Research Catalog

Title

How Canadians communicate II : media, globalization, and identity / edited by David Taras, Maria Bakardjieva, and Frits Pannekoek.

Publication

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Taras, David, 1950-
• Bakardjieva, Maria, 1959-
• Pannekoek, Frits, 1947-

Description

xxii, 328 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This volume embarks upon a new examination of Canada's current media health and turns its attention to the impact of globalization on Canadian communication, culture, and identity. This collection of essays includes contributions from experts from a wide range of specialties in the areas of communication and technology.--[book cover].

Alternative Title

Media, globalization, and identity

Subject

• Communication > Canada
• Mass media > Canada
• Communication and culture > Canada
• Mass media and culture > Canada
• Culture and globalization > Canada
• Identity (Psychology) and mass media > Canada
• Information technology > Social aspects > Canada
• Mass media > Social aspects > Canada
• Nationalism > Canada
• Culture et mondialisation > Canada
• Communication et culture > Canada
• Médias et culture > Canada
• Identité (Psychologie) et médias > Canada
• Technologie de l'information > Aspect social > Canada
• Médias > Aspect social > Canada
• Nationalisme > Canada
• Canada > Cultural policy
• Canada > Politique culturelle

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Media, globalization, and identity in Canada: an introduction / David Taras -- A. The debate over policy. From assumptions of scarcity to the facts of fragmentation / Kenneth J. Goldstein -- Canadian communications and the spectre of globalization: "Just another word ..." / Richard Schultz -- Other people's money: the debate over foreign ownership in the media / Christopher Dornan -- Canadian television and the limits of cultural citizenship / Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan -- On life support: the CBC and the future of public broadcasting in Canada / Marc Raboy and David Taras -- B. The quest for identity. Dimensions of empowerment: identity politics on the internet / Maria Bakardjieva -- How Canadians blog / Michael Keren -- The Canadian music industry at a crossroads / Richard Sutherland and Will Straw -- Digital disturbances: on the promotion, panic and politics of video game violence / Stephen Kline -- C. The struggled for control. Download this!: Contesting digital rights in a global era: the case of music downloading in Canada / Graham Longford -- Now it's personal: copyright issues in Canada / Sheryl N. Hamilton -- Globalization and scholarly communication: a story of Canadian Marginalization / Frits Pannekoek, Helen Clarke, and Andrew Waller -- Broadband at the margins: challenges to supernet deployment in rural and remote Albertan communities / David Mitchell.

ISBN

• 9781552382240
• 1552382249

LCCN

^^2007408321

OCLC

• 173372028
• SCSB-12459159

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library