Infoscape Research Team
Submitted by admin on 8 October, 2006 - 17:02.
Dr. Greg Elmer, (gelmer at ryerson dot ca) Infoscape Director & Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Ryerson University
Greg Elmer (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) is associate professor of Communication and Culture and Radio TV Arts at Ryerson University and lead international faculty of the World Class University Politics 2.0 project at Yeungnam University, R. of Korea. 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 . The CBC-Infoscape partnership resulted in a Gemini award for best cross platform project (2009). In 2007 Greg joined Ottawa's The Hill Times as a political columnist and blogger.
Greg's scholarly publications have appeared in a range of peer reviewed media studies journals. 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), Critical Perspectives on the Internet (2002: Rowman and Littlefield), Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting, Mike Gasher co-editor (2005: Rowman and Littlefield), and Locating Migrating Media (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), the National center for E-Social Science at the University of Manchester, and a Digital Cultural Institutions fellow at the Social Science Research Council in New York City. He is currently Cultures of the Digital Economy research fellow at Anglia Ruskin University and a senior faculty fellow at the London School of Economics.
Greg's homepage and blog can be found here.
Dr. Ganaele Langlois (ganalanglois at gmail.com), Associate Director and Assistant Professor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Ganaele is Assistant Professor of Communication in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Infoscape Research Lab in 2008-2009. She completed her Ph.D. in May 2008 in the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture at York/Ryerson Universities. Her research focuses on tracing how the language and cultural practices of the Web are shaped by technocultural processes. Her work is influenced by Deleuze and Guattari, software studies, and Actor-network theory. A list of her publications can be found here.
Dr. Isabel Pedersen, Research Associate, Associate Professor of Professional Communication, Ryerson University
Isabel Pedersen is an Associate Professor of Professional Communication
in the Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University. She
is also affiliated with the Graduate Programme in Communication &
Culture, a partnership of Ryerson University & York University.
Her research deals with the rhetoric and semiotics of emergent,
reality-shifting media including wearable interfaces, mobile
interfaces, and future nano-technological devices. Her recent
publications appear in Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools (Eds.
Byron Hawk, David Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo), International Journal of
the Humanities, Semiotica, and Continuum: Journal of Media &
Cultural Studies.
She has given papers on conceptual interface design at several
conferences including the National Communication Association
Convention, the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest
Group on documentation (SIGDOC) conference, the Association of Internet
Researchers, the Computers & Writing Conference, and the Immersive
Worlds Conference.
Zach Devereaux (zdevereaux at gmail.com), Research Associate
Zach holds a BA in History from the University of Alberta, completed a year of graduate coursework in Communications Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Alberta. Zach's MA thesis was entitled "New Media and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis." Currently Zach is a 4th year PhD candidate in the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture at Ryerson / York. Zach's research pursuits are based on new media research methodologies and online issue network mapping. Zach's PhD dissertation research focuses on interrogating the "object-oriented democratic politics" of the Harper minority government. Aside from studying code politics at the Infoscapelab, Zach has also recently carried out research into issue and policy networks around gun control, nanotechnology, obesity and tobacco.
A. Brady Curlew, Research Associate
Brady is a PhD candidate in Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities. He is currently using the methods of critical cultural studies and political economy to analyze user-generated content on the internet and the user modification of digital pop culture artifacts, with a focus on the "modding" of digital games. A subset of Brady's research explores how such modifications affect and are affected by both state and non-governmental media policy change. He is also a research assistant on York University's Canadian arts group content management & intellectual property licensing initiative known as Artmob.
Fenwick McKelvey, Research Associate
Fenwick McKelvey is a second-year PhD Candidate (Fall '08) in the Communication & Culture program researching digital political communication, digital research methods, and Internet politics. His dissertation charts the politics of traffic management software – how it controls information and how it meets resistance. A graduate of the MA program in Communication & Culture, his MA work explored the code and politics of web2.0 by studying The Pirate Bay and Drupal. He holds a BA with Honours in Multidisciplinary Studies focusing on Political Science, International Development Studies, and Spanish. From 2004 to 2005, Fenwick completed an internship with Human Rights Internet, working with a Women's rights organization in Rosario, Argentina. He has also created websites for various organizations, including Re-create, Leonard Preyra, MLA for Halifax Citadel, Students Coalition Against War, and Instituto de Genero, Derecho y Desarrollo.
Steven James May, Research Associate
Steven James May is a Ryerson Graduate Scholarship recipient currently in his first year of the joint Ph. D. Program in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University and York University. His research interests include user -generated content, privacy, surveillance, cybertorts, and multiplatform documentary production. Steven holds a B.A. (Honours) in Administrative Studies from Trent University and a B.A (Honours) in Radio & Television Arts from Ryerson University. His M.A. in Media Production from Ryerson University yielded the Web 2.0 media literacy project "Weekend Pictures" that explores the impact of user-generated content on privacy. Steven is also an accomplished documentary filmmaker and has had his work broadcast on CBC, CTV, and Sex TV: The Channel.
Sohini Bhattacharya, Research Associate
Sohini Bhattacharya is presently in the first year of the joint Ph.D. Program in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University and York University. She is currently a recipient of the Ryerson Graduate Scholarship and her research interests include user-generated content on YouTube.com and other blogospheres, specifically how emerging technologies are being used by politicians in developing countries such as India, to substitute and/or support the traditional media outlets, during an election season or other major politically motivated events. In addition to an M.S. degree in Communication from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Sohini holds a B.A. & M.A. (Honours) degree in English Literature from Calcutta University, India. Her other achievements include the Dr. Jung Sook Lee Memorial Endowed Scholarship for International Students and a "Top Graduate Paper" award from the 2008 Louisiana Communication Associaion Conference.
Paul Vet, Head Programmer and Research Associate
Paul is a student in the Media Production program at Ryerson Unversity. He is interested in New Media and its resulting cultural and political effects. For his current research he is applying his B. Math in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, to his studies in media to analyze the privacy implications of social networking.
Darren Sustar, Video producer
Past Members
Peter Malachy Ryerson (2006-2010)
Dr. Kenneth Werbin (2008-2010)
Elvira Prior, Research Associate (2007-2009)
Dr. Andres Zelman (2005-2008)
Patricio Davila, Research Associate (2007-2009)
Mark Brosens, Research Associate (2007-2008)
Roberta Buiani, Research Associate (2005-2006)
Sneha Patel, Research and Design Intern (2005-2006)
Yukari Seko, Research Associate (2006-2008)
Rob King, Infoscape Research Associate and Programmer (2005-2006)
