Langlois and J. Redden
Openness Compromise? Questioning the Role of Openness in Digital Methods and Contemporary Critical Praxis
Journal: Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data
Year: 2015 First Page: 126 Last Page: 146 Place: New York Publisher: Bloomsbury
You Are Not Welcome Among Us: Pirates and the State
Journal: International Journal of Communication
Volume: 9 issue: 19 Year: 2015 First Page: 890 Last Page: 908 J. Beyer
Algorithmic Media Need Algorithmic Methods: Why Publics Matter
Journal: Canadian Journal of Communication
Volume: 39 issue: 4 Year: 2014
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