The Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland

Lisa McLaughlin is recipient of a University of Queensland Travel Award for International Collaborative Research.

Assoc. Prof. Lisa McLaughlin Lisa McLaughlin is an Associate Professor at Miami University-Ohio, USA, where she holds a joint appointment in Mass Communication and Women's Studies. She is also Director of Graduate Studies for the Master of Arts in Mass Communication Program. McLaughlin is editor of Feminist Media Studies, an international peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge. She has published a number of articles and chapters on feminism, media, and the public sphere, and, more recently, on feminism and the political economy of transnational public space. She teaches courses in international communications, global media governance, and feminist media theory and practice.

Her recent work focuses on ICTs and the corporatization of development as it has emerged under the auspices of the United Nations. At present, McLaughlin's research concentrates on Cisco Systems' Networking Academy Programs and the corporation's Gender Initiatives that have originated as public-private partnerships brokered through the UN. She was the representative to the World Summit on the Information Society on behalf of the Union for Democratic Communications. During the first phase of the WSIS, she was a member of the sub-committee on civil society participation and the civil society content and themes group.

In the post-WSIS context, she (along with Professor Soenke Zehle of the University of Saarland, Germany) has created and maintained the virtual organization PPP-in-ICT Watch (Public-Private Partnerships in Information and Communication Technology Watch: http://www.pppwatch.org), which is a project following from the Incommunicado 05 conference sponsored by the Institute of Network Cultures, University of Amsterdam, and Kein.org.

Associate Professor McLaughlin will be a Visiting Fellow of the Centre from 10 April to 15 May 2006, during which time she will be working with Professor Carmen Luke. Lisa will present a seminar on "The Gendered Ties That Bind the 'New Global Governance' to the 'New Information Economy'" as part of the CCCS seminar program.

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Lisa M. McLaughlin, Ph.D.

Contact Information: Mass Communication; Williams Hall; Miami University; Oxford, OH 45056 USA; Telephone: (513) 529-3547; Fax: (513) 529-1835; E-Mail: mclauglm@muohio.edu

Positions Currently Held: Associate Professor, joint appointment, Department of Communication and Program in Women's Studies; Director of Graduate Studies, M.A. Program in Mass Communication; Founding Editor and Current Co-editor, Feminist Media Studies (international peer-reviewed journal published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis)

Education: B.A. (1983), M.A. (1985), and Ph.D. (1993), University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Ph.D. degree in Media Studies with concentration in women's studies, international relations, and critical political economy and social theory (emphasis on transnational public sphere theory).

Selected Publications:

McLaughlin, Lisa and Pickard, Victor (December 2005). "What is Bottom-up About Internet Governance?" In Global Media and Communication 1, 3: pp. 359-375.
McLaughlin, Lisa (November 2005). "Cisco Systems, the United Nations, and the Corporatization of Development." In Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle (eds.), The Incommunicado Reader: Information Technology for Everybody Else, pp. 50-64. University of Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures and The Hague, Netherlands: HIVOS.
McLaughlin, Lisa (forthcoming, 2006). “’No Investment, No Information Society’: Cosmopolitan Corporatism and the World Summit on the Information Society." In Television and New Media, 7.
McLaughlin, Lisa (forthcoming, 2006; in press, December 2005). "Feminism and the Risk of Transnational Representation: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan 'Reaches Out' to the West." Chapter commissioned by Daya Kishan Thussu (ed.), Media Movements: Flow and Contra-flow in International Communications. [Communication and Society series, James Curran (series ed.)]. London: Routledge
McLaughlin, Lisa (forthcoming, 2007). "Women, Informational Labor, and the Corporatization of Development." In Katharine Sarikakis and Leslie Regan Shade (eds.), Feminist International Communication Studies. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield.
McLaughlin, Lisa (2004). "Feminism and the Political Economy of Transnational Public Space." In the Sociological Review 52, 1s [reprinted in Nick Crossley and John M. Roberts, eds. (2004). After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere. London: Blackwell]
McLaughlin, Lisa (2001). "Something Old, Something New: Lingering Moments in the Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism." In Eileen R. Meehan and Ellen Riordan (eds.), Sex and Money: Intersections of Feminism and Political Economy. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
McLaughlin, Lisa (1999). "Beyond ‘Separate Spheres’: Feminism and the Cultural Studies/Political Economy Debate." In Journal of Communication Inquiry 23, 4.
McLaughlin, Lisa (1998). " Gender, Privacy and Publicity in ‘Media Event Space.’" In Cynthia Carter et al. (eds.), News, Gender and Power. London: Routledge.

Journal Editorships:

Founding Editor and Co-editor (with Cynthia Carter), Feminist Media Studies (international journal published by Routledge-London); 2001 – present
Editor, Journal of Communication Inquiry (published by Sage); Fall 1993 – Fall 1994

Selected Recent Presentations:

McLaughlin, Lisa (June 2005). Issues in Multistakeholderism. Introduction to the theme panel on “After WSIS: Exploring Multistakeholderism.” Paper presented at the first Incommunicado 05 conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
McLaughlin, Lisa (June 2005). Cisco Systems, the United Nations, and the Corporatization of Development. Paper presented at the first Incommunicado 05 conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
McLaughlin, Lisa (June 2005). Women, Informational Labor, and the Corporatization of Development. Paper presented at the annual Canadian Communication Association conference, London, ON, Canada.
McLaughlin, Lisa (May 2005). Engendering Informational Labor: The Real Gender Agenda of the World Summit on the Information Society. Paper presented at the annual International Communication Association conference (Feminist Scholarship Division), New York City, NY.
McLaughlin, Lisa (May 2005). Global Neo-Corporatism and the World Summit on the Information Society. Paper presented at the annual International Communication Association conference (Communication Law and Policy Division), New York City, NY.
McLaughlin, Lisa (January 2005). Beyond the ICT4D Paradigm. Paper presented at the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
McLaughlin, Lisa (2004). Feminism, Cosmopolitan Corporatism, and Co-optation: Notes from the World Summit on the Information Society. Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, New Orleans, LA.
McLaughlin, Lisa (2004). Coordinating Empire: Cosmopolitan Corporatism and the World Summit on the Information Society. Paper presented at the Union for Democratic Communications conference, St. Louis, MO.

Selected Additional Activities:

Member, Sub-committee 1 on Civil Society Participation, Civil Society Plenary, World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, Switzerland, 2003-4); Member, Civil Society Content and Themes Group (Geneva, Switzerland, 2003-4)
Member, Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) Campaign (nongovernmental organization): Working Group on Media Diversity/Media and Trade (2003-4) and Working Group on Financing Mechanisms for Development (2004-present)
Co-originator and co-administrator of online organization and listserv, PPP-in-ICT.org (Public Private Partnerships in Information and Communication Technology); organization devoted to providing resources on ICT partnerships