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John DH Downing
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 & Media Arts, Southern Illinois University and currently affiliated with Northwestern University in Qatar. He is founding Director of the Global Media Research Center. Education * Ph.D. at London School of Economics and Political Science, 1974. Thesis titleSome aspects of the presentation of industrial relations and race relations in some major British news media * 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, Cali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communications
Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inquiry studying them. There are many disagreements about its precise definition. John Peters argues that the difficulty of defining communication emerges from the fact that communication is both a universal phenomenon and a specific discipline of institutional academic study. One definitional strategy involves limiting what can be included in the category of communication (for example, requiring a "conscious intent" to persuade). By this logic, one possible definition of communication is the act of developing meaning among entities or groups through the use of sufficiently mutually understood signs, symbols, and semiotic conventions. An important distinction is between verbal communication, which happens through the use of a language, and non ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
