Education
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst


Greg Elmer is Bell Globalmedia Research Chair in the School of Radio TV Arts at Ryerson University. He has previously held faculty appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, Boston College, and Florida State University. Greg is co-editor of Space and Culture: An International Journal of Social Spaces (Sage) and is on the editorial board of Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies and The Information Society.

Research Interests
media and cultural theory, media surveillance and profiling, Internet studies, computer network analysis, the geo-politics of TV/film industries

Selected Pulblications

Elmer, Greg & Mike Gasher. (eds.) (2005). Relocating 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, Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield.

Elmer, Greg. (2003). "A Diagram of Panoptic Surveillance", New Media & Society, Vol. 5, #2, pp. 231-247.

Elmer, Greg. (2002). "The Trouble with the Canadian Body-Double: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting", Screen, Vol. 43, # 4, pp. 84-94.

Elmer, Greg. (2002). "Consumption in the Network Age: Solicitation, Automation, and Networking", Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 8, #1, pp. 86-99.