Selected Publications

Journal Articles          

Lentz, B. (November 8, 2016). Funding policy advocacy: An interview with the founder and director of the Media Democracy Fund. In Working for Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality and the Labors of Policy Advocacy in the U.S. [Special Section]. International Journal of Communication, Vol 10: 5811-5826.

Couture, S., King, G., Toupin, S., Lentz, B. (Jan/Feb 2016). Can Media and Technology Help Make “Another World Possible”? Reflections from the Media@McGill Research Delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum in Tunisia [Research-in-Brief]. Canadian Journal of Communication, 41(1).

Lentz, B. and Kirkpatrick, B. (2014, September 15). [Feature]. Wanted: Public interest mavericks at the FCC. International Journal of Communication, Volume 8: 2503–2518.

Lentz, B. (2014, June 3). The media policy tower of babble: A case for policy literacy pedagogy. [Invited think piece for Special Issue: The Future of Internet Policy]. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 31(2), 134-140. doi:10.1080/15295036.2014.921318

Lentz, B. (2014, May). Building the pipeline of media and technology policy advocates: The role of situated learning. [Special Issue: Media Advocacy Labor]. Journal of Information Policy, 4, 176-204. doi:10.5471/jip.v4i0.167

Lentz, B. (2013, November 15). Excavating historicity in the U.S. network neutrality debate: An interpretive perspective on policy change. [Special Issue: Policy, Politics, and Discourse]. Communication, Culture & Critique, 6(4), 568–597. doi:10.1111/cccr.12033

Lentz, R.G. and Oden, M. (2001). Digital divide or digital opportunity in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. Telecommunications Policy, 25(5), 291–313. doi:10.1016/S0308-5961(01)00006-4

Lentz, R.G. (2000, August). The e-volution of the digital divide in the U.S: A mayhem of competing metrics. Info, 2(4), 355-377. doi:10.1108/14636690010801609


Special Journal Issues/Sections

​Lentz, B., & Perlman, A. (Eds.) (November 8, 2016). Working for Internet Freedoms: Network Neutrality and the Labors of Policy Advocacy in the U.S. [Special Section]. International Journal of Communication, Volume 10, 211 pages.

Lentz, B., & Shade, L.R. (Eds.) (2011). Democratizing communication policy in the Americas: Why it matters. [Special Issue]. The Canadian Journal of Communication, 36(1), 199 pages.

Mueller, M., & Lentz, B. (Eds.) (2004). Social determinants of public policy in the information age. [Special Issue]. The Information Society Journal, 20(3): 155-238.


Books

​Straubhaar, J., Spence, J, Tufekci, Z, & Lentz, R.G. (Eds.) (March 15, 2012). Inequity in the technopolis: Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press: 284 pages.


Book Chapters

Lentz, B. (June 2016). Media Policy Literacy - A Foundation for Media Reform. In D. Freedman, J. Obar, C. Martens and R. McChesney (Eds.), Strategies for media reform: International perspectives. New York, NY: Fordham University Press Everett C. Parker Book Series.

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Lentz, B. (October 19, 2015). Media Policy Literacy. In P. Decherney and V. Picard (Eds.), The History and Future of Internet Policy. London: Routledge. (Reprinted from Critical Studies in Media Communication, 31(2), pp. 134-140, by Becky Lentz, 2014.)

Lentz, B. (2011). Civil society in the digital age. In M. Edwards (Ed.), Oxford handbook on civil society (337-348). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Lentz, B. (2011). Regulation as linguistic engineering. In R. Mansell and M. Raboy (Eds.), The handbook of global media and communication policy (432-448). Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell.


Book Reviews

Lentz, B. (2015). Book review: Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left. New Media and Society, 17 (10), 1750-1752.

Lentz, B. (2014). Book review: Global governance and NGO participation: Shaping the information society in the United Nations. Global Media and Communication, 10 (2), 223-225. doi:10.1177/1742766514541021a


Encyclopedia Entries

Lentz, B. (2010, October). Media infrastructure policy and media activism. In J. D. Downing (Ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (323-326). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.


Other Writings

​Lentz, B. (2013, September 27). Beneath the glitz of digital Activism. [Web log]. Retrieved from http://inthetank.newamerica.net/blog/2013/09/beneath-glitz-digital-activism

Lentz, B. (2010, January 9). Does ‘deep packet inspection’ turn you on? FlowTV 11(5). Retrieved from http://flowtv.org/2010/01/does-deep-packet-inspection-turn-you-onbecky-l...

Lentz, B. (2010). Foreword. In M. Aslama and P. Napoli (Eds.), Communications research in action: Scholar-activist collaborations for a democratic public sphere (ix-xiv). New York, NY: Fordham University Press.

Lentz, B. (2009, October 30). Regulation is boring. FlowTV 11(1). Retrieved from http://flowtv.org/2009/10/regulation-is-boringbecky-lentz-mcgill-univers...

Lentz, R.G. (1998). Commentary: Corporations vs. communities: The evolution of wireless in the U.S. and the devolution of local control. Telecommunications Policy 22(10), 791-795. doi:10.1016/S0308-5961(98)00063-9

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