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Stephen D. McDowell
Researcher at Florida State University
Publications - 34
Citations - 354
Stephen D. McDowell is an academic researcher from Florida State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public policy & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 34 publications receiving 335 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen D. McDowell include Michigan State University & Carleton University.
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The Information Revolution and Developing Countries
TL;DR: Wilson et al. as discussed by the authors provide a comprehensive theoretic framework explaining the "strategic restructuring" of government policies and institutions associated with policies promoting the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs).
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Globalization and policy choice: television and audiovisual services policies in India
TL;DR: The dominant account of the liberalization of audiovisual services policies in India focuses almost solely on the role of global economic forces and technical change as discussed by the authors, while policy choices have been constrained.
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Mutiny on the bandwidth: the semiotics of statehood in the internet domain name registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue
TL;DR: It is found that the domain name system affirms the centrality of the sovereign state while concurrently challenging its underlying basis in an idealized nexus of nation, government, and territory.
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Consolidation in the Name of Regulation: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and the Concentration of Media Ownership in Pakistan
Azmat Rasul,Stephen D. McDowell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship between media regulation and concentration of ownership in Pakistan through the lens of the political economy of communication and conclude that owner-friendly policies of PEMRA and its inefficiency in implementing its mandate have resulted in the concentration of media ownership, which facilitated diagonal growth of a handful of companies that control the airwaves in the Pakistani media industry.
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India's experiments in mobile licensing☆
Stephen D. McDowell,Jenghoon Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have tried several different ways to allocate portions of the radiomagnetic spectrum as part of its licensing policies for wireless services, including auction and revenue sharing.