John D. H. Downing is a

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who has written extensively on Alternative Media and

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. He is

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of International Communication at the

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, 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 title
Some 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

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, 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. Radical Media on Google Books
/ref> * 2010 Editor, ''Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media'', Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.

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Faculty Listing for John Downing at SIUC
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