Stephen D Mcdowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 729401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen D Mcdowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdowell |
| SIGNATURE | MCDOWELL S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0537-9745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Secondary, security threat, and sage: Eulogy effect and the framing of female politicians as political martyrs in the elite press of South Asia
How do newspapers frame female politicians, and does this framing change after a female politician's death during an election campaign? Benazir Bhutto, who served two terms as prime minister of Pakistan, was assassinated in 2007 by a terrorist group. South Asian newspapers framed her as corrupt, inefficient, and a threat to national security before her death; however, the elite press characterized her as a martyr and sage posthumously. Using qual…
Vertical and horizontal communication on the Facebook pages of 2014 Brazilian presidential candidates
Social networking sites can be defined as online services that allow users to create public or private profiles and, among other things, create connections, share opinions, news, and affections. In 2014, many electors in Brazil were engaged in the presidential campaign on these virtual spaces as never before. In this context, the research question guiding this study is: What are the communication strategies employed by electors and the three main…
Media As Politics in South Asia
Introduction to the Special Forum on Monetization of User-Generated Content—Marx Revisited
The identification of core characteristics of labor and value creation in the information society is complicated, specifically in regard to user-generated content in social media websites and networks of audience labor. The issues related to user-generated content raise a number of definitional questions that are fundamental for theory development. Core elements of this debate include the definitions and significance of user-generated content, la…
The Taliban factor: Conflict in Afghanistan and elite South Asian newspapers
We analysed the editorial treatment of Taliban in the elite English press of India and Pakistan during January 2008 to December 2009. The study critically evaluated the relationship between elite press and the governments of the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan, and discussed how media framed Taliban in the context of foreign policies of the South Asian neighbours having important stakes in the conflict-ravaged Afghanistan. The central focus…
Broadband Redux: 2013
Global Corporate Power
Exploring the diverse ways that corporations affect the practices and structures of the global political economy, this innovative work addresses three fundamental questions: How can the corporation be most usefully conceptualized within the field of IPE? Does global governance succeed in constraining the power of multinational corporations? To what extent has the movement for corporate social responsibility been fruitful? The authors' rich, detai…
The Information Revolution and Developing Countries
The Information Revolution and Developing Countries. By Ernest J. Wilson, III. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. 431p. $49.95. This book provides a comprehensive theoretic framework explaining the “strategic restructuring” of government policies and institutions associated with policies promoting the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs). It also provides detailed case study chapters on Brazil, Ghana, and China, conclud…
Theory and Research in International Communication: An Historical and Institutional Account
Mutiny on the bandwidth: The semiotics of statehood in the internet domain name registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue
The internet has evolved to have a complex top-level domain name system, in which generic top-level domains such as .com and .org coexist with country-code top-level domains such as .UK and .JP. In this article, the history and significance of this hybrid naming system is examined, with specific attention directed to the manner in which it simultaneously reproduces claims to globalism, state sovereignty, and the presumption of United States hegem…
Global communication and the post-statism of cyberspace: A spatial constructivist view
Scholars from a range of perspectives question how the system of sovereign, territorial states is being impacted by the rise of cyberspace, a domain of information flows that apparently transcends state boundaries. Opinions range from those of neorealists who view these flows as posing a fundamental threat to state integrity to neoliberals who view them as one more opportunity for international cooperation. In this article, we hold that both of t…
What is broadband? Where is “rural”
Guardians of Culture, Development Communicators, or State Capitalists: A Comparative Analysis of Indian and Chinese Policy Responses to Broadcast, Cable and Satellite Television
This article compares television policy in India and China in the broadcast and DBS areas. First, the authors examine some of the arguments traditionally used to justify state ownership of media, namely development communication, nation-building and combating cultural imperialism. Second, they present a historical review of broadcast television policy in India and China. The authors argue that the governments of both India and China have assumed …
Television and Social Change in Rural India
Institutions, Incentives and Economic Reforms in India
PART ONE: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM India Fiscal Federalism - Kenneth Kletzer and Nirvikar Singh Political Economy and Issues for Reform Fragmented Legislatures and Electoral Systems - Bhaskar Dutta The Indian Experience The Political Economy of Privatisation in India - Anand Gupta Centre-state Relations in India and Brazil - Leslie Elliot Armijo Privatisation of Electricity and Banking PART TWO: FISCAL REFORM Reforming Indian Income Tax Enforc…
Enhancing Discourse on New Technology Within Higher Education
Universities face challenges in creating and nurturing reflective discourse about ICTs within higher education. Constraints to this discourse include time-space compression caused by ICTs, and changing perceptions of the university's role in an information society. In answering these challenges, a call is made for elevating the role of higher education in public knowledge formation. Such a move reduces the constraints of time pressures by valuing…
Globalization, Liberalization and Policy Change: A Political Economy of India's Communication Sector
List of Tables - Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Communications Policy Liberalization in India - The Conventional Neo-Liberal Account of Communications Policy Liberalization in India - Historical and Critical Theoretic Perspectives - From State-Led Planned Development to State-Guided Liberalization: Indian Political Economy in a Global Context - Declining Counter-Hegemony: India and International Services Libe…
