Greg Downey
Position title: Evjue-Bascom Professor, iSchool and School of Journalism & Mass Communciation
Email: gdowney@wisc.edu
Address:
History and geography of information technology and labor
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Professor Downey’s research uses historical and geographical methods to uncover and analyze “information labor” over time and space. He is the author of Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography 1850-1950 (2002), Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television (2008), and Technology and Communication in American History (2011). He is also co-editor of Uncovering Labor in Information Revolutions, 1750-2000 (with Aad Blok, 2004) and Science in Print: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print (with Rima Apple and Stephen Vaughn, 2012).