Publications and Doctoral Supervision

(February 2006)

Stephen D. McDowell

Associate Professor and Chair

Department of Communication, Florida State University

University Center Building C, Suite 3100

Tallahassee, Florida, United States, 32306-2664

Ph: 850-644-2276; Facs: 850-644-8642

E-mail: smcdowel@mailer.fsu.edu

Publications

Books:

Stephen D. McDowell, Globalization, Liberalization and Policy Change: A Political Economy of India's Communications Sector (New York: St. Martin's; and Houndmills, U.K.: The Macmillan Press, 1997).

Articles in Refereed Journals:

Chunil Park and Stephen D. McDowell, “Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Social Shaping of Technology: Comparing South Korea and Canada,” Canadian Journal of Communication, Volume 30, Number 1 (2005): 111-138.

Kartik Pashupati, Helen Sun, and Stephen D. McDowell, “Guardians of Culture, Development Communications, or State Capitalists: Policy Responses to Satellite Television: Similarities and Contrast in India and China,” Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies Volume 65 Number 3 (2003): 251-271.

Stephen D. McDowell and Jenghoon Lee, “India’s Experiments in Mobile Licensing,” Telecommunications Policy Volume 27 (2003): 371-382.

Shree Venkatachalam and Stephen D. McDowell, “What is Broadband? Where is Rural?” Government Information Quarterly Volume 20 Number 2 (2003): 151-166.

Stephen D. McDowell and Sharon Strover (editors). “Setting the Agenda for Rural Broadband” Government Information Quarterly Volume 20 Number 2 (2003).

Philip E. Steinberg and Stephen D. McDowell, "Mutiny on the Bandwidth: The Semiotics of Statehood in the Internet Domain Name Registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue," New Media and Society Volume 5 Number 1 (2003): 47-67.

Philip Steinberg and Stephen D. McDowell, "Global Communication and the Post-Statism of Cyberspace: A Spatial Constructivist View," Review of Political Economy Volume 10, Number 2 (2003): 196-221.

Stephen D. McDowell and Philip Steinberg, "Non-State Governance and the Internet: Civil Society and the ICANN," Info Volume 3 Number 4 (August 2001): 279-298.

Jackson, Michele, and Stephen D. McDowell, "Enhancing Discourse on New Media within Higher Education," Information, Communication and Society, Volume 3 Number 4 (Winter 2000): 629-638.

Stephen D. McDowell and Carleen Maitland, "The V-Chip in Canada and the United States: Themes and Variations in Design and Deployment," Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media Volume 42 Number 4 (Fall 1998): 401-422.

Stephen D. McDowell and Cheryl C. Buchwald, "Public Interest Groups and the Canadian Information Highway," Telecommunications Policy Volume 21 Number 8 (October 1997): 709-719.

Stephen D. McDowell, "Globalization and Policy Choice: Television and Audiovisual Services Policies in India," Media, Culture and Society Volume 19 Number 2 (March 1997): 151-172.

Stephen D. McDowell, "The Decline of the License Raj: Indian Software Export Policies," Journal of Communication Volume 45 Number 4 (Autumn 1995): 24-49.

Stephen D. McDowell, "From Communications Policy to Trade and Industrial Policy: The Canadian State and Telecommunications Technology," Canadian Journal of Communication Volume 18 Number 4 (Autumn 1993): 507-514.

Stephen D. McDowell, "Mennonites, The Canadian State, and Globalization in International Political Economy," Conrad Grebel Review Volume 12 Number 1 (Winter 1994): 21-42.

Articles in Non-Refereed Journals:

Ana Luz Ruelas, Stephen D. McDowell, and Martin R. Dowding. “La regulacion de las telecommunicaciones en Mexico y Canada: semejanzas y contrastos.” Revista Mexicana de Estudios Canadienses: Nueva Epoca. Numero 3, Verano 2002: pp 107-122.

"Canadian Communication and Cultural Policies: Coping with Globalization and Digital Media,"in Estudios de América del Norte, Volumen I, Número 3, (Noviembre de 2000). Culiacán, Sin. México. Available: http://www.uasnet.mx/centro/profesional/historia/US.CAN/rev/tres/mcdowell.htm.

Ana Luz Ruelas, Stephen D. McDowell, and Martin R. Dowding, "La Reforma de las Telecomunicaciones en America del Norte," in Estudios de América del Norte, Volumen I, Número 1, (Noviembre de 1999). Culiacán, Sin. México. Available: http://www.uasnet.mx/historia/US.CAN/rev/Uno/.

