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Number of items: 73.
Article
  • Powell, Alison (2025). Deceptive stories about scale: digital technology, public services, and the promise of efficiency. Journal of International Communication, 19, picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison (2025). Four ways to feminist research praxis: lessons from practice in AI ethics and policy research. Canadian Journal of Communication, 50(1), 11 - 25. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2024-0033 picture_as_pdf
  • Bhowmik, Samir, Nguyen, Minh Anh, Touliatou, Lydia, Powell, Alison, Rajan, Vishnu Vardhani (2025). Heat work: choreography as an ecological enquiry of machine learning and extractivism. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2025.2471618 picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison, McKelvey, Fenwick (2024). AI policymaking as drama: stages, roles, and ghosts in AI governance in the United Kingdom and Canada. Journal of Digital Social Research, 6(4), 77-91. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v6i440468 picture_as_pdf
  • Griffiths, Rupert, Powell, Alison, Stone, Taylor, Dunn, Nick, Dijkstra, Iris, Hector, Luca, Müller, Andreas Christian (2024). Re-wilding the night: understanding how darkness is valued through the nighttime light ecology of Bonn Botanical Gardens. Philosophy of the City Journal, 2, 12-29. https://doi.org/10.21827/potcj.2.2 picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison (2024). Objectivity vs affect: how competing forms of legitimacy can polarize public debate in data-driven public consultation. Information, Communication and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2329623 picture_as_pdf
  • Calvo, Rafael A., Deterding, Sebastian, Flick, Catherine, Lutge, Christoph, Powell, Alison, Vold, Karina V. (2022). After COVID-19: crises, ethics, and socio-technical change. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 3(4), 248-251. https://doi.org/10.1109/TTS.2022.3218500
  • Powell, Alison, Ustek Spilda, Funda, Lehuede Bravo, Sebastian, Shklovski, Irina (2022). Addressing ethical gaps in “technology for good”: foregrounding care and capabilities. Big Data and Society, 9(2), 1 - 12. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221113774 picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison (2021). Explanations as governance? Investigating practices of explanation in algorithmic system design. European Journal of Communication, 36(4), 362 - 375. https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231211028376 picture_as_pdf
  • Ustek-Spilda, Funda, Vega, Davide, Magnani, Matteo, Rossi, Luca, Shklovski, Irina, Lehuede, Sebastian, Powell, Alison (2020). A twitter-based study of the European internet of things. Information Systems Frontiers, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-020-10008-5 picture_as_pdf
  • Ustek Spilda, Funda, Powell, Alison, Nemorin, Selena (2019). Engaging with ethics in Internet of things: imaginaries in the social milieu of technology developers. Big Data and Society, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951719879468 picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison (2018). Moral orders in contribution cultures. Communication, Culture & Critique, 11(4), 513 – 529. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcy023 picture_as_pdf
  • Puschmann, Cornelius, Powell, Alison (2018). Turning words into consumer preferences: how sentiment analysis is framed in research and the news media. Social Media and Society, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118797724 picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison (2016). Hacking in the public interest: authority, legitimacy, means, and ends. New Media & Society, 18(4), 600 - 616. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816629470
  • Murthy, Dhiraj, Powell, Alison, Tinati, Ramine, Anstead, Nick, Carr, Leslie, Halford, Susan, Weal, Mark (2016). Automation, algorithms, and politics| bots and political influence: a sociotechnical investigation of social network capital. International Journal of Communication, 10, 4952-4971.
  • Powell, Alison (2016). Network exceptionalism: online action, discourse and the opposition to SOPA and ACTA. Information, Communication and Society, 19(2), 249-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1061572
  • Powell, Alison (2015). Open culture and innovation: integrating knowledge across boundaries. Media, Culture and Society, 37(3), 376-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443714567169
  • Couldry, Nick, Powell, Alison (2014). Big data from the bottom up. Big Data and Society, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714539277
  • Powell, Alison (2012). Democratizing production through open source knowledge: from open software to open hardware. Media, Culture and Society, 34(6), 691-708. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443712449497
  • Techatassanasoontorn, Angsana, Tapia, Andrea, Powell, Alison (2011). Learning processes in municipal broadband projects: an absorptive capacity perspective. Telecommunications Policy, 34(10), 572-595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2010.06.001
  • Powell, Alison (2011). Metaphors, models and communicative spaces: designing local wireless infrastructure. Canadian Journal of Communication, 36(1).