Telecommunications, Cities, and Geographic and Social Space
Journal Article Telecommunications, Cities, and Geographic and Social Space Get access Stephen D. McDowell Stephen D. McDowell 1Florida State University, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 1997, Pages 136–143, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1997.tb02699.x Published: 07 February 2006
Globalization and policy choice: Television and audiovisual services policies in India
Policies shaping the production and distribution of electronic broadcasting or audiovisual services in India have undergone tremendous changes from the 1980s to the 1990s. The number of channels and programming carried by Doordarshan, the state broadcaster, has grown. Private companies both from within and outside India now produce television programming and distribute it through direct broadcast satellites or cable television systems. The domina…
The Decline of the License Raj: Indian Software Export Policies
Journal Article The Decline of the License Raj: Indian Software Export Policies Get access Stephen D. McDowell Stephen D. McDowell 1Stephen D. McDowell is a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications, Michigan State University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 4, December 1995, Pages 25–50, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00753.…
From Communications Policy to Trade and Industrial Policy: The Canadian State and Telecommunications Technology
Mutiny on the bandwidth: The semiotics of statehood in the internet domain name registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue
The internet has evolved to have a complex top-level domain name system, in which generic top-level domains such as .com and .org coexist with country-code top-level domains such as .UK and .JP. In this article, the history and significance of this hybrid naming system is examined, with specific attention directed to the manner in which it simultaneously reproduces claims to globalism, state sovereignty, and the presumption of United States hegem…
Guardians of Culture, Development Communicators, or State Capitalists: A Comparative Analysis of Indian and Chinese Policy Responses to Broadcast, Cable and Satellite Television
This article compares television policy in India and China in the broadcast and DBS areas. First, the authors examine some of the arguments traditionally used to justify state ownership of media, namely development communication, nation-building and combating cultural imperialism. Second, they present a historical review of broadcast television policy in India and China. The authors argue that the governments of both India and China have assumed …
Globalization and policy choice: Television and audiovisual services policies in India
Policies shaping the production and distribution of electronic broadcasting or audiovisual services in India have undergone tremendous changes from the 1980s to the 1990s. The number of channels and programming carried by Doordarshan, the state broadcaster, has grown. Private companies both from within and outside India now produce television programming and distribute it through direct broadcast satellites or cable television systems. The domina…
Introduction to the Special Forum on Monetization of User-Generated Content—Marx Revisited
The identification of core characteristics of labor and value creation in the information society is complicated, specifically in regard to user-generated content in social media websites and networks of audience labor. The issues related to user-generated content raise a number of definitional questions that are fundamental for theory development. Core elements of this debate include the definitions and significance of user-generated content, la…
The Taliban factor: Conflict in Afghanistan and elite South Asian newspapers
We analysed the editorial treatment of Taliban in the elite English press of India and Pakistan during January 2008 to December 2009. The study critically evaluated the relationship between elite press and the governments of the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan, and discussed how media framed Taliban in the context of foreign policies of the South Asian neighbours having important stakes in the conflict-ravaged Afghanistan. The central focus…
Global communication and the post-statism of cyberspace: A spatial constructivist view
Scholars from a range of perspectives question how the system of sovereign, territorial states is being impacted by the rise of cyberspace, a domain of information flows that apparently transcends state boundaries. Opinions range from those of neorealists who view these flows as posing a fundamental threat to state integrity to neoliberals who view them as one more opportunity for international cooperation. In this article, we hold that both of t…
What is broadband? Where is “rural”
Vertical and horizontal communication on the Facebook pages of 2014 Brazilian presidential candidates
Social networking sites can be defined as online services that allow users to create public or private profiles and, among other things, create connections, share opinions, news, and affections. In 2014, many electors in Brazil were engaged in the presidential campaign on these virtual spaces as never before. In this context, the research question guiding this study is: What are the communication strategies employed by electors and the three main…
From Communications Policy to Trade and Industrial Policy: The Canadian State and Telecommunications Technology
The Decline of the License Raj: Indian Software Export Policies
Journal Article The Decline of the License Raj: Indian Software Export Policies Get access Stephen D. McDowell Stephen D. McDowell 1Stephen D. McDowell is a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications, Michigan State University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 4, December 1995, Pages 25–50, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00753.…
Telecommunications, Cities, and Geographic and Social Space
Journal Article Telecommunications, Cities, and Geographic and Social Space Get access Stephen D. McDowell Stephen D. McDowell 1Florida State University, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 1997, Pages 136–143, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1997.tb02699.x Published: 07 February 2006
Globalization and policy choice: Television and audiovisual services policies in India
Policies shaping the production and distribution of electronic broadcasting or audiovisual services in India have undergone tremendous changes from the 1980s to the 1990s. The number of channels and programming carried by Doordarshan, the state broadcaster, has grown. Private companies both from within and outside India now produce television programming and distribute it through direct broadcast satellites or cable television systems. The domina…
