Dwayne Winseck

Dwayne Winseck is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. His research and writing focuses on the political economy of communication, media history, the development of new media, media regulation, and theories of democracy and global communication. His latest book, Communication and Empire: Media, Markets and Globalization, 1860-1930 (2007, Duke University Press) (co-authored with Robert M. Pike), won the Canadian Communication Association’s G.G. Robinson Award for best book of the year in 2008. Dwayne is also the author of Reconvergence: A Political Economy of Telecommunications in Canada (Hampton Press, 1998) as well as co-editor of Democratizing Communication: Comparative Perspectives on Information and Power (with Mashoed Bailie, Hampton Press, 1997) and Media in Global Context (co-edited with Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Annabelle Sreberny and Jim Mckenna, Edward Arnold, 1997).

Dwayne is also a member of the International Media Concentration Research Project. He also has published numerous book chapters and many journal articles in, for example, Media, Culture and Society, the International Communication Gazette, Global Media and Communication, Javnost/the Public, New Media and Society, Media History, the Canadian Journal of Communication, the European Journal of Communication, and elsewhere. Before making Ottawa his home in the frigid winter of 1998, he lived and taught in Britain, the People’s Republic of China, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, as well as the United States.

Dwayne has also recently taken to blogging. You can see his thoughts d'jour on contemporary issues related to the Canadian, U.S., and global media industries here.