Stephen D. McDowell and Kartik Pashupati, “India's Internet Policies: New Media Ownership,Control, and Purposes,” Media Development Volume XLV Number 4 (1998): 18-24.

Stephen D. McDowell and Kartik Pashupati, “India's Internet Policies: Ownership, Control, and Purposes,” Informatik Forum Heft 1 (1999) (reprint of Media Development article).

Stephen D. McDowell, "Development or Diversion? Telecom Regulation in India," Voices for Change: A Journal on Communications and Development Volume 1 Number 3 (1997): 4-7.

"India's Telecom Policy Issues in the 1990s," Transnational Data and Communications Report (June/July 1990): 14-18.

"India's Telecom Policy Issues in the 1990s," Telematics India (New Delhi) (March 1991): 20-24. Reprint of shortened version of June/July 1990 article.

"The Shaping of Transborder Data Flow Policy," Transnational Data and Communications Report (May 1989): 19-23.

Chapters in Refereed Books:

“Theory and Research in International Communication: An Historical and Institutional Account," in Bella Mody (ed.), International and Development Communication: A 21st Century Perspective (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2003): 5-18. (This is a reprint of 2001 Sage chapter.)

"Understanding Shifts in the Form and Scope of Telecommunications Governance: Canada and the United States in the 20^th Century," in James N. Rosenau and J. P. Singh (eds.), Information Technologies and Global Politics: The Changing Scope of Power and Governance (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002): 211-237.

Jackson, Michele, and Stephen D. McDowell, "Enhancing Discourse on New Media within Higher Education," in William H. Dutton and Brian Loader (eds.) Digital Academe: New Media in Higher Education and Learning (Taylor and Francis/Routledge: 2002): 318-327.

"Theory and Research in International Communication: An Historical and Institutional Account," in William Gudykunst and Bella Mody (eds.), Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication (Second Edition) (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2001): 295-308.

"The Un-Sovereign Century: Canada's Media and Communications Industries and Policies," in S. Waisbord and N. Morris (eds.), Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001): 117-132.

"New Audiovisual Services and Communications Policy in India," in Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay (ed.), Perspectives on South Asia at the Threshold of the 21st Century Selected Articles from the Conferences of the South Asia Council of the Canadian Asian Studies Association 1994-1996 (Montreal: Canadian Asian Studies Association, 1997): 507-537.

"Telecommunications and North American integration: trade liberalization versus infrastructure investment," in Christos C. Paraskevopoulos, Ricardo Grinspun and George E. Eaton (eds.), Economic Integration in the Americas (Aldershot, U. K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996): 288-299.

"India, the LDCs, and GATT Negotiations on Trade and Investment in Services," in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill (eds.), Political Economy and the Changing Global Order (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994): 497-510.

Chapters in Non-Refereed Books:

Stephen D. McDowell and Patrick Hadley, “La Brecha Digital y la Comunidad Latina en Estados Unidos” (translation of "The Digital Divide and the Latino Community in the United States"), in Fronteras en America del Norte: Estudios Multidisciplinarios. Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, 2004. (published in Spanish, translated by the publishers).

"Mass Media and Information Technology in Education," chapter for Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Paris: UNESCO, 2004) (Available online at: www.eolss.net, login required).

"Strategies to advance the cultural diversity instrument initiative: Thoughts on the goals, scope and form of governance,” in Tremblay, Gaëtan (sous la direction de), PANAM: industries culturelles et dialogue des civilisations dans les Amériques, Presses de l’Université Laval, Québec, 2003, p. 211-225.

Ruelas, A. L., S. D. McDowell, y M. Dowding. “La reforma de las telecommunicaciones en America del Norte.” Pp. 169-203 in G. Ibarra y A. L. Ruelas (eds.), Mexico y Canada en la globalizacion: Fronteras tensionades en America del Norte. Culician, Sinaloa, Mexico: Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, 2000.

“Globalization, Local Governance, and the United States Telecommunications Act of 1996,” in James O. Wheeler, Barney Warf, and Yuko Aoyama (ed.), Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies (New York: Routledge, 2000): 112-129.

Stephen McDowell, with Carleen Maitland, "Developing Television Ratings in Canada and the United States: The Perils and Promises of Self-Regulation," in Monroe E. Price (ed.), The V-Chip Debate: Content Filtering from Television to the Internet (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998): 23-46.

"Policy Research Institutes and Liberalized International Services Exchange," in Stephen Brooks and Alain-G. Gagnon (eds.), The Political Influence of Ideas: Policy Communities and the Social Sciences (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1994): 107-133.

