Project Administration
Dwayne Winseck | Co-director
Carleton University
Dwayne Winseck is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, with a cross appointment at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University. His research interests include the political economy of telecommunications, the Internet and media as well as communications and media history, theory, policy and regulation. He is also the Director of the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project, a project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant.
Dwayne’s research, data and views on media concentration and communication, media and Internet industry and policy issues are well known and have been solicited or cited widely in the scholarly literature and by the Parliament of Canada, Canadian Senate, Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Committee, World Trade Organization, the International Telecommunications Union, amongst others. Dwayne also writes regular op-eds on these topics for the press and other outlets, including as a regular columnist for the Globe and Mail.
His co-authored book with Robert Pike Communication and Empire: Media, Markets and Globalization, 1860-1930 won the Canadian Communication Association’s book-of-the-year prize in 2008.
Selected publications
Books
2007 Winseck, D. & Pike, R. Communication and Empire: Media Power and Globalization, 1860-1930. Durnham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. (Winner of the Canadian Communication Association’s G. J. Robinson book of the year award)
1998 ReConvergence: A political economy of telecommunications in Canada. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.
Edited Volumes
2012 Winseck, D. & Jin, D. Y. (eds.). Political Economies of Media: the Transformation of the Global Media Industries. London: Bloomsbury.
1997 Bailie, M. & Winseck, D. (eds.). Democratizing communication?: Comparative perspectives on information and power. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.
1997 Sreberny-Mohammadi, A., Winseck, D., McKenna, J. & Boyd-Barrett, O.
(eds.). Media in Global Context. London, UK: Edward Arnold.
Selected Peer Reviewed Articles & Book Chapters
2022 Winseck, D. & Bester, K. (2022/forthcoming). Regulation for a More Democratic Internet: Lessons from 19th & 20th Centuries Antitrust and Communications Regulation. In T. Flew, J. Thomas & J. Holt (eds.). Sage Handbook of the Digital Media Economy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2022 Winseck, D. (2022/forthcoming). The Broken Internet and Platform Regulation: Promises and Perils. In T. Flew, F. Martin & R. Gillett (eds.). Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
2022 Winseck D. (2022/forthcoming). Curran & Seaton’s Power without Responsibility: Legacy and lessons. In M. Klontzas (ed.). James Curran & Jean Seaton’s Power without Responsibility: Critical Reflections. London: Routledge.
2020 “Vampire Squids”, the Broken Internet and Platform Regulation. Journal of Digital Media and Policy, 11(3), 241-282.
2020 Schafer, V., Fickers, A., Howarth, D., Musiani, F., Pohle, J. & Winseck, D. (2020) The internet and the European market from a multidisciplinary perspective: a “round-doc” discussion, Internet Histories, DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2020.173960.
2019 Wilkinson, S. & Winseck, D. Whither Journalism? Crisis or Wrenching Change in Journalistic Work in Canada? Canadian Journal of Communication (forthcoming) (author split 70/30).
2018 Fitzgerald, S. & Winseck, D. Media Economics: Missed Opportunities, Mischaracterizations, Review Essay on Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew and Adam Swift’s (2015) Media Economics (Palgrave: London). The Political Economy of Communication, 6(1), 83-97.
2018 Jia, LR & Winseck, D. The political economy of Chinese internet companies: Financialization, concentration and capitalization. The International Communication Gazette, 80(1), 30-59.
2017 Winseck, D. & Pooley, J. A Curious Tale of Economics and Common
Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel. International Journal of Communication, 11, 2702-2733.
2017 The Geopolitical Economy of the Global Internet Infrastructure. Journal of Information Policy, 7, 228-267.
2016 Reconstructing the Political Economy of Communication for the Digital Media Age. The Political Economy of Communication, 4(2), 73-114.
2011 Submarine Telegraphs, Telegraph News, and the Global Financial Crisis of 1873. Journal of Cultural Economy: Special Issue on Financial Crises edited by M. Poovey, 5(2), 197-212.
2010 Winseck, D. Financialization and the “Crisis of the Media”: The Rise and Fall of (Some) Media Conglomerates in Canada. Canadian Journal of Communication, 35(3), 1-28.
2009 Winseck, D. & Pike, R. The Global Media and the Empire of Liberal Internationalism, circa 1910-1930. Media History, 2009, 15(1), 31-54. (70/30 contribution)
2008 Information Operations ‘Blowback’: Communication, Propaganda and
Surveillance in the Global War on Terrorism. International Communication Gazette, 70(6), 419-441.
2008 Media Ownership and the Consolidation of Media Markets. Sociology Compass, 2(1), 34-47.
2002 Illusions of perfect information and fantasies of control in the information society. New Media and Society, 4(1), 89-118.
2002 Netscapes of power: Convergence, consolidation and power in the Canadian mediascape. Media, Culture & Society, 24(6), 795-819.
Eli Noam | Co-director
Columbia University
Professor Noam focuses on the economics, management, and policy of media, Internet, and communications, both in America and around the world. He served as New York State’s Public Service Commissioner regulating the telecommunications and energy industries, on the White House Presidential Board on information technology, and on private sector and NGO boards. His 31 books and over 400 articles cover telecom, film, TV, internet, e-finance, e-commerce and IT. He served recently as President of the International Media Management Academic Association.
Selected publications
Noam, E. M. (Ed.). (2016). Who owns the world’s media?: media concentration and ownership around the world. Oxford University Press.
Noam, E. (2021). The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video: The Next Generation of Media Emerges. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Sapolsky, H. M., Crane, R. J., Neuman, W. R., & Noam, E. M. (Eds.). (2018). The Telecommunications Revolution: Past, Present and Future (Vol. 43). Routledge.
Noam, E. (2018). Beyond the mogul: From media conglomerates to portfolio media. Journalism, 19(8), 1096-1130.
Faustino, P., & Noam, E. (2019). Media industries’ management characteristics and challenges in a converging digital world. Making Media. Production, Practices, and Professions, 147-159.
Guy Hoskins | Project Administrator
Carleton University
Guy T. Hoskins is a post-doctoral research fellow with the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project where he is researching the rise of platform-led infrastructure in the global South. His forthcoming book with the University of Illinois Press examines the fate of digital rights at the periphery of informational capitalism through analysis of Brazil’s legal framework of digital civil rights, the Marco Civil da Internet. Work published in Television and New Media and Internet Policy Review, and presented at conferences such as IAMCR, ICA and AoIR has examined similar questions of communication policy and the global political economy of the Internet. Guy speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently and locates much of his research in Latin America.
Selected publications coming soon.
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