John Downing

3.8k citations
52 papers · 2.0k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 19
Topics
Media Studies and Communication (8 papers)Rhetoric and Communication Studies (5 papers)Social Media and Politics (4 papers)

In The Last Decade

John Downing

47 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements20012026200920172001200400600

Peers

John Downing
Comparison fields: 5 of 100
  • Communication 1.0k
  • Sociology and Political Science 772
  • Gender Studies 244
  • Political Science and International Relations 234
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 152
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All Works

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Shift or Stasis| Questioning Global Communication Power — Introduction
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Global Financial Crisis Introduction| Media, Technology and the Global Financial Crisis
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Encyclopedia of social movement media
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5 7
6 70
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The Imperiled 'American': Visual Culture, Nationality and U.S. Foreign Policy
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8 2
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Grassroots Media: Establishing priorities for the years ahead.
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12 80
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Computers for social change and community organizing
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Radical media: the political experience of alternative communication
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About John Downing

John Downing is a scholar working on Communication, Philosophy and Business and International Management, having authored 52 papers that have together received 2.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Media Studies and Communication (8 papers), Rhetoric and Communication Studies (5 papers) and Social Media and Politics (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Communication (1.0k citations), Gender Studies (244 citations) and Sociology and Political Science (772 citations). John Downing has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Renate Valtin, Charles Husband, Elaine B. Kerr, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Annabelle Sreberny‐Mohammadi, Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Denis McQuail, Philip Schlesinger, Ellen Wartella and Carl Braun. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Journal of Communication.

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