Selected publications listed here; see also Google Scholar Profile
Recent
Smith, K. L., Akanbi, O., Maqsood, S., Obar, J. A., Redden, J., & Bannerman, S. (2025). Crafting an Intersectional Response to Bill C-27 for the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. Canadian Journal of Communication, 50(1), 54–67. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2024-0019
Smith, K.L., Shade, L.R. and Clement, A. (2024). Revisiting the Access Rainbow [Points of view submission]. The Journal of Community Informatics. 20(2), 64-72. Available online: https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/5906/6050
Smith, K.L., Shade, L.R. Grant, L., Kumar, P.K., Zaffaroni, L.G., Amadori, G. Mascheroni, G., Heath, M.K., Krutka, D.G., Pangrazio, L., Selwyn, N., and Jarke, J. (2024). Children as Data Subjects: Families, Schools and Everyday Lives [Book chapter]. In J. Jarke and J. Bates (Eds.) Dialogues in Data Power: Shifting Response-abilities in a Datafied World. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. Available online: https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529238327.ch002
Journal Articles
Smith, K. L., and Guzik, E. (2022). Developing Privacy Extensions: Is it Advocacy through the Web Browser?. Surveillance & Society, 20(1), 64-81. Available online: https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v20i1.13958
Smith, K. L. (2021). iPads, Free Data, and Young Peoples’ Rights: Refractions from a Universal Access Model During the Pandemic. Studies in Social Justice. Available online: https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v15i3.2509
Smith, K. L. and Shade, L. R. (2018). Children’s Digital Playgrounds as Data Assemblages: Problematics of Privacy, Personalization and Promotional Culture. Big Data & Society. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718805214
Smith, K. L., Shade, L. R. & Shepherd, T. (2017). Open Privacy Badges for Digital Policy Literacy. The International Journal of Communication. 11: 2784-2805. Available online: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6174/
Smith, K. L. (2017). Social Innovation Partnerships: An Opportunity for Critical, Activist Scholarship. Canadian Journal of Communication. 42(1): 99-112. Available online: http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/3103/3327
McPhail, B., Parsons, C., Smith, K. L., Ferenbok, J. & Clement, A. (2012). Identifying Canadians at the Border: ePassports and the 9/11 Legacy. Canadian Journal of Law & Society: 27(3) 341-361. Available online: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/canadian_journal_of_law_and_society/v027/27.3.mcphail.html
Borchorst, N., McPhail, B., Smith, K. L., Ferenbok, J., & Clement, A. (2012). Bridging Identity Gaps – Supporting Identity Performance in Citizen Service Encounters. Computer Supported Cooperative Work: 21(6) 555-590. Available online: http://www.springerlink.com/content/73p645172wn5w270/fulltext.pdf
Smith, K. L., McPhail, B., Ferenbok, J., Tichine, A. & Clement, A. (2011). Playing with surveillance: The design of a mock RFID-based identification infrastructure for public engagement. Surveillance & Society: 9(1/2) 149-166. Available online: http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/playing
Damianakis, T., Crete-Nishihata, M., Smith, K. L., Baecker, R. M., & Marziali, M. (2010). The Psychosocial Impacts of Multimedia Biographies on Persons With Cognitive Impairments. The Gerontologist: 50(1) 23-35. Available online: http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/1/23.abstract
Smith, K. L., Crete-Nishihata, M., Damianakis, Marziali, M. & Baecker, R. M. (2009). Multimedia Biographies: A Reminiscence and Social Stimulus Tool for Persons with Cognitive Impairment. Journal of Technology in Human Services: 27 (4) 287-306. Available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15228830903329831
Book chapters
Smith, K. L. (2019). Our Community Hacks: Exploring Hive Toronto’s Open Infrastructures. In Making Our World: Hacker and Maker Movements in Context (Eds. Schrock, A. & Hunsinger, J.) Peter Lang.
