Tagged: Australia law reform

October 18, 2012

Invited meeting with Australian Law Reform Committee to discuss sexting

On October 31, 2012, Professors Bailey and Steeves will be meeting with the Law Reform Committee of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, which is conducting an inquiry into sexting. The Committee will be travelling to Canada and the United States in order to gather international opinions and views on legislative and policy responses to sexting and has invited Professors Bailey and Steeves to meet with it as part of its mandate. Professor Bailey has spoken on the issues of sexting and online child pornography in a number of national and international forums, and published a paper on The Gendered Dimensions of Sextingin 2011 together with UOttawa LL.B. graduate Mouna Hanna. Professor Steeves is examining sexting in the upcoming Young Canadians in a Wired World (YCWW) survey of 6,000 Canadian school children (visit MediaSmarts to learn more about YCWW).

News and Events

June 3, 2015

We are excited to announce the launch of, eGirls, eCitizens, a collective volume edited by Professors Bailey and Steeves (and featuring chapters by eGirls researchers Jacquie Burkell, Priscilla Regan, Madelaine Saginur, Trevor Scott Milford and Sarah Heath. eGirls, eCitizens will be published by uOttawa Press and is available for purchase or free electronic download here. The volume will be launched on June 3, 2015 from 4-5pm, at the Expo Event Space (Montpetit gym), during Congress of Social Sciences & Humanities 2015, hosted by the University of Ottawa.

June 5, 2015

eGirls researchers will be presenting in two panels at the Congress of Social Sciences & Humanities 2015, both held on 05 June at the University of Ottawa.

A round-table discussion by contributors to eGirls, eCitizens (uOttawa Press, 2015) will be held at the Canadian Communication Association Conference from 10:15 am - 11:45 am at STE C0136. The panel presentation, entitled "eGirls, eCitizens: A Dialogue on Theory and Policy", will highlight the contributions of several authors of the eGirls, eCitizens volume, including Valerie Steeves, Jane Bailey, Leslie Regan Shade, Madelaine Saginur, Trevor Scott Milford and Sarah Heath). The full schedule for this panel can be seen here.

Later in the day, Professors Steeves and Bailey, together with Matthew Johnson of MediaSmarts and Jordan Fairbairn of Carleton University, will lead an author meets reader session to discuss their contributions to eGirls, eCitizens (uOttawa Press, 2015) at the Canadian Law & Society Conference, also held at the University of Ottawa (FTX 133), from 3:45 – 5:15 pm.