Chris Tenove

Chris Tenove is a Research Associate and Instructor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Assistant Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI), University of British Columbia. He has held teaching and research positions in UBC’s Political Science department and Global Reporting Centre, and as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics and the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Dr. Tenove conducts research in the fields of political theory, political communication, and international relations. At CSDI, he oversees research and policy engagement projects on topics including platform governance and democracy. He has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the challenges that digital media pose to democracy and human rights, including in journals such as Political Communication, the International Journal of Press/Politics, and Political Research Quarterly. His policy reports have tackled topics such as social media regulation, artificial intelligence in elections, and responses to online harassment