Infoscape Research Team

Dr. Greg Elmer [1], (gelmer at ryerson dot ca) Infoscape Director & Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Ryerson University

Greg Elmer (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) is associate professor in the School of Media and the graduate program in Communication & Culture at Ryerson University [2]. Greg's research and teaching focus on new media and politics, surveillance studies, software studies, collaborative media making, and media globalization.

Greg has participated in a number of international projects, including most recently a research study of internet politics in S. Korea. For a number of years he provided internet research support with the Soros, Ford and Govcomorg Foundations to NGOs in eastern Europe, including Ukraine, Hungary & Poland.

Greg was previously visiting Faculty Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio [3] (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 [4] in New York City. He was most recently Cultures of the Digital Economy research fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, senior faculty fellow at the London School of Economics, and visiting research professor at Yeungnam University, South Korea.

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 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on its internet coverage of the Canadian federal election [5] . The CBC-Infoscape partnership resulted in a Gemini award for best cross platform project (2009). Greg has also contributed to election coverage for Global TV News and The Hill Times.

Greg's scholarly publications have appeared in a range of peer reviewed journals. Greg has published a number of books: Prempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future [6], Andy Opel co-author (2008, ARP Press), Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy [7] (2005: MIT Press), Critical Perspectives on the Internet [8] (2002: Rowman and Littlefield), Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting [9], Mike Gasher co-editor (2005: Rowman and Littlefield), and Locating Migrating Media (2010: Lexington Press). He serves on the editorial board of New Media & Society [10], The Information Society [11], Space and Culture, Television and New Media, Topia, and the American Communication Journal [12]. 

Greg's homepage and blog can be found here [13]. 

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 [14].  

Dr. Alessandra Renzi, Ryerson Post-Doctoral Fellow

Alessandra has recently completed a PhD on Telestreet, an Italian network of pirate television producers at OISE, University of Toronto, in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies. Her work focuses on the development of radical research methodologies and collaborative creative practices that overcome the boundaries of representation to strengthen and relay the links between academia and activist communities. She is involved in various media projects like An Interference Project: Wait! (http://interferencewait.wordpress.com [15] ), the pirate television channel Insutv in Naples, Italy (www.insutv.it [16]) and the Toronto Media Coop (http://2010.mediacoop.ca [17]). You can find some of Alessandra’s writings in Boler, M. (ed) Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT Press, 2008), Shuler, D. (ed) Liberating Voices A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution, (MIT Press, 2008), Eckardt, F. et al. (eds.) 

MEDIACITY
 Situations, Practices and Encounters, (Franke & Timme, 2008), as well as in Fuse Magazine, Inchiesta and Inflexions.  

Dr. Robert Latham [18] (visiting faculty fellow, Associate Professor of Political Science, York University)

Prior to becoming director of the York Centre for International Security Studies, Latham was a visiting fellow at the Transnationalism Project at the University of Chicago. Prior to that he served for over eleven years as a program director and officer at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), managing the Program on Information Technology & International Cooperation. Previous to that he directed the Program on Global Security & Cooperation and the SSRC–MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace & Security. During his time with SSRC he produced numerous refereed publications and books in areas such as alliance politics, information technology and security, globalization, diplomatic history, human rights, international governance, intervention and transnationalism. Among his publications are The Liberal Moment: Modernity, Security and the Making of International Order (1997), Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global-Local Networks of Power (co-edited with Thomas Callaghy and Ron Kassimer, 2002) and Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm (co-edited with Saskia Sassen, 2005).

Latham’s research interests include global security, transnational relations, communications and international politics, human security, global governance, North/South conflict, and democracy and security.

Dr. Joanna Redden, SSHRC post-doc.

