How Canadians Communicate

by Taras, David; Pannekoek, Frits; Bakardjieva, Maria

• ISBN13: 9781552381045
• ISBN10: 1552381048
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Calgary Pr

Summary

This is a timely collection that chronicles the extraordinary changes that are shaking the foundations of Canada's cultural and communications industries in the twenty-first century. With essays from some of Canada's foremost media scholars, this book discusses the major trends and developments that have taken place in government policy, corporate strategies, creative communities, and various communication mediums: newspapers, films, cellular and palm technology, the Internet, libraries, TV, music, and book publishing. This volume addresses many issues unique to Canada in a broader framework of global communications. Specifically, it looks at new media communications in Aboriginal communities, the changing role of the state in cultural institutions, the conglomeratisation of the media, the threat of American and global communications to Canadian voices, and the struggle to retain and reclaim local and national identities in the face of globalisation. With articles from academics and professionals across Canada, this book provides the most current perspectives on communication in Canada in a rapidly changing world of technology and global communication.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The New World of Communications in Canada
David Taras	9	(18)
Government and Corporate Policies
From Master to Partner to Bit Player: The Diminishing Capacity of Government Policy
Richard Schultz	27	(24)
No Clear Channel: The Rise and Possible Fall of Media Convergence
Vincent A. Carlin	51	(20)
Canadian Memory Institutions and the Digital Revolution: The Last Five Years
Frits Pannekoek	71	(26)
Canadian Media and Canadian Identity
Printed Matter: Canadian Newspapers
Christopher Dornan	97	(24)
Publishing and Perishing with No Parachute
Aritha van Herk	121	(22)
Canadian Television: Industry, Audience and Technology
Rebecca Sullivan and Bart Beaty	143	(22)
In From the Cold: Aboriginal Media in Canada
Cora Voyageur	165	(20)
Film and Film Culture in Canada: Which Way Forward?
Malek Khouri	185	(18)
No Future? The Canadian Music Industries
Will Straw	203	(22)
New Media and Canadian Society
"Unhyping" the Internet: At Home with a New Medium
Maria Bakardjieva	225	(28)
Telehealth in Canada
M.A. Hebert, P.A. Jennett, and R.E. Scott	253	(22)
From the "Electronic Cottage" to the "Silicon Sweatshop": Social Implications of Telemediated Work in Canada
Graham D. Longford and Barbara A. Crow	275	(31)
Notes on Contributors	306