Journals

• McKelvey, F. (2011). A Programmable Platform? Drupal, Modularity, and the Future of the Web. Fibreculture, (18).
• McKelvey, Fenwick. (2010). Ends and ways: The algorithmic politics of network neutrality. Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition, 3(1). 51-73.
• McKelvey, F. & O’Donnell, S. (2010), Out from the Edges: Multi-site Videoconferencing as a Public Sphere in First Nations. Journal of Community Informatics. 5(2)
• Langlois, G., McKelvey, F.;, Elmer, G, & Werbin, K. (2009). Mapping Commercial Web 2.0 Worlds: Towards a New Critical Ontogenesis. Fibreculture 14.
• Langlois, G, Elmer, G., McKelvey, F., & Devereaux, Z. (2009). Networked Publics: the Double Articulation of Code and Politics on Facebook. Canadian Journal of Communication 34(3). pp. 415-434.
• Elmer, G., Ryan, P. M., Devereaux, Z., Langlois, G., Redden, J., & McKelvey, F. (2007). Election Bloggers: Methods for Determining Political Influence. First Monday, 12(4).

Other Publications

• McKelvey, F. (2011). Making Traffic Public: A Proposal for a Public Study of Internet Usage in Canada. In M. Moll & L. R. Shade (Eds.), The Internet Tree: The State of Telecom Policy in Canada 3.0 (pp. 143-152). Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
• Essay for DeepPacketInspection.ca titled Deep Packet Inspection and Control over Communication, published May 2010
• Appeared on CBC’s The National for the Ormiston Online segment during Canada Votes 2008. Watch an extended version , How to Wiki With Fenwick McKelvey . It aired September 2008

Thesis

McKelvey, Fenwick (2008). The Code and Politics of Drupal and The Pirate Bay: Alternative Horizons of Web2.0 MA Thesis, Joint Programme in Communication and Culture, York/Ryerson Universities.

Abstract

Code politics investigates the ramifications of digital code to contemporary politics. Recent developments on the web, known as web2.0, have attracted the attention of the field.Web2.0 is an explosion of web platforms: structurations of humans and code with specific affordances. Platforms, then, have distinct code politics. The thesis compares the code politics of two web2.0 platforms: Drupal, a content management platform, and The Pirate Bay, a file sharing website and political movement. The works of Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Bruno Latour on articulation theory offers a theoretical lens to compare the articulatory capacities of the two platforms. The Drupal case studies the complex interactions between humans and code, and addresses how Drupal functions as an empty platform allowing its users to reconstitute its digital code. The Pirate Bay case demonstrates how a political movement uses code as part of their political platform. Not only does the group advocate file sharing, they allow thousands of people across the world to share information freely. The two platforms demonstrate alternative, commons-based structurations of web2.0 at a time when most web2.0 platforms only seek a revenue model.