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Dr. Jeremy Shtern

Chair, Professor
EducationCommunication, Université de Montréal (Montréal, CA), Ph.D; New Media, Information & Society, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (London, UK), M.Sc; Film Studies, Queen’s University (Kingston, CA), BA; (Hons) Proficiency in Spanish, The Chang School - Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, CA)

Biography

Dr. Shtern joined the TMU faculty from the University of Ottawa in 2013, as the first full time faculty member hired in the School of Creative Industries. Among other contributions, he is co-author of two books: Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada (external link) , and Digital Solidarities: Communication Policy and Multi-stakeholder Global Governance The Legacy of the World Summit on the Information Society (external link) . He is also author or co-author on a dozen journal articles and book chapters and has made more than 30 paper presentations at scholarly conferences. Dr. Shtern's list of invited guest lectures includes visits to the Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and a Keynote at a 2014 International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, at JMI in New Delhi, India.  Professor Shtern is an innovative and entrepreneurial researcher whose research adds value to TMU and provides opportunities for its students. Since completing his SSHRC (external link)  and FRQSC (external link)  funded PhD and post-docs, Dr. Shtern’s research program has been supported with more than $250,000 in external research funding.

Dr. Shtern founded and directs the Global Communication Governance Research Lab at TMU. Among other academic leadership service appointments, he is vice-chair of the Communication Policy and Technology section of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Communications Association (CCA) (external link) . Jeremy has served on review juries for SSHRC, FRQSC, the Open Society Foundation and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and has peer-reviewed for leading journals and publishers. He teaches undergraduate courses in the Ryerson School of Creative Industries and regularly teaches and supervises in the York/TMU Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture.
 

Public Profiles:

  • Full member of TMU's Yeates School of Graduate Studies and thereby authorized to evaluate and supervise graduate student projects and theses.

  • Communication policy
  • Globalization & communication
  • Digital technologies
  • Creative labour
  • Internet governance
  • Communication rights
  • Internet and digital platform governance
  • Political economy of media

Books

Book Chapters

  • Hill, S & J. Shtern (in press, expected 2023). “Techlash, Platformization and the Struggle to Govern Online Content”. In A. Hintz, C. Padovani, G. Goggin et al (eds.) Global Communication Governance at the Crossroads. Palgrave.
  • Shtern, J.& S. Hill. (2021). “The Political Economy of Influence: Sponsored Content and Social Media Entertainment”. in S. Cunningham and D. Craig (eds), Creator Culture (external link) . New York: NYU Press. 329-362.
  • Levine, I. & Shtern, J. (2015). “Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship Education by Design: A Case Study of the Development and Launch of Canada’s First B.A. Program in Creative Industries”. in. O. Kuhluke, A. Schramme and R. Kooyman (eds)” Creating Cultural Capital (external link) . Chicago/Amsterdam: Eburon Academic Publishers/University of Chicago Press. pp. 214-223. 
  • Shtern, J. & Blake, S. (2014). “Power and Politics at the CRTC: The Recent Past and Uncertain Future of Canada’s Communications Regulator”. In: L. Shade (eds.) MediaScapes IV. Toronto: Pearson Education. pp. 84-106.
  • Davis, C.; Shtern, J.; Coutanche, M. & Godo, E. (2014). “Screenwriters in Toronto: Centre, Periphery, and Exclusionary Networks in Canadian Screen Storytelling”. In: J. Grant (eds.) Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation (external link) . Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 77-98.
  • Shtern, J.; Paré, D.; Ross, P. & Dick, M. (2013). “Historiographic Innovation: How the Past Explains the Future of Social Media Services”. In A. Krumsvik and T. Storsul (eds.) Media Innovations: A Multidisciplinary Study of Change (external link) . Gothenburg: Nordicom. pp. 239-254.
  • Shtern, J. (2012). “Beyond Policy Analysis: Methods for Qualitative Investigation”. in I. Wagman & P. Urquhart (eds.) Cultural Industries.ca: Making Sense of Canadian Media in the Digital Age. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company. pp. 166-182.
  • Shtern, J.; Landry, N. & Raboy, M. (2012). “The Least Imperfect Form of Global Governance Yet? Civil Society and Multi-Stakeholder Governance of Communication”. in D. Frau-Meigs et al. (eds.) From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics (external link) . Bristol, UK: Intellect Ltd. pp. TBC.
  • Raboy, M. & Shtern, J. (2010). “Mediated Speech and Communication Rights: Situating Cyber-Bullying Within the Emerging Global Internet Page 12 of 20Governance Regime”. in S. Shariff & A. Churchill (eds.) Truths and Myths of Cyber-Bullying: Stakeholder Responsibility and Childrens’ Safety (external link) . New York: Peter Lang. pp. 193-228.

Guest & Keynote Speaking

  • Shtern, J. (2016). UNESCO global consultation on Internet indicators. Invited by UNESCO to participate in an IAMCR Special Session panel discussion of global internet indicators. Cartagena, COL. July 2017.
  • Shtern, J. (2016). Better than Random: The Chance for Democratic Governance of The Advertising Supported Internet. Queensland University of Technology, Digital Media Research Centre Lunch Seminar. Aug. 2, 2016.
  • Shtern, J. (2016). The Interactor Commodity: The Politics of Social Media Advertising. University of Sydney Department of Media and Communications. Aug. 15, 2016.
  • Shtern, J. (2016). Social Media Activism Workshop. The Toronto Youth Cabinet Summit. Toronto City Hall. May 7, 2016.
  • Shtern, J. (2016). Better than Random: The Chance for Democratic Governance of the Advertising Supported Internet. The Datactive Speaker Series. University of Amsterdam. Feb. 17, 2016.
  • Shtern, J. (2015). “Networks of Exclusion: The Mediation of Cultural Diversity in Canada’s Broadcasting System”. Invited Keynote Talk at "International Conference on Media Diversity: Concept, Analysis, Policy", Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi India, Nov. 25, 2015.
  • Shtern, J. (2011). “Real Technological, Political and Social Barriers to the Global Free Flow of Information.” Invited intervention to “Media and Internet Policies behind the Great Firewall: A Global Conversation on Traditional and Digital Media Law and the Reality in China”. Invited/organized by Internews. Bangkok, Thailand. Jan. 7, 2011. 
  • Shtern, J. (2010). “The Least Imperfect Form of Global Governance Yet?Communication Activism and Multi-Stakeholder Governance of the Information Society”. Invited talk at the Yale University Law School, Information Society Project. Dec. 15, 2010.
  • Shtern, J. (2008). “Governing the Internet’’. Broadband: Gilberto Gil in Discussion with Montreal Activists. Invited intervention to a public forum organized by Media@McGill at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Montréal, Feb. 16, 2008.

Journal Publications