John DH Downing
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John D. H. Downing is a communications scholar who has written extensively on Alternative Media
and Social Movements. He is Professor Emeritus of International Communication at the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University and currently affiliated to the Information & Media Studies Department at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is founding Director of the Global Media Research Center.
Alternative media
Alternative media are media which provide alternative information to the mainstream media in a given context, whether the mainstream media are commercial, publicly supported, or government-owned...
and Social Movements. He is Professor Emeritus of International Communication at the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University and currently affiliated to the Information & Media Studies Department at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is founding Director of the Global Media Research Center.
Education
- Ph.D. at London School of Economics and Political Science, 1974
- MSc Econ at London School of Economics and Political Science, 1968
- MA at Oxford University, 1968
Notable publications
- 1996 Internationalizing Media Theory: transition, power, culture: reflections on Russia, Poland and Hungary 1980-95. Sage, London, UK.
- 2001 (with Tamara Villarreal Ford, Genève Gil, Laura Stein): Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements. Sage, Thousand Oaks, California.
- 2010 Editor, Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.