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Shawn Powers is a Visiting Assistant Professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism London Program and a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He earned his Ph.D. from USC Annenberg in 2009 where he studied and wrote about the geopolitical uses of news and information by international actors. 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. His current projects include revising his dissertation into a book on how the Al Jazeera Network has helped Qatar transition from a "micro-state" to an influential "network-state," a comparative analysis of how different international broadcasters report news of China, and a case study of exemplar uses of social media for development and good governance in Asia and the Middle East.
Recent Publications by Shawn Powers
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
June 8, 2009 -- From Guantanamo Bay to Pyongyang: The Diplomacy of Deeds CPD Blog
2008 -- U.S. International Broadcasting: An Untapped Resource For Ethnic and Domestic News Organizations Carnegie/USC Center on Communication Leadership and Policy
2008 -- "Examining the Danish cartoon affair: mediatized cross-cultural tensions?" Media, War and Conflict
2008 -- "Mediating Conflict: Al-Jazeera English and the Possibility of a Conciliatory Media" USC Center on Public Diplomacy
Shawn Powers in the News
January 21, 2010 -- Powers' study "Al-Jazeera English and global news networks," cited by Miller-McCune.
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