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Greg Elmer

Bell Globalmedia Research Chair, Professor
https://infoscapelab.ca/ (external link) 

Scholarly, Research and Creative Projects

Research: 

How social media platforms have changed and reconfigured political communications and electoral campaigns, as well as research investigating the role that media and social media play in organizing and reporting on political protest and dissent.

Currently writing a book on the financial histories of social media companies. 

Creative practice: 

  • Digital media research software and platform development for researchers and content producers
  • Digital media producer and interactive and creative commons documentary film-maker
  • Director of Preempting Dissent (2014)
  • The Canadian Delegation (2010)

Author/co-authorship:

  • The Permanent Campaign: New Media, New Politics , with G. Langlois & F. McKelvey (Peter Lang, 2012), Infrastructure Critical: Sacrifice at Toronto’s G8/20 Summit, with A. Renzi (ARP, 2014)
  • Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future, with A. Opel (ARP, 2008), & Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy. (MIT press, 2004)