Greg Downey
Historian and geographer of information/communication technology and labor
Evjue-Bascom Professor, Information School and School of Journalism & Mass Communication School of Journalism and Mass Communications College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence College of Letters and Science Information School Work: 608-695-4310 — Home and cell phones available upon request gdowney@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- History of information/communication technology
- Science and technology studies
Achievements
- Author, "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television," 2008
- William H. Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching Award, 2007
- Author, "Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950," 2002