Lab Panel @ 2017 Canadian Communications Association (CCA)

On June 2, 2017, the lab presented a series of papers in a panel called “Sponsored Authenticity – The Work of Social Media Content Creation in the Influence Economy”. Papers included: Governing Influence: An Eye-tracking Audit Of Instagram’s Sponsorship GuidelinesJeremy Shtern; Kieron Branche Content Creation And Ubiquitous Commerce: Influencers, Sponsorship, And The Content Pipeline Stephanie […]

Dr. Shtern Guest Lecture: University of Sydney

The interactor commodity: the politics of social media advertising and following the money in multi-stakeholder internet governance Associate Professor Jeremy Shtern (Ryerson) presents and reflects on results of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funded study of the relationships between internet users, social media firms and the advertising industry. He will […]

Dr. Shtern Guest Lecture: University of Amsterdam

Dr. Jeremy Shtern will give the second lecture in the DATACTIVE Speakers’ Series at University of Amsterdam. Jeremy will share with us the result of his project investigating the relationships between internet users, social media firms and the advertising industry. The DATACTIVE Speakers’ Series is hosted by the DATACTIVE project (https://data-activism.net), and organised by Frederike Kaltheuner and Becky Kazansky. The […]

WSIS+10

Dr. Shtern attended the ten year review of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) at the UN campus in New York. (Dec 15-16, 2015).