Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth
Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped
hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on
television and video cameras. They are all making history.
In a different approach to that old issue, 'the Canadian
identity, ' Gerald Friesen links the media studies of Harold Innis
to the social history of recent decades. The result is a framework
for Canadian history as told by ordinary people. Friesen suggests
that the common peoples' perceptions of time and space in what is
now Canada changed with innovations in the dominant means of
communication. He defines four communication-based epochs in
Canadian history: the oral-traditional world of pre-contact
Aboriginal people; the textual-settler household of immigrants; the
print-capitalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the
screen-capitalism that has emerged in the last few decades. This
analysis of communication is linked to distinctive political
economies, each of which incorporates its predecessors in an
increasingly complex social order.
In each epoch, using the new communication technologies, people
struggled to find the political means by which they could ensure
that they and their households survived and, if they were lucky,
prospered. Canada is the sum of their endeavours. "Citizens and
Nation" demonstrates that it is possible to find meaning in the
nation's past that will interest, among others, a new, young, and
multicultural reading audience.
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