Books by Greg Elmer
Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data
Infrastructure Critical: Sacrifice at Toronto's G8/20 Summit
Contracting Out Hollywood: Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting
Critical Perspectives on the Internet
Profiling Machines: Mapping the Personal Information Economy
Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future
Film and Videos by Greg Elmer
Papers by Greg Elmer
Canadian Journal of Communication, 2019
This commentary offers some lessons learned from recent attempts by the author to produce and fun... more This commentary offers some lessons learned from recent attempts by the author to produce and fund documentary films in the university setting. The article pays particular attention to how crowdfunding can be utilized by first-time media producers. RESUME Ce commentaire propose quelques leçons apprises par l'auteur à la suite de tentatives récentes de réaliser et de financer des documentaires dans un milieu universitaire. L'article porte une attention particulière à la manière dont les néophytes en matière de production audiovisuelle peuvent recourir au sociofinancement.
This article investigates the impact that the initial financialization of the Wireless Telegraph ... more This article investigates the impact that the initial financialization of the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company (Marconi) had upon its core business model, its relationship with its workers, government, and the bourgeoning investor class (1897–1905). Drawing upon primary sources from the Marconi corporate archives at the University of Oxford, the article investigates how the company used the new financial disclosure requirements of the day to deploy a compelling publicity campaign for wireless communications.
Consumption in the Network Age: Solicitation, Automation, and Networking
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2002
As the mediated world becomes increasingly cluttered with commercial appeals, corporate America h... more As the mediated world becomes increasingly cluttered with commercial appeals, corporate America has responded with a wholesale downsizing of jingles, slogans, and logos. For example, where there was once Kentucky Fried Chicken, there is now only KFC. Where General Hospital and The Young and the Restless once graced our screens, there is now simply GH and Y&R. Similarly, from the more sublime, yet increasingly more pervasive sphere of advertising, we now find logos, trademarks and miniaturised symbols ...
Discriminating technologies: personal information in an age of computer profiling
The doctoral dissertation critically investigates the processes, sites and technologies of consum... more The doctoral dissertation critically investigates the processes, sites and technologies of consumer profiling. Technologically speaking, the dissertation focuses on the means by which individual consumption patterns and histories (demographic and psychographic data) are automatically solicited into computerized databases and networks. In addition to providing a historical perspective on consumer profiling or solicitation technologies (from product registration cards and mail-in coupons to point-of-sale ...
Canadian Journal of Communication, Aug 4, 2009
Abstract: Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conce... more Abstract: Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conceptualizes the deployment of issue publics (Lippmann, 1993; Marres, 2005) on Facebook. We argue that issue publics on Facebook come into being through a specific set of double articulations of code and politics that link and reshape informational processes, communicational constraints and possibilities, and political practices in different and sometimes contradictory ways. Using Maurizio Lazzarato's exploration of immaterial ...
“Blogs I Read”: Partisanship and Party Loyalty in the Canadian Political Blogosphere
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Jan 1, 2009
ABSTRACT This article builds upon current hyperlink mapping research to determine the degree of p... more ABSTRACT This article builds upon current hyperlink mapping research to determine the degree of party loyalty and partisanship in the Canadian political blogosphere. The article develops a hyperlink-based method of determining blogger endorsements as a means of tracking cross-party recommendations. The article concludes that bloggers affiliated with the governing Conservative Party of Canada exhibit the most cohesive ideological and party loyal set of blog recommendation links.
Policing Race and Space: Prejudice, Policies, and Racial Profiling
Space and Culture, 2001
Going Public: Accounting for/in the Internet
Journal of Critical Studies of Business & Society, Vol 4., Nov 2013
This paper investigates the accounting practices that gave rise to economic and communicative for... more This paper investigates the accounting practices that gave rise to economic and communicative forms of 'going public'. The paper turns to the early industrial capitalist conventions of accounting (late 19th century) to understand how individual workers, consumers, and owners required new rules and regulations to manage the separation of ownership from management. The paper focuses on the practices and language that governed such "impersonal" relationships to capital -- a concept which is then applied to the contemporary social network age where users are called upon to 'go public' and often on social media platforms like Facebook.
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