"International Services Liberalisation and Indian Telecommunications Policy," in Edward Comor (ed.), The Global Political Economy of Communication (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994): 103-124. (Re-published in paperback, 1996.)

"On Informatics and the Indian State: Examining Conventional Interpretations," in Elliot. L. Tepper and John R. Wood (eds.), Enriched by South Asia: Celebrating Twenty Five Years of South Asian Studies in Canada (Volume 2, Social Sciences) (Montreal: Canadian Asian Studies Association, 1994): 219-239.

Chapters in Books - In Press:

“Commercial Control and Governance of Global Electronic Networks,” chapter in Christopher May (ed.), Global Corporate Power: (Re)integrating Companies into IPE, International Political Economy Yearbook Volume 15 (Lynne Rienner Publishers, in press).

Stephen D. McDowell and Jenghoon Lee, “Tracking `Localism’ in Television Broadcasting: Utilizing and Structuring Public Information,” chapter in Philip Napoli (ed.), Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics (Lawrence Erlbaum, in press).

“Shifting Approaches to Governing E-Commerce: From Promoting New Technology to Controlling Uses ,” Louis Leung et al (editors). Internet Communication in Intelligent Societies (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic, in press).

“Mass Media and New Media and Sustained Development: Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Considerations,” chapter for publication arising from “International Conference on Intercultural Communication,” School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University, China, June 2-8, 2004, (Translated to Chinese by Chuan-yang Hsu and Xiao Wang). In press.

Stephen D. McDowell and Moonki Hong, “United States Trade Policy and the Reshaping of Intellectual Property Rights Protection in the APEC Region,” chapter in Jan Servaes and Pradip Thomas (eds.) Intellectual Property Rights and Communications in Asia: Conflicting Traditions (New Delhi Sage Publications, in press 2006).

Book Reviews:

Review of Shelton A. Gunaratne (ed.), Handbook of the Media in Asia (New Delhi, London: Sage, 2000), in Journal of Communication Volume 52 Number 2 (June 2002): 477-478.

Review of William H. Melody (ed.), Telecom Reform: Principles, Policies and Regulatory Practices (Lyngby, Denmark: Den Private Ingeniorfond, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, 1997) and Heather E. Hudson, Global Connections: International Telecommunications Infrastructure and Policy (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997), in The Information Society Volume 17 Number 4 (October-December 2001): 297-299.

Review of Satu Kahkonen and Anthony Lanyi (eds.), Institutions, Incentives and Economic Reforms in India (New Delhi: Sage, 2000) in Pacific Affairs Volume 74 Number 2 (Summer 2001): 278-279.

Review of Arvind Rajagopal, Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001), in Journal of Communication Volume 51 Number 4 (December 2001): 832-833.

Review of Kirk Johnson, Television and Social Change in Rural India (London: Sage Publications, 2000), and Subhash Bhatnagar and Robert Schware. (eds.), Information and Communication Technology in Development: Cases from India (New Delhi (India).Thousand Oaks (California). London (UK): Sage Publications. 2000), in Pacific Affairs, Volume 75, Number 1 (Spring 2002): 130-132

Review of Dean Alger, Megamedia: How Giant Corporations Dominant Mass Media, Distort Competition, and Endanger Democracy (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998) in Tolley's Communications Law Volume 5 Number 1 (2000): 39-40.

Review of Monroe E. Price and Stefaan G. Verhulst (eds.), Broadcasting Reform in India: Media Law from a Global Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1998); and Srinivas R. Melkote, Peter Shields, and Binod C. Agrawal (eds.), International Satellite Broadcasting in South Asia: Political, Economic and Cultural Implications (University Press of America, 1998) in Tolley's Communications Law Volume 4 Number 2 (1999): 80-81.

Review Essay, “Telecommunications, Cities, and Geographic and Social Space," Journal of Communication Volume 47 Number 1 (Winter 1997): 136-143.

Doctoral Dissertations Supervised (Completed):

Alexandre G. Nikolaev (2001). The Extension and Transformation of the Two-Level-Game Theory and its Application to the Field of Communication. Department of Communication, Florida State University.

Hua Lin (Helen) Sun (2003). Internet Policy and Use: A Field Study of Internet Cafes in China. Department of Communication, Florida State University. (co-chaired with John Mayo). Department of Communication, Florida State University.

Barbara Daniel (2004). Workplace Bullying: A Communication Perspective. Department of Communication, Florida State University.

Tami K. Tomasello (2004). A Content Analysis of J. C. R. Licklider’s “Man-Computer Symbiosis,” 1960-2001: Diffusing the Intergalactic Network. Department of Communication, Florida State University.