McPhail, B., Clement, A., Smith, K. L., Weber, J., Ferenbok, J., & Tichine, A. (2014). Proportionate ID cards: Prototyping for Privacy and Accountability. In DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media (Eds. M. Ratto and M. Boler). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Conference proceedings and workshops
Smith, K. L., Shepherd, T., Belshaw, D., Shade, L. R., and Meisner, K. (2015). Production, Play and Remix: Building Networked Privacy Through Empowerment. Networked Privacy Workshop at Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Vancouver, BC, March 14-15. Available online: https://networkedprivacy2015.wordpress.com/papers/
Clement, A., McPhail, B., Smith, K. L., & Ferenbok, J. (2012). Probing, Mocking and Prototyping: Participatory Approaches to Identity Infrastructuring. PDC ’12: Proceedings of the 12th Participatory Design Conference. Roskilde, Denmark: August 12-16. Volume 1, pp 21-30. Available online: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2347635.2347639
Smith, K. L. (2010). Ethnographically exploring deliberation through policy pertinent social media in Ontario. Online Deliberation 2010 conference. Leeds, UK: June 30-July 2, 2010. Available online: http://www.od2010.di.unimi.it/docs/proceedings/Proceedings_OD2010.pdf
McPhail, B., Boa, K., Ferenbok, J., Smith, K. L. & Clement, A (2009). Identity, Privacy and Security Challenges with Ontario’s Enhanced Driver’s Licence. In proceedings from 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference – Science and Technology for Humanity. Toronto: September 26-27. Available online: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5444399
Moore, G., Lottridge, D., & Smith, K. L. (2010). Designing Design Learning: A Case Study. Proceedings for Design Research Society 2010 Design & Complexity Conference. Montreal: July 7-9, 2010. Available online: http://www.designresearchsociety.org/docs-procs/DRS2010/PDF/088.pdf
Smith, K. L. (2009). From talk back to tag clouds: Social media, information visualization and design. In proceedings from 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference – Science and Technology for Humanity. Toronto: September 26-27. Available online: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5444370
Reviews, reports, white papers, policy interventions, and other contributions
Bannerman, S., Smith, K.L., Redden, J., Akanbi, O. Maqsood, S., Obar, J. and Streeter, T. (2023). Submission to The Standing Committee on Industry and Technology on Bill C-27… [PDF brief submitted to INDU]. Parliament of Canada. https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/441/INDU/Brief/BR12793483/br-external/Jointly8-e.pdf
Smith, K. L. and Shade, L. R. (2021). Youth and Social Media: From Vulnerability to Empowerment & Equality (Guest Editors’ Introduction). Studies in Social Justice. Available online: https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v15i3.2671
Smith, K. L. (2016). Theories, practices and examples for community and social informatics. Information, Communication & Society, 19:12, 1773-1774, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1224911
Smith, K. L. & Belshaw, D. (2015). Exploring Net Neutrality with Mozilla Webmaker. In Online Case Study for The Civic Media Project associated with The Civic Media Reader (Eds. Gordon, E. and Mihailidis, P.) Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Available online: http://civicmediaproject.org/works/civic-media-project/netneutralitymozillawebmaker
Smith, K. L., Meisner, K., Shade, L., Shepherd, T, and Belshaw, D. (2015). Co-Designing Open Badges for Privacy Education with Canadian Youth. Mozilla report for Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Contributions Program. Available online: http://hivetoronto.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CoDesigningBadgesFinalReport-30March2015.pdf
Belshaw, D. & Smith, K. L. (2014). Why Mozilla cares about Web Literacy. Mozilla white paper, available online at: https://mozilla.github.io/webmaker-whitepaper/
Consensus Submission to the Federal Government Consultation for a Digital Economy Strategy Economy for Canada (2010). Convened by Clement, A & Smith, K. L. Available online from: http://ipsi2010.pbworks.com/f/2010July9_DigEconSubmissionFinal.pdf