Greg Elmer (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) is Bell Media Research Chair and Professor of Professional Communication at Ryerson University. Greg’s research and teaching focus on new media and politics, surveillance studies, software studies, collaborative media making, and media globalization.Greg has participated in a number of international projects, including most recently a research study of internet politics in S. Korea. For a number of years he provided internet research support with the Soros, Ford and Govcomorg Foundations to NGOs in eastern Europe, including Ukraine, Hungary and Poland. Greg was previously visiting Faculty Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio (Amsterdam), the National Center for E-Social Science at the University of Manchester, and a Digital Cultural Institutions fellow at the Social Science Research Council in New York City. More recently Greg served as Cultures of the Digital Economy research fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, senior faculty fellow at the London School of Economics, and visiting research professor at Yeungnam University, South Korea. For 2013-2014 Greg was visiting faculty fellow in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmith’s College, University of London.
Greg provides analysis and commentary for the media and expert witness testimony on the role of new media in Canadian politics. In the fall 2008 Greg worked with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on its internet coverage of the Canadian federal election. The CBC-Infoscape partnership resulted in a Gemini award for best cross platform project (2009). Greg has also contributed to election coverage for Global TV News and The Hill Times. Greg’s scholarly publications have appeared in a range of peer reviewed journals.
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), the Permanent Campaign: New Media, New Politics (with Ganaele Langlois & Fenwick McKelvey, Peter Lang, 2012), Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future, Andy Opel co-author (2008, ARP Press), 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, Mike Gasher co-editor (2005: Rowman and Littlefield), and Locating Migrating Media (2010: Lexington Press). He serves on the editorial board of The Information Society, Internet Histories, Critical/Cultural Studies, Space and Culture, Television and New Media, Topia, the Canadian Journal of Communication, and the American Communication Journal.