Publications


Books

Elmer, Greg, Charles Davis, Janine Marchessault & John McCullough. Eds. (2010). Locating Migrating Media, Lexington Press

Elmer, Greg & Opel, Andy. (2008). Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future, Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Press

Elmer, Greg & Gasher, Mike (eds.).(2005). Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting. Rowman & Littlefield.

Elmer, Greg (2004). Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Elmer, Greg (ed.). (2002). Critical Perspectives on the Internet. Rowman & Littlefield.

 

Articles and Book Chapters 
 
McKelvey, Fenwick. (2010)."Ends and Ways: The Algorithmic Politics of Network Neutrality, Global Media Journal.

Elmer, G. & G. Langlois. (under review). "Traffic Tags: Mapping Politics 2.0". 

Elmer, Greg, S. Sams, Y.S. Lim, H.W. Park. (2010). "Online Political Jurisdictions: Technological Considerations for Data Collection", WCU International Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1. National Science Foundation, Korea. 

Elmer, Greg. (2010). “Locative Networking”, Aether: The Journal of Media Geography. http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_05a/elmer.pdf

Langlois, G.; McKelvey, F.;  Elmer, G; & Werbin, K. (2009). Mapping Commercial Web 2.0 Worlds: Towards a New Critical Ontogenesis. Fibreculture 14.

Langlois, G; Elmer, G. McKelvey, F. Devereaux, Z. (2009). Networked Publics: the Double Articulation of Code and Politics on Facebook. Canadian Journal of Communication 34(3). pp. 415-434. 

Elmer, Greg. (2009). "Robots.txt: The Politics of Search Engine Exclusion", in The Spam Book: On Anomalous Objects of Digital Culture, J. Parikka and T. Sampson Eds, Hampton Press.

Langlois G. & G. Elmer. (2009). "Wikipedia leeches? The promotion of traffic through a collaborative web format", New Media & Society 11(5). http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/5/773

Elmer, Greg, Ganaele Langlois, Zach Devereaux, Fenwick McKelvey, Peter Malachy Ryan, Joanna Redden and Brady Curlew. (2009). Blogs I read: Partisanship and Party Loyalty in the Canadian Blogosphere.Journal of Information Technology & Politics 6(2). pp. 156 – 165.

Elmer, G. (2009). "The Balanced-Boredom Campaign", ESC: English Studies in Canada.

Elmer, Greg (2008). "Exclusionary Rules: The Politics of Protocols", Handbook of Internet Politics, London: Routledge.

Elmer, Greg. (2008). "Global Shot Locations in Los Angeles: The Promotion of New Cinematic Spaces", in Janet Wasko Ed., Cross Border Cultural Production.

Elmer, Greg, Ryan, P. M., Devereaux, Z., Langlois, G., Redden, J., & McKelvey, F. (2007). Election bloggers: Methods for determining political influence. First Monday, 12(4).

Elmer, Greg & Andy Opel. (2006). “Surviving the Inevitable Future:Preemption in an Age of Faulty Intelligence”, Cultural Studies, Vol.20, #3.

Elmer, Greg, Zach Devereaux, and David Skinner. (2006). "Disaggregating Online News" Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture.

Elmer, Greg. (2006). "Retooling the Web: Parsing the Links, Codes, and Commands of the Web World", Convergence , Vol. 12, #1.

Elmer, Greg. (2006). "U.S. Energy Policy: Mapping the Cyber-Stakeholders", The Communication Review .

Elmer, Greg & Andy Opel. (2006). “Pre-empting PanopticSurveillance: Surviving the Inevitable War on Terror”, in TheorizingSurveillance: The Panopticon and Beyond, D. Lyon    Ed., Cullompton,Willan Publishers. 

Elmer, Greg. (2006). "The Vertical Net", in Critical CybercultureStudies: New Directions, D. Silver et. als. (eds)., New York: NYUPress.

Devereaux, Zach & Stan Rueker (2006). "Online Issue Mapping of International News and Information Design", Human IT.
Langlois, Ganaele. (2005). "Networks and Layers: Technocultural Encodings of the World Wide Web", in Canadian Journal of Communication,, Vol. 30, #4.

 

Theses and Dissertations

Langlois, G.(2008). The Technocultural Dimensions of Meaning: Towards a Mixed Semiotics of the World Wide Web. Doctoral dissertation, Joint Programme in Communication and Culture, York/Ryerson Universities. 

McKelvey, Fenwick (2008). The Code and Politics of Drupal and The Pirate Bay: Alternative Horizons of Web2.0 MA Thesis, Joint Programme in Communication and Culture, York/Ryerson Universities.

Devereaux, Zachary (2005). MA Thesis "New Media and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis." Supervisor Dr. Wenran Jiang. University of Alberta, Department of Political Science.

 

Presentation Files

Elmer, G. (2008). Code Politics: The Permanent Campaign. MaRS Toronto. Powerpoint.