Media & Communication Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Bearing WitnessJournalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion |
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 |
![]() Beyond ContemptHow Liberals can Communicate Across the Great Divide |
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 |
![]() Canadian Culture in a Globalized WorldThe impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life |
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.caMaking Sense of Canadian Media in the Digital Age |
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 |
![]() CyberidentitiesCanadian and European Presence in Cyberspace |
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 |
![]() i-Minds, 2nd editionHow and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it |
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 |
![]() The Imperilled OceanHuman Stories From a Changing Sea |
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 |
![]() The Tangled GardenA Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age |
The emergence of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (the FAANGs) has created an unprecedented challenge to Canada’s news, television and film businesses. In this book Richard … | Richard Stursberg | 224 | 2019 | View |
![]() Working for the Common GoodCanadfian Women Politicians |
In Working for the Common Good, Madelyn Holmes details the political policy work of eight social democratic Canadian women and highlights their largely unrecognized struggles and accomplishments. | Madelyn Holmes | 182 | 2017 | View |
From ![]() Beyond Infrastructure: Canadian and European Identities in CyberspaceFrom: Cyberidentities |
Preface | Leen d'Haenens