Wilhelm Peekhaus

Education

• PhD, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
• MLIS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• BA (Joint Honors), Political Science and History, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Brief Bio | Research Interests

Dr. Peekhaus’s research has interrogated a range of topics, including privacy in the health context, the informational and communication aspects of genetically engineered seeds, seed libraries, open-access publishing, access to government information, and electronic waste. His current research focuses on artificial intelligence in the context of libraries. His work has appeared in journals such as Science & Society, TripleC, Government Information Quarterly, Library Quarterly, Library & Information Science Research, Journal of Information Science, the International Journal of Communication, Journal of Information Ethics, International Review of Information Ethics, and Journal of Information Policy.

Courses Taught

120 Information Technology Ethics
660 Information Policy
661 Ethics and the Information Society
799 Research Methods in Information Studies
891 (Anti)Political Economy of Information and Communication
960 Doctoral Seminar in Information Policy

Sample Publications

Selected Works of Wilhelm Peekhaus:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wilhelm_Peekhaus/research

Books:

Peekhaus, W. (2013). Resistance is fertile: Canadian biotechnology policy and struggles on the biocommons. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Articles:

Peekhaus, W. (2017). Open access among Canadian Library and Information Science Faculty / L’accès libre dans la communauté de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information au Canada. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 41, 105-146.

Peekhaus, W., & Proferes, N. (2016). An examination of North American library and information studies faculty perceptions of and experience with open-access scholarly publishing. Library & Information Science Research, 38, 18-29.

Peekhaus, W., & Proferes, N. (2015). How library and information science faculty perceive and engage with open access. Journal of Information Science, 41, 640-661.

Peekhaus, W. (2014). South Africa’s Promotion of Access to Information Act: An analysis of relevant jurisprudence. Journal of Information Policy, 14, 570-596.

Peekhaus, W. (2014). Digital content delivery in higher education: Expanded mechanisms for subordinating the professoriate and academic precariat. International Review of Information Ethics, 21, 57-63.

Peekhaus, W. (2012). The enclosure and alienation of academic publishing: Lessons for the professoriate. tripleC - Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 10(2), 577-599.

Peekhaus, W. (2011). Biowatch South Africa and the challenges in enforcing its constitutional right to access to information. Government Information Quarterly, 28, 542-552.

Peekhaus, W. (2011). Primitive accumulation and enclosure of the commons: Genetically engineered seeds and Canadian jurisprudence. Science & Society, 75, 529-554.

Peekhaus, W. (2010). The neo-liberal university and agricultural biotechnology: Reports from the field. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 30, 415-429.

Peekhaus, W. (2010). Monsanto discovers new social media. International Journal of Communication, 4, 955-976.

Peekhaus, W. (2008). Personal health information in Canada: A comparison of citizen expectations and legislation. Government Information Quarterly, 25, 669-698.

Peekhaus, W. (2008). Research in the biotech age: Can informational privacy compete? Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society, 28, 48-59.

Peekhaus, W. (2007). Privacy for sale - Business as usual in the 21st century: An economic and normative critique. Journal of Information Ethics, 16, 83-98.

Peekhaus, W. (2006). Personal medical information: Privacy or personal data protection? A theoretical approach to understanding the Canadian environment. Canadian Journal of Law & Technology, 5, 87-106.

Book Chapters:

Peekhaus, W. (2016). Biotechnology. In K. B. Jensen, R. T. Craig, J. Pooley & E. Rothenbuhler (Eds.), International encyclopedia of communication theory and philosophy (Vol. 1, pp. 194-199). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Peekhaus, W. (2016). Conceptualising and subverting the capitalist academic publishing model. In C. Fuchs & V. Mosco (Eds.), Marx and the political economy of the media (pp. 363-406). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.

Peekhaus, W. (2011). Regulating agricultural biotechnology in Canada: Paradoxes and conflicts of a closed system. In L. Tepperman & A. Kalyta (Eds.), Reading sociology (2nd ed., pp. 343-348). Toronto: Oxford University Press.