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Fenwick McKelvey is a second-year PhD Candidate (Fall ‘08) in the Communication & Culture program at Ryerson and York Universities. He researches digital political communication, and digital research methods. His dissertation charts the politics of traffic management software – how it controls information and how it meets resistance. He is a research associate with the Infoscape Research Lab: Centre for the Study of Social Media

A graduate of the MA program in Communication & Culture, his MA work explored the code and politics of web2.0 by studying The Pirate Bay and Drupal. He holds a BA with Honours in Multidisciplinary Studies focusing on Political Science, International Development Studies, and Spanish. From 2004 to 2005, Fenwick completed an internship with Human Rights Internet, working with a Women’s rights organization in Rosario, Argentina.