Greg Elmer (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) is Bell Media Research Chair and Professor of Professional Communication at Toronto Metropolitan University. In addition to conducting scholarly research Greg has produced, co-produced and directed award winning documentaries, broadcast news segments, newspaper columns, and digital media research software. Greg’s current research focuses on conditions of media scarcity & social justice, cold war media, the history of media financialization, and digital forms of disinformation, discrimination and politics.
Greg previous held academic appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, Boston College and Florida State University. His research and teaching focus on new media and politics, surveillance studies, media financialization, and documentary film production. Greg was previously visiting Faculty Fellow at Amsterdam’s Virtual Knowledge Studio, the National Center for E-Social Science at the University of Manchester, the Social Science Research Council in New York City, the London School of Economics, Goldsmiths College, Yeungnam University, and Erasmus University. In the fall of 2022 he will be visiting faculty fellow at Sodertorn University, Stockholm.
Greg has published a number of books: Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data (co-edited with Ganaele Langlois and Joanna Redden, Bloomsbury, 2015), Infrastructure Critical (with Alexandra Renzi, ARP 2012), The Permanent Campaign: New Media, New Politics (with Ganaele Langlois & Fenwick McKelvey, Peter Lang, 2012), Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future, (with Andy Opel, ARP Press, 2008), Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy (2005: MIT Press),Critical Perspectives on the Internet (2002: Rowman and Littlefield), Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting, (with Mike Gasher co-editor, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), and Locating Migrating Media (with Charles Davis & Janinne Marchessault, Lexington Press, 2010).
Greg serves on the editorial board of The Information Society, Internet Histories, Social Media & Society, Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies, Topia, PARISS, the Canadian Journal of Communication, the Interactive Film & Media Journal, and the American Communication Journal.