Dr Vanda Rideout

Vanda RideoutProfessor & Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. and MA, Carleton University; BA Honours Queen’s University

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Dr. Rideout teaches graduate and a variety of under graduate courses in research design, social stratification and the political economy of communication and media. Her research focuses on changes that are occurring with the shift to an information society. Her research program involves projects that investigate changes to service sector knowledge work and the social impact of advanced technology systems on community organizations in urban/rural areas. Her current research project examines information and knowledge society’s effect on high-skilled jobs at information and communication technology firms.This research activity and publications is reflected in the courses she teaches.  

Selected Publications

  • Rideout, V. (2009) The public interest, the right to communicate and Canada’s neo-liberal policy turn. Editors Dakroury, Aliaa, Mahmoud Eid & Yahya Kamalipour, The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, global debates, and Future Premises. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 323- 342 
  • Rideout, V. (2008) Digital Taylorisation of social service work: The Riverview Case study. Canadian Journal of Communication Vol. 33 (4), 685-700
  • Rideout, V. (2008) Public interest in communications: Beyond access to needs. Global Media Journal American Edition Vol. 7 (13), Article No. 5, 1-11
  • Rideout, V. (2007) No Information Age Utopia: Knowledge workers and clients in the social service sector. Editors McKercher, C. & Mosco, V. Knowledge Workers in the Information Age. Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield,  133-146
  • Rideout, Vanda; Andrew Reddick; W.J. McIver Jr.; Susan O’Donnell; Sandy Kitchen; Mary Milliken. (2007) Community Organizations in the Information Age: A study of community intermediaries in Canada. Journal of Community Informatics Vol. 3 (1), 1-86. 
  • Gibson, Kerri; Susan O’Donnell, Vanda Rideout. (2007) The project funding regime: Complications for community organizations and their staff. Canadian Public Administration Vol. 50 (3), 411-435
  • Rideout, V.; A. Reddick; O’Donnell, S.; McIver Jr. W.; Kitchen, S; Milliken, M.C. (2006) Community Intermediaries in the Knowledge Society. National Research Council Canada & University of New Brunswick 
  • Rideout, V. and Reddick, A. (2005). Sustaining community access to technology: Who should pay and why! The Journal of Community Informatics,1(2):45-62.
  • Rideout, V. (2003). Continentalizing Canadian telecommunications: The politics of regulatory reform, Kingston/Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, p.256.
  • Rideout, V. (2003/2). Digital inequalities in Eastern Canada,” Canadian Journal of Information and Library Sciences, 27(2):3-31.

 

Contact Information:

Dr Vanda Rideout
Professor & Director of Graduate Studies

Office: Carleton Hall 133
Phone: (506) 447-3393
Fax: (506) 453-4659