Joanna recently completed a PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work considers how news coverage of poverty, both news content and the processes involved in the generation of news, influence responses to poverty in Canada and the United Kingdom. She focuses in particular on how two contemporary forces influence working practices and news content: neoliberalism and the increasing use of digital technologies. Joanna is presently developing her next project which will investigate how media content and tools influence politicians and civil servants in their development of immigration politics and policy. Joanna has also worked in the fields of politics and media. You can find Joanna’s published work in Fenton, N. (ed.) New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in a Digital Age (Sage, 2009), Loader, B. and Mercea, D. (eds.) Social Media and Democracy: Innovations in Participatory Politics (Routledge, 2012), and in Information, Communication & Society (2011).

Fenwick McKelvey [19], 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 [20] and Drupal [21]. 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 [22], Leonard Preyra, MLA for Halifax Citadel [23], Students Coalition Against War [24], and Instituto de Genero, Derecho y Desarrollo [25].

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Dr. Matthew Tiessen, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Matthew Tiessen received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Theory and Visual Art from the University of Alberta. Prior to starting at the Infoscape Research Lab Matthew was teaching in the area of science and technology studies, digital culture, and visual culture in the Communication Studies department at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also an exhibiting oil painter and illustrator. Dr. Tiessen’s research operates within a nexus that includes theories of affect, technology, critical finance studies, virtuality, and ethics. He is currently working on completing publications for Theory, Culture & Society and Surveillance and Society. His writing has been published in: CTheory, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Space and Culture, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina (2008, University of Georgia Press), and Ecologies of Affect: Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope (2010, Wilfrid LaurierUniversity Press).

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 [26]" 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.

Erica Biddle-Stavrakos, Research Associate

Paul Vet, Head Programmer and Research Associate

Paul is a graduate of 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.

Jessica Thorp, lab manager & Research Associate

Jessica is a MA student student in the joint Communication and Culture program at Ryerson University and York University. Jessica completed her BA in Politics and Governance at Ryerson University in May 2009. Her research interests include subculture and fan communities online, concepts of friendship in social media, and online ethnography. In summer 2009 Jessica completed a policy research internship with the Nordicity Group, culminating in the co-authoring an issues discussion paper calling for the development of a national digital strategy in Canada. She has also worked as a research assistant for environmental initiative Green Screen Toronto and Corporate Knights magazine.  

Michelle Ewing, Research Assistant

Michelle Ewing is an Undergrad student in the Radio and Television Arts program at Ryerson University.  She has been awarded a spot on the Dean's List for an outstanding grade point average after each year.  In addition to working at the Infoscape Research Lab, she interns at 102.1 The Edge, a new rock station in Toronto that is part of Corus Entertainment."

 

Past Members

Dr. Isabel Pedersen [27], Research Associate, Associate Professor of Professional Communication, Ryerson University

Taina Boucher, visiting researcher (2011), Presently PhD student, U. of Oslo

Zach Devereaux, founding research associate (2006-2010), Presently, chief analyst, Nexalogy Environics

Dr. Brady Curlew, research associate (2006-2010)

Sohini Bhattacharya, research associate (2009-2010)

Peter Malachy Ryerson (2006-2010), Presently, instructional designer, Grant MacEwan University

Dr. Kenneth Werbin (2008-2010), Presently, assistant professor of communication, Wilfred Laurier U, Brantford

Elvira Prior, Research Associate (2007-2009)

Dr. Andres Zelman (2005-2008)

Patricio Davila, Research Associate (2007-2009), presently, adjunct professor of design, OCADU

David Smith (2007-2009), presently, assistant professor of communication, McMaster University

Mark Brosens, Research Associate (2007-2008) -- Presently, producer for TV Ontatio's The Agenda

Roberta Buiani, Research Associate (2005-2006)

Sneha Patel, Research and Design Intern (2005-2006)

Dr. Joanna Redden, Research Associate (2005-2007) -- presently, PhD student, Goldsmith's College, U. of London

Yukari Seko, Research Associate (2006-2008)

Neil Thomson, Research Associate (2005-2006) 

Rob King, Infoscape Research Associate and Programmer (2005-2006)