Taylor Owen

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Taylor Owen is the Beaverbrook chair in Media, Ethics and Communication and an associate professor at McGill University, as well as founding director of the university’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy.

Taylor is an accomplished writer, researcher and lecturer whose work explores the intersection between digital technology, media and international affairs.

Before joining the faculty at McGill, Taylor was an assistant professor of digital media and global affairs at the University of British Columbia and a senior fellow at the Columbia Journalism School.

Prior to that, he was research director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. He has also held research positions at Yale University, London School of Economics and the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Taylor is the founder and editor of OpenCanada.org. He hosts The Globe and Mail’s Machines Like Us podcast and co-hosts TVO’s Screen Time podcast. Taylor is also the author of several books, including Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age and Journalism after Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State.

Taylor has a bachelor’s degree from Bishop’s University and a master’s degree in geography from the University of British Columbia. He completed a graduate followship in genocide studies at Yale University before earning a doctorate in international relations and geography from the University of Oxford.

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