John D. H. 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 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, 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.