John D. H. Downing is a

communications Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether Intention, unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not onl ...

scholar A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a termina ...

who has written extensively on

Alternative Media Alternative media are media sources that differ from established forms of media, such as mainstream media or mass media, in terms of their content, production, or distribution.Downing, John (2001). ''Radical Media''. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publica ...

and

Social Movements A social movement is either a loosely or carefully organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of ...

. He is

Professor Emeritus ''Emeritus/Emerita'' () is an honorary title granted to someone who retirement, retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus". ...

of International Communication at the College of Mass Communication & Media Arts,

Southern Illinois University Southern Illinois University is a system of public universities in the southern region of the U.S. state of Illinois. Its headquarters is in Carbondale, Illinois. Board of trustees The university is governed by the nine member SIU Board of T ...

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 The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public university, public research university in London, England, and a member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the University ...

, 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

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

, 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.

References

External links

Faculty Listing for John Downing at SIUC
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of the London School of Economics Southern Illinois University Carbondale faculty Journalism academics {{academic-bio-stub