Greg Elmer (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) is associate professor of Communication and Culture and Radio TV Arts at Ryerson University. Greg’s research and teaching focus on new media and politics, information and communication technologies, computer networks, and media globalization. Greg provides analysis and commentary for the media on the role of new media in Canadian and American politics. In the fall 2008 Greg worked with CBC-The National on its internet coverage of the Canadian federal election. In 2007 Greg joined Ottawa’s The Hill Times as a political columnist.

Greg’s scholarly publications have appeared in the peer reviewed journals First Monday, New Media & Society, Screen, Convergence, Journal of Information Technology and Politics and Scan. Greg has published a number of books: Prempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future, Andy Opel co-author (2008, ARP Press), Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy (2005: MIT Press), Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting, Mike Gasher co-editor (2005: Rowman and Littlefield), Critical Perspectives on the Internet (2002: Rowman and Littlefield), and Locating Migrating Media (in press, Lexington Press). Greg is currently working on a book entitled Dissagregating the Net (Rowman & Littlefield). He serves on the editorial board of New Media & Society, The Information Society, Space and Culture, and the American Communication Journal. Greg was previously visiting Faculty Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio (Amsterdam) and a Digital Cultural Institutions fellow at the Social Science Research Council in New York City.

His blog is Le Hot Blog de Toronto.

He is greg_elmer on Twitter.