  • Powell, Alison, Cooper, Alissa (2011). Net neutrality discourses: comparing advocacy and regulatory arguments in the United States and the United Kingdom. Information Society, 27(5), 311-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2011.607034
  • Powell, Alison (2010). Method, methodology and new media: Grant Kien, Global technography: ethnography in the age of mobility; Nalita James and Hugh Busher, Online interviewing [Review article]. New Media & Society, 12(6), 1025-1031. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444810372889
  • Powell, Alison, Bryne, Amelia, Dailey, Dharma (2010). The essential internet: digital inclusion insights from low-income American communities. Policy and Internet, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.2202/1944-2866.1058
  • Tapia, Andrea Hoplight, Powell, Alison, Ortiz, Julio Angel (2009). Reforming policy to promote local broadband networks. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 33(4), 354-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859909340799
  • Powell, Alison (2008). WiFi publics: producing community and technology. Information, Communication and Society, 11(8), 1068-1088. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180802258746
  • Peddle, Katrina, Powell, Alison, Shade, Leslie Regan (2008). Bringing feminist perspectives into community informatics. Atlantis: a Women's Studies Journal, 32(2).
  • Powell, Alison (2007). What can I say?: (or, "Île Sans Fil are thieves and liars"*): stories from the heart of participatory research. Wi: Journal of Mobile Media,
  • Powell, Alison (2007). An ecology of public internet access: exploring contextual internet access in an urban community. The Electronic Journal of Communication, 17(1-2).
  • Powell, Alison, Shade, Leslie Regan (2006). Going Wi-Fi in Canada: municipal and community initiatives. Government Information Quarterly, 23(3-4), 381-403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2006.09.001
  • Powell, Alison (2005). Book review: community in the digital age: philosophy and practice. New Media & Society, 7(4), 589-591. https://doi.org/10.1177/146144480500700412
    • Book
  • Powell, Alison (2021). Undoing optimization: civic action in smart cities. Yale University Press.
    • Chapter
  • Powell, Alison, Taylor, Alex (2024). How can anyone be more than one thing? Dialogues on more-than-humanity in the smart city. In Heitlinger, Sara, Foth, Marcus, Clarke, Rachel (Eds.), Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation (pp. 223 - 238). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191980060.003.0013 picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison B. (2024). Data-based frictions in civic action: trust, technology, and participation. In Glückler, Johannes, Panitz, Robert (Eds.), Knowledge and Digital Technology (pp. 169 - 184). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39101-9_9 picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison (2023). Data ethics in practice: rethinking scale, trust, and autonomy. In Söderström, Ola, Datta, Ayona (Eds.), Data Power in Action: Urban Data Politics in Times of Crisis (pp. 59 - 78). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529233551.ch004 picture_as_pdf
  • Ustek Spilda, Funda, Powell, Alison, Shklovski, Irina, Lehuede Bravo, Sebastian Andres (2019). Peril v. promise: IoT and the ethical imaginaries. In CHI’19 Extended Abstracts . ACM Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison (2018). The data walkshop and radical bottom-up data knowledge. In Knox, Hannah, Nafus, Dawn (Eds.), Ethnography for a data-saturated world . Manchester University Press.
  • Powell, Alison (2017). Data walking and the production of radical bottom up knoweldge. In Knox, Hannah (Ed.), Big Data Ethnographies . University of Manchester Press.
  • Light, Ann, Shklovski, Irina, Powell, Alison (2017). Design for existential crisis. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '17 (pp. 722-734). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3052760
  • Powell, Alison (2016). Coding alternative modes of governance: learning from experimental “peer to peer cities”. In Kitchin, Rob, Perg, Sun-Yuen (Eds.), Code and the City . Routledge.
  • Powell, Alison (2014). The history and future of internet openness: from 'wired' to 'mobile'”. In Herman, Andrew, Hadlaw, Jan, Swiss, Thom (Eds.), Theories of the Mobile Internet . Routledge.
  • Powell, Alison (2014). ‘Datafication’, transparency, and good governance of the data city. In O'Hara, Kieron, Nguyen, Carolyn, Haynes, Peter (Eds.), Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2014: Social Networks and Social Machines, Surveillance and Empowerment (pp. 215-224). ISO Press Ebooks. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-450-3-215
  • Powell, Alison (2013). Argument-by-technology: how technical activism contributes to internet governance. In Brown, Ian (Ed.), Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet (pp. 198-220). Edward Elgar. picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison, Shade, Leslie Regan (2012). Community and municipal WiFi initiatives in Canada: evolutions in community participation. In Clement, Andrew, Gurstein, Michael, Longford, Graham (Eds.), Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics (pp. 183-201). Athabasca University Press.
  • Powell, Alison (2012). WiFi publics: defining community and technology at Montreal’s Île Sans Fil. In Clement, Andrew, Gurstein, Michael, Longford, Graham (Eds.), Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics (pp. 202-217). Athabasca University Press.
