FACULTY

Biography

Ronald J. Deibert (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is associate professor of political science at the U of T, specializing in media, technology, and world politics, and Director of the Citizen Lab which sponsors research at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics.

Professor Deibert was a Ford Foundation Research Scholar of Information and Communication Technologies (2002-2004). He has written Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communications in World Order Transformation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997 ), and is presently one of the principal investigators of the OpenNet Initiative, a collaborative research project among the U of T, Cambridge University (UK), and the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School into Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide. He is frequently interviewed by radio, television and the print media on issues relating to the Internet, space technology, arms control and international relations. Professor Deibert has co-produced three television documentary series.

Keywords
Communication technologies and international relations, global civil society, and media theory