Prof Seamus Simpson
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Seamus, CCM Research Centre’s Professor of Media Policy, has just (November 2011) been elected Vice-Chair of the International Communication Association’s Communication Law and Policy Division. ICA is a leading international academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication with more than 3,500 members in 65 countries. Since 2003, ICA has been officially associated with the United Nations as a non-governmental association (NGO). Seamus, will take up his post after the 2012 ICA conference in Phoenix, Arizona, 24-28 May.
A new co-authored book has recently been contracted: Seamus Simpson and George Christou, 2013. The EU in Global Electronic Communications. London: Routledge.
A second new co-authored book is also now contracted for publication in 2013: Peter Humphreys and Seamus Simpson. Regulation, Governance and Convergence in the Media. Edward Elgar.
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s.simpson@salford.ac.uk
Seamus Simpson is Professor of Media Policy in the School of Media, Music and Performance, and a member of the Communication, Cultural & Media Studies (CCM) Research Centre.
His research interests lie in UK, European and global communications media policy. Specific focus has been on a range of Internet, telecommunication, and media convergence governance issues.
Some topics recently covered are:
• the EU as an actor in global Internet governance;
• critiques of the European Electronic Communications Regulatory Framework;
• next generation communications media network policies at EU level;
• policy issues around private interest/hybrid public-private regulatory bodies in UK communications media;
• public service and the public interest in next generation communications network environments
Work in these areas has recently appeared, or is shortly forthcoming in, among others: the West European Politics; the Journal of European Public Policy; Governance; the Journal of Common Market Studies; Convergence; Information, Communication and Society; the European Journal of Communication; and the Journal of Public Policy.
He is co-author of Globalisation, Convergence and European Telecommunications Regulation (2005, Edward Elgar) (with Peter Humphreys, University of Manchester) and The New Electronic Marketplace: European Governance Strategies in a Globalising Economy (2007, Edward Elgar) (with George Christou, University of Warwick).
Seamus is a member of the ESRC’s Peer Review College and was Principal Investigator on the ESRC-funded European Regulation of Internet Commerce project.
He is interested in supervising PhD students in all areas of media policy and the communications and media field more generally.
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