Ronald Deibert
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Ronald J. Deibert (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto, specializing in media, technology, and world politics, and a Ford Foundation Research Scholar of Information and Communication Technologies (2002-2004). He is the author of the book Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communications in World Order Transformation (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997). He is also the director of the Citizen Lab, based at the University of Toronto (http://www.citizenlab.org/). The Citizen Lab sponsors research at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics.
He has published articles on topics relating to Internet politics, civil society and global politics, earth remote sensing and space policy, and social science epistemology in the journals International Organization, The Review of International Studies, Journal of Social Issues, International Studies Perspectives, Intelligence and National Security, and The European Journal of International Relations. He currently serves on the editorial board of the journals International Studies Perspectives, Astropolitics, The Journal of Environmental Peace, and Explorations in Media Ecology.
He is a co-founder and one of the principal investigators with the OpenNet Initiative, a project of the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge University, and Oxford Internet Institute.
He is the principal investigator of the psiphon censorship circumvention project.