Rhonda McEwen

Rhonda McEwenProfessor Rhonda McEwen

PhD Information, MSc Telecommunications (Hons.), MBA Information Technology (Hons)., BSc Information Management and Sociology (1st Class Hons.)

 

Recent Courses

Undergraduate

CCT 109 Contemporary Communications Technologies

CCT 110 The Rhetoric of Digital and Interactive Media Environments

Graduate

INF 1003 Information Systems, Services and Design

INF 1240 Research Methods

INF 2196 New Media and the Information Practices of the Young

INF 1004 Information Practice in Virtual Worlds

Selected Publications

  • McEwen, R. & Scheaffer, K. (2012). “Orality in the Library: How Mobile Phones Challenge Our Understandings of Collaboration in Hybridized Information Centers,” in Journal of Library and Information Science Research, DOI, 10.1016/j.lisr.2011.08.001, USA.
  • McEwen, R. & Fritz, M. (2010) “Getting on the Same Wavelength: An analysis of EMF Social Policy and Mobile Phone Practices of Youth in Canada,” in Mobile Communication: Dimensions of Social Policy, ed. James E. Katz, Transaction Publishers, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
  • Ling, R. & McEwen, R. (2010). “Mobile communication and ethics: implications of everyday actions on social order,” in Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics - Special issue on mobile/ubiquitous computing, Norway, Vol 4, No 2.
  • McEwen, R. (2010). “Tools of the Trade: Drugs, law and mobile phones,” in Canada, New Media and Society, July 7, 2010, DOI: 10.1177/1461444810365306, USA.
  • Hampton, K., Livio, O., Trachtenberg, C., & McEwen, R. (2010). “The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces,” in Contexts, Vol 9, No. 4, USA.
  • McEwen, R. & Wellman, B. (TBD) “Relationships, Community & Networked Individuals”, chapter in the upcoming book Postcards from the Metaverse: Reflections on how the entangling of the virtual with the physical may impact society, politics, and the economy, eds. Robin Teigland and Dominic Power, submitted December 2010.
  • McEwen, R. & Caidi, N. (2010). “Texting Home: examining the mobile phone practices of student newcomers to Toronto,” Conference proceedings Canadian Association of Information Science.
  • McEwen, R. (2010). “On My Own: Mobile Phone Practices of Young People in Times of Transition,” Conference proceedings at the Association of South East Asian Nations Conference, Manila.

Research Interests

My research and teaching centre on information practices involving new media technologies. I actively engage with questions on how we use, seek, share, and create information using media, and I consider the consequences of the uses of technologies on our communication, sociality, and humanity.

Research Areas

  • Social/New Media
  • Network Analysis
  • Mobile Communication
  • Tablet Computing
  • Non-verbal Communication
  • Information Practices
  • User Interface Design