How Canadians Communicate II

by Taras, David

• ISBN13: 9781552382240
• ISBN10: 1552382249
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-11
• Publisher: Univ of Calgary Pr

Summary

In the first volume of How Canadians Communicate the editors examined and assessed the health of Canada's cultural industries circa 2003. In this second volume, they not only undertake a new examination of Canada's current media health, but also turn their attention to analyzing the impact of the startling pace of global media proliferation on our country's media institutions. The revolutionary changes underway in mass media technology, from blogs to peer-to-peer networks and the ubiquitous cell phone, have all imposed structural modifications on global communication systems, inexorably altering the fundamental ways in which Canadians communicate.

Table of Contents

Media, globalization, and identity in Canada : an introduction
From assumptions of scarcity to the facts of fragmentation	p. 3
Canadian communications and the spectre of globalization : "just another word ..."	p. 23
Other people's money : the debate over foreign ownership in the media	p. 47
Canadian television and the limits of cultural citizenship	p. 65
On life support : the CBC and the future of public broadcasting in Canada	p. 83
Dimensions of empowerment : identity politics on the Internet	p. 107
How Canadians blog	p. 123
The Canadian music industry at a crossroads	p. 141
Digital disturbances : on the promotion, panic, and politics of video game violence	p. 167
Download this! : contesting digital rights in a global era : the case of music downloading in Canada	p. 195
Now it's personal : copyright issues in Canada	p. 217
Globalization and scholarly communication : a story of Canadian marginalization	p. 239
Broadband at the margins : challenges to supernet deployment in rural and remote Albertan communities	p. 261
Keywords in Canadian communication : a student afterword	p. 289
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