Greg Downey
Historian and geographer of information/communication technology and labor
Professor, journalism and mass communication; library and information studies School of Journalism and Mass Communications Work: 608-695-4310 — Home and cell phones available upon request gdowney@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- History of information technology
- Geography of communication
- Teaching with new media
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