Media & Communication Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Bearing Witness Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion Fernwood Publishing	Bearing Witness tells the story of the Explosion, and the catastrophic damage it caused, through the eyes and words of more than two dozen journalists and record keepers who experienced it first …	Michael Dupuis	221	2017	View
NEW! Beyond Contempt How Liberals can Communicate Across the Great Divide New Society Publishers	Liberal and progressive frustration, grief, and alarm over Trump’s destructive political agenda and behavior have prompted mounting disdain for Trump supporters and other conservatives. …	Erica Etelson	242	2020	View
NEW! Canadarm and Collaboration How Canada's Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds ECW Press	Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program …	Elizabeth Howell	249	2020	View
Canadian Culture in a Globalized World The impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life James Lorimer and Company	Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign …	Garry Neil	256	2019	View
Cultural Industries.ca Making Sense of Canadian Media in the Digital Age James Lorimer and Company	Canada’s creative industries encompass book, periodical, and newspaper publishing; radio and television broadcasting; the music industry; video game production; filmmaking and video …	Ira Wagman; Peter Urquhart	248	2012	View
Cyberidentities Canadian and European Presence in Cyberspace University of Ottawa Press	This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and …	Leen d'Haenens	220	1999	View
NEW! Decolonize Hipsters Between The Lines	Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that …	Grégory Pierrot	148	2021	View
Disfigured On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space Coach House Books	A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020, AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21, AND A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022) Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what …	Amanda Leduc	257	2020	View
i-Minds, 2nd edition How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it New Society Publishers	The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also …	Mari K Swingle	528	2019	View
NEW! Imagined Truths Myths from a Draft-Dodging Poet twp	Memory is not only selective, it’s an amazing liar, con artist and spin doctor. History is what we choose to remember about the past in order to justify the present. Richard Lemm grew up in …	Richard Lemm	272	2021	View
NEW! Inside the Montreal Mafia The Confessions of Andrew Scoppa ECW Press	A groundbreaking, exclusive inside look at the North American Mafia and the Rizzuto family. For the first time in Canadian history, a high-ranking Mafioso agreed to break the code of omertà by …	Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin	240	2022	View
NEW! Len & Cub A Queer History Goose Lane Editions	Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly …	Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt	192	2022	View
NEW! Man at the Airport How Social Media Saved My Life: One Syrian's Story Tidewater Press	His only weapon was his cellphone. When revolution and war broke out in his home country in 2011, Hassan Al Kontar was a young Syrian living and working in the UAE. A conscientious objector by …	Hassan Al Kontar	232	2021	View
NEW! Reset Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society House of Anansi Press	In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the …	Ronald J. Deibert	339	2020	View
The History of Montréal The Story of a Great North American City Baraka Books	Montreal is one of those unique cities at the crossroads of history. Paul-André Linteau’s The History of Montréal provides essential background for both Montrealers and all those …	Paul-André Linteau	206	2013	View
NEW! The Imperilled Ocean Human Stories From a Changing Sea Goose Lane Editions	An exploration of the earth’s last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future. On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana …	Laura Trethewey	238	2020	View