  • Peddle, Katrina, Powell, Alison, Shade, Leslie Regan (2012). "The researcher is a girl": tales of bringing feminist labour perspectives into community informatics. In Clement, Andrew, Gurstein, Michael, Longford, Graham (Eds.), Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics (pp. 117-132). Athabasca University Press.
  • Powell, Alison, Dailey, Dharma (2010). Towards a taxonomy for public interest communications research. In Napoli, Phil, Aslama, Minna (Eds.), Communications Research in Action: Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere (pp. 45-70). Fordham University Press.
  • Powell, Alison (2010). Wi-Fi, resistance, and making infrastructure visible. In Crow, Barbara, Longford, Michael, Sawchuk, Kimberly (Eds.), The Wireless Spectrum: the Politics, Practices and Poetics of Mobile Media (pp. 172-186). University of Toronto Press.
  • Dechief, Diane, Longford, Graham, Powell, Alison, Werbin, Kenneth C. (2008). Enabling communities in the networked city: ICTs and civic participation among immigrants and youth in urban Canada. In Aurigi, Alessandro, De Cindio, Fiorello (Eds.), Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City (pp. 155-170). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Powell, Alison (2008). Une innovation communautaire en milieu urbain: le cas d'Île Sans Fil. In Proulx, Serge, Couture, Stéphane, Rueff, Julien (Eds.), L'action Communautaire a L'ère du Numérique (pp. 139-160). Presses de l'Université du Québec.
  • Powell, Alison (2005). E-Life and real life: on- and off-line social life in an Internet café. In Consalvo, Mia, Allen, Matthew (Eds.), Internet Research Annual: Selected Papers From the Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2003, Volume 2 (pp. 135-148). Verlag Peter Lang.
    • Conference or Workshop Item
  • Powell, Alison (2019-02-25 - 2019-03-02) Understanding automated decisions [winner - staff prize] [Poster]. LSE Research Festival 2019: New World (Dis)Orders, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, GBR. picture_as_pdf
    • Report
  • Powell, Alison (2006). Île Sans Fil as a digital formation. Laboratoire de Communication Médiatisée par Ordinateur, Université du Québec à Montréal.
    • Online resource
  • Powell, Alison (2016). Algorithms, accountability, and political emotion: on the cultural assumptions underpinning sentiment analysis.
  • Powell, Alison (2016). Accountable machines: bureaucratic cybernetics?
  • Powell, Alison (2016). Making and measuring news: data and algorithms in journalism.
  • Powell, Alison (2016). Five Minutes with Alison Powell on what data means, how it is produced and what influence it has for decision-makers.
  • Powell, Alison (2016). LSE Data and Society delves into key social issues of algorithmic control.
  • Powell, Alison (2014). Alternative civic architecture: maps of the alternative internet.
  • Dulong de Rosnay, Melanie, Musiani, Francesca, Powell, Alison, Antoniadis, Panayotis (2014). Alternative internet(s) – what are they and do they have a future?
  • Powell, Alison (2014). Will the ‘Honest Brokers’ of Internet Governance Have Any Real Power?
  • Powell, Alison (2013). Book review: Regulating code: good governance and better regulation in the information age.
  • Powell, Alison (2012). Privatized governance and “consent of the networked”: Rebecca MacKinnon at Polis (guest blog).
  • Powell, Alison (2011). Web Blocking Policy made behind closed doors?
  • Powell, Alison (2011). Will the Digital Economy Act protect consumers from ‘speculative invoicing’?
    • Working paper
  • Forlano, Laura, Powell, Alison, Shaffer, Gwen, Lennett, Benjamin (2011). From the digital divide to digital excellence: global best practices for municipal and community wireless networks. New America Foundation.
  • Powell, Alison, Michael, Hills, Victoria, Nash (2010). Child protection and free speech: mapping the territory. (Discussion Forum Paper 17). Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
  • Dharma, Dailey, Amelia, Bryne, Powell, Alison, Joe, Karaganis, Jaewon, Chung (2010). Broadband adoption in low-income communities. Social Science Research Council (Great Britain).
  • Powell, Alison, Dailey, Dharma, Bryne, Amelia (2009). The social impact of communications infrastructure: what do we need to know? The Ethos Group.
  • Powell, Alison (2006). "Last mile" or local innovation?: Canadian perspectives on community wireless networking as civic participation. (CRACIN working papers 18). Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking.
  • Powell, Alison, Wong, Matt, Clement, Andrew (2006). Marking, locating, and designing for public and private wireless internet spaces. (CRACIN working papers 16). Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking.
    • Blog post
  • Powell, Alison, Wiggins, Chris (6 May 2025) How data governance happens (and why it matters). LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Powell, Alison (5 June 2024) AI is expensive. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf