Dr. Shtern’s research and teaching focuses on transformations in the structure and governance of communication industries and creative work as they reorganize around globalization and digital technologies. Among other contributions, he is co-author of two books: Media Divides: Communication Right...
Dr. Shtern’s research and teaching focuses on transformations in the structure and governance of communication industries and creative work as they reorganize around globalization and digital technologies. Among other contributions, he is co-author of two books: Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada, and Digital Solidarities: Communication Policy and Multi-stakeholder Global Governance The Legacy of the World Summit on the Information Society. He founded and directs the Global Communication Governance Research Lab at Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) and is also the founding editor of Canadian Journal of Communication’s Policy Portal; a project that aims to innovate the academic publishing model and increase the impact of Canadian communications research by providing a venue for publishing peer-reviewed, quickly published writing on Canadian communication policy issues. He has served on review juries for SSHRC, FRQSC, the Open Society Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and has peer-reviewed for leading journals and publishers.