John Downey Editor

John Downey is Reader in Comparative Media at Loughborough University, UK. He has written widely on new media, the public sphere, and comparative media and in n 2007 he was named as one of the fifty leading communication scholars in Europe by Communication Director magazine. Sabina Mihelj is Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture at Loughborough University. Her research focuses on issues of collective identity and mass communication, comparative media research and the cultural and social history of Cold War media.