Books
Diamond, Bev, Denis Crowdy and Daniel Downes (editors). Post-colonial Distances. The Study of Pop Music in Canada and Australia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2008. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0051-1, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0051-8.
Downes, D.Interactive Realism: the Poetics of Cyberspace. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-7735-2854-7 (cloth) ISBN 0-7735-2920-9 (paper).
Articles
Downes, D. (2016). “Transproperty. Intellectual Property and the Ideal Property Form”. Digital Studies. 6 (1), ISSN: 1918-3666, February 2016, Approx. 20 p.
Downes, D. (2006). “New Media Economy. Intellectual Property and Cultural Insurrection”. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 9 (1), http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.103, Approx. 20 p.
Downes, D. (2002). “The Medium Vanishes? The Resurrection of the Mass Audience in the New Media Economy”. Revised & reprinted. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 7 (3), http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-03/downes.html, Approx. 11 p.
Downes, D. (2000). “The Medium Vanishes? The Resurrection of the Mass Audience in the New Media Economy.” M/C (Media Culture), 3, (1), http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/0003/mass.html, Approx. 11 p.
Downes, D., R. Janda. (1998).”Virtual Citizenship.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 3 (2), 27 – 61.
Selected Chapters
Downes, D. “How Does Media Transform Society?”, in Myra J. Hird and George Pavlich (eds.) Questioning Sociology 3ed. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 115 – 131. ISBN 978-0-19-902010-2.
Madeley, J. and D. Downes. “Post-mortem Elvis: From Cultural Icon to Transproperty” in Catherine Strong and Barbara Lebrun (eds.) Death and the Rock Star. Surrey: Ashgate, 2015, pp. 149- 161. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3091-5.
Downes, D. “Branding Culture: Fictional Characters and Undead Celebrities in an age of “Transpropertied” Media”. In Courtney Doagoo, Mistrale Goudreau, Madelaine Seginur and Teresa Scassa (eds.) Intellectual Property for the 21st Century. Interdisciplinary Approaches. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014, pp. 246- 267. ISBN:978-1-55221-353-7.
Downes, D. and J. Madeley. “Sympathy for the Circus. The Rolling Stones, Documentary Film and the Construction of Authenticity,” in Helmut Staubmann (ed.) The Rolling Stones – Sociological Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013, pp. 81 -106. ISBN: 978-0-7391-7673-3.
Downes, D. “No Contest: American Idol and the Culture of Competition” in Transformations and mistranslations: American remakes of international television. Edited by Carlen Lavigne and Heather Marcovitch. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2011, pp. 17 – 34 ISBN 978-0-7391-4672-9 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-7391-4674-3 (paper).
Downes, D. and J. Madeley. “The Mouse is Dead, Long Live the Ogre: Shrek and the Boundaries of Transgression” in Aurelie Lacassagne (ed). Investigating Shrek: Power, Identity and Ideology. NY: Palgrave, 2011, pp.75 -85 ISBN 978-0-230-11415-9.
Fleet, G., D. Downes and L. Johnson E-Learning….the LceL group in Elaina Norlin and Tiffini Travis (eds.) E-learning and Business Plans: National and International Case Studies. Scarecrow Press, 2008, pp. 169 – 188. ISBN: 978-0810851955.
Downes, D.“The Poetics of Place (Branded)” in Intellectual Property at the Edge: New Approaches to IP in a Transsystemic World: The Meredith Lectures 2006 Montreal: Éditions Yvon Blais, 2007, pp. 299 – 320). ISBN: 978-2-89635-108-4.
Downes, D. “Intellectual Property and Copyright Issues in the Global Economy,” (Revised and updated). In P. Attallah and L. Shade (Eds.). Mediascapes: Communication in Canada 2 ed. Toronto: Nelson, 2005, pp. 266-280. ISBN: 0-17-640652-2.