Greg Elmer

Who is Greg Elmer?

Greg Elmer

Greg Elmer is Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Professor of Radio TV Arts, and Director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Elmer is an internet researcher and documentary film maker whose work focuses on theories of surveillance, social protest, political communication, and media financialization.

Greg Elmer 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 and with Andy Opel 'Preempting Dissent', 'Infrastructure Critical' and The Permanent Campaign: New Media New Politics 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, Boston College, and Florida State University. Dr. Elmer is also adjunct Professor at York University. He previously served as a research director at the Webometrics Research Institute, Yeungnam University, South Korea.