How Canadians Communicate, Vol. 2 - Media, Globalization and Identity (Paperback)

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 analysing 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 to global communication systems, inexorably altering the fundamental ways in which Canadians communicate. The editors have carefully chosen essays that address the central issues of today's global media environment from a uniquely Canadian perspective.Grouped under the headings 'The Debate over Policy', 'The Quest for Identity', and 'The Struggle for Control', the topics ranging from media concentration to foreign ownership and the challenge of mass communication in an increasingly multicultural community, underscoring the way in which our media has operated in the past and how it must now adapt to a new media landscape. There is little dou

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Imprint:	University of Calgary Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	May 2007
First published:	June 2007
Contributors:	Kenneth J. Goldstein
Editors:	David Taras
Contributors:	Will Straw • Stephen Kline • Graham Longford • Sheryl N. Hamilton • Frits Panekoek • Helen Clark • Andrew Waller • Richard Schultz
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	350
ISBN-13:	978-1-55238-224-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General
LSN:	1-55238-224-9
Barcode:	9781552382240

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