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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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