Bio
Jeremy Packer received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 2001. Before coming to the University of Toronto, he was an Assistant Professor at Penn State University, and both Associate Professor and Professor at North Carolina State University. He joined the Faculty of Information and the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto in 2016.
Professor Packer investigates the historical and political dimensions of media technologies. In particular, his research investigates how the automation, militarization, and mobilization of media technologies are used for governance, surveillance, and political control.
Teaching
INF2303H Special Topics in Information: Critical Game Studies 0.5 Credits
INF3009H Theory and History of Media Technology 0.5 Credits
Supervision
Current
Paula Nunez de Villavicencio
Supervisor: Jeremy Packer
Arun Jacob
Supervisor: Jeremy Packer
Past
- Chelsea Hampton
- Alex Monea
- Daniel Sutko
- Kathleen Oswald
- Shayne Pepper
- Josh Reeves
- Dawn Shepherd