- Greg Elmer
Greg Elmer (n. 1967, Birmingham, U.K.)
Greg Elmer is Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Associate Professor of Radio TV Arts, and Director of the
Infoscape Research Lab atRyerson University in Toronto, Canada.He was awarded a PhD in Communication from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2000. He is author of "Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy" (MIT Press: 2004), in addition to two other edited books, and a number of articles and book chapters. Professor Elmer previously held faculty appointments in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh (1999–2000), Boston College (2000–2003), and Florida State University (2003–2004).
In the spring of 2007 Dr. Elmer was visiting faculty fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio, Royal Dutch Academy of Social Sciences, Amsterdam. He has also received fellowships from the SSRC (New York City) and the Quebec government's FCAR agency. In the summer 2006 he was awarded a three year research grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
In the fall of 2006 Professor Elmer, along with a number of graduate students at the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University in Toronto initiated the Code Politics Project, the first comprehensive study of the internet in Canadian politics. The lab's key researchers/graduate students include Zach Devereaux, Ganaele Langlois, Fenwick McKelvey, Peter Ryan, and Brady Curlew. Research reports from the project have become weekly readings for journalists, members of Parliament, political staff, and other communications and government relations employees in Ontario and across Canada. Research from the project has also been highlighted on CBC, CPAC, Global, CTV Newsnet, CBC Radio Canada, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.
In October, 2007 Greg Elmer joined the Canadian political newspaper
The Hill Times as a regular columnist. During the 2008 federal election professor Elmer served as a consultant and commentator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's coverage of the internet campaign.External links
• Infoscape Research Lab: [http://www.infoscapelab.ca]
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