Globalization, Liberalization and Policy Change: A Political Economy of India's Communication Sector
List of Tables - Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Communications Policy Liberalization in India - The Conventional Neo-Liberal Account of Communications Policy Liberalization in India - Historical and Critical Theoretic Perspectives - From State-Led Planned Development to State-Guided Liberalization: Indian Political Economy in a Global Context - Declining Counter-Hegemony: India and International Services Libe…
Enhancing Discourse on New Technology Within Higher Education
Universities face challenges in creating and nurturing reflective discourse about ICTs within higher education. Constraints to this discourse include time-space compression caused by ICTs, and changing perceptions of the university's role in an information society. In answering these challenges, a call is made for elevating the role of higher education in public knowledge formation. Such a move reduces the constraints of time pressures by valuing…
Institutions, Incentives and Economic Reforms in India
PART ONE: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM India Fiscal Federalism - Kenneth Kletzer and Nirvikar Singh Political Economy and Issues for Reform Fragmented Legislatures and Electoral Systems - Bhaskar Dutta The Indian Experience The Political Economy of Privatisation in India - Anand Gupta Centre-state Relations in India and Brazil - Leslie Elliot Armijo Privatisation of Electricity and Banking PART TWO: FISCAL REFORM Reforming Indian Income Tax Enforc…
Television and Social Change in Rural India
Theory and Research in International Communication: An Historical and Institutional Account
Mutiny on the bandwidth: The semiotics of statehood in the internet domain name registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue
The internet has evolved to have a complex top-level domain name system, in which generic top-level domains such as .com and .org coexist with country-code top-level domains such as .UK and .JP. In this article, the history and significance of this hybrid naming system is examined, with specific attention directed to the manner in which it simultaneously reproduces claims to globalism, state sovereignty, and the presumption of United States hegem…
Global communication and the post-statism of cyberspace: A spatial constructivist view
Scholars from a range of perspectives question how the system of sovereign, territorial states is being impacted by the rise of cyberspace, a domain of information flows that apparently transcends state boundaries. Opinions range from those of neorealists who view these flows as posing a fundamental threat to state integrity to neoliberals who view them as one more opportunity for international cooperation. In this article, we hold that both of t…
What is broadband? Where is “rural”
Guardians of Culture, Development Communicators, or State Capitalists: A Comparative Analysis of Indian and Chinese Policy Responses to Broadcast, Cable and Satellite Television
This article compares television policy in India and China in the broadcast and DBS areas. First, the authors examine some of the arguments traditionally used to justify state ownership of media, namely development communication, nation-building and combating cultural imperialism. Second, they present a historical review of broadcast television policy in India and China. The authors argue that the governments of both India and China have assumed …
Global Corporate Power
Exploring the diverse ways that corporations affect the practices and structures of the global political economy, this innovative work addresses three fundamental questions: How can the corporation be most usefully conceptualized within the field of IPE? Does global governance succeed in constraining the power of multinational corporations? To what extent has the movement for corporate social responsibility been fruitful? The authors' rich, detai…
The Information Revolution and Developing Countries
The Information Revolution and Developing Countries. By Ernest J. Wilson, III. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. 431p. $49.95. This book provides a comprehensive theoretic framework explaining the “strategic restructuring” of government policies and institutions associated with policies promoting the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs). It also provides detailed case study chapters on Brazil, Ghana, and China, conclud…
Broadband Redux: 2013
Introduction to the Special Forum on Monetization of User-Generated Content—Marx Revisited
The identification of core characteristics of labor and value creation in the information society is complicated, specifically in regard to user-generated content in social media websites and networks of audience labor. The issues related to user-generated content raise a number of definitional questions that are fundamental for theory development. Core elements of this debate include the definitions and significance of user-generated content, la…
The Taliban factor: Conflict in Afghanistan and elite South Asian newspapers
We analysed the editorial treatment of Taliban in the elite English press of India and Pakistan during January 2008 to December 2009. The study critically evaluated the relationship between elite press and the governments of the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan, and discussed how media framed Taliban in the context of foreign policies of the South Asian neighbours having important stakes in the conflict-ravaged Afghanistan. The central focus…
Media As Politics in South Asia
Vertical and horizontal communication on the Facebook pages of 2014 Brazilian presidential candidates
Social networking sites can be defined as online services that allow users to create public or private profiles and, among other things, create connections, share opinions, news, and affections. In 2014, many electors in Brazil were engaged in the presidential campaign on these virtual spaces as never before. In this context, the research question guiding this study is: What are the communication strategies employed by electors and the three main…
Secondary, security threat, and sage: Eulogy effect and the framing of female politicians as political martyrs in the elite press of South Asia
How do newspapers frame female politicians, and does this framing change after a female politician's death during an election campaign? Benazir Bhutto, who served two terms as prime minister of Pakistan, was assassinated in 2007 by a terrorist group. South Asian newspapers framed her as corrupt, inefficient, and a threat to national security before her death; however, the elite press characterized her as a martyr and sage posthumously. Using qual…
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