Jeremy Shtern
Chair, Creative Industries Director, Global Communication Governance Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University Professor The Creative School School of Creative Industries Toronto, Ontario jshtern@torontomu.ca
Expert In
Communication policy
Communication rights
Creative labour
Digital technologies
Globalization and communication
Internet and digital platform governance
Internet governance
Political economy of media
Theme: Arts, culture and creativity
Theme: Democracy, justice and governance
Theme: Transformative technology
Bio/Research
Dr. Shtern joined the TMU faculty from the University of Ottawa in 2013, as the first full time faculty member hired in the School of Creative Industries. Among other contributions, he is co-author of two books: Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada, and Digit...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Shtern joined the TMU faculty from the University of Ottawa in 2013, as the first full time faculty member hired in the School of Creative Industries. 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 is also author or co-author on a dozen journal articles and book chapters and has made more than 30 paper presentations at scholarly conferences. Dr. Shtern's list of invited guest lectures includes visits to the Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and a Keynote at a 2014 International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, at JMI in New Delhi, India. Professor Shtern is an innovative and entrepreneurial researcher whose research adds value to TMU and provides opportunities for its students. Since completing his SSHRC and FRQSC funded PhD and post-docs, Dr. Shtern’s research program has been supported with more than $250,000 in external research funding.
Dr. Shtern founded and directs the Global Communication Governance Research Lab at TMU. Among other academic leadership service appointments, he is vice-chair of the Communication Policy and Technology section of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Communications Association (CCA). Jeremy has served on review juries for SSHRC, FRQSC, the Open Society Foundation and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and has peer-reviewed for leading journals and publishers. He teaches undergraduate courses in the Ryerson School of Creative Industries and regularly teaches and supervises in the York/TMU Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture.
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Dr. Shtern founded and directs the Global Communication Governance Research Lab at TMU. Among other academic leadership service appointments, he is vice-chair of the Communication Policy and Technology section of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Communications Association (CCA). Jeremy has served on review juries for SSHRC, FRQSC, the Open Society Foundation and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and has peer-reviewed for leading journals and publishers. He teaches undergraduate courses in the Ryerson School of Creative Industries and regularly teaches and supervises in the York/TMU Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture.
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