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Shawn Powers is an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University and an Associate Director at the Center on International Media Education. Dr. Powers has previously served as a research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Oxford University's Program in Comparative Media and Law and at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Global Communication Studies. He received his Ph.D from USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and specializes in the geopolitics of information and information technologies. Shawn's research interests include mass media and society, new and social media technologies, diasporic communities, globalization and traditional and public diplomacy. He has conducted field research in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern and Western Europe and North America.
Shawn's work has been published in several journals, including: Media, War & Conflict, Global Media & Communication, Ethnopolitics and Media Development. In 2007, Shawn was the co-recipient of a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to study global news broadcasters and in 2008 Shawn helped design and managed CPD's evaluation of Alhurra, the US-supported international broadcaster in the Middle East. He's also co-led projects for the World Bank (on media development) and Deutsche Welle (on news framing). Shawn is currently working on two book projects: From Micro-state to Network State: The Rise of Qatar, and The Real CyberWar: The Political Economy of the Internet.
Recent Publications by Shawn Powers
January 29, 2011 - The military and the media: Holding the cards in Egypt? CNN World
July 2010 - Beyond the BlackBerry Ban: Realpolitik and the Negotiation of Digital Rights, PDiN Monitor Volume 1, Issue 6
October 1, 2010 - Al Jazeera: World Cup broadcast was jammed from Jordan CNN World
June 15, 2010 - The Future of U.S. International Broadcasting: Light at the End of the Tunnel? CPD Blog
2009 - "Al-Jazeera English and global news networks: clash of civilizations or cross-cultural dialogue?" Media, War and Conflict
July 23, 2009 - Public Diplomacy and Legitimacy in the Age of Transparency CPD Blog
Shawn Powers in the News
March 29, 2010 - Powers quoted in "Milton Wolf Seminar: Al Jazeera English as Networked Journalism." Nieman Journalism Lab (Harvard University)
January 21, 2010 - Powers' study "Al-Jazeera English and global news networks," cited by Miller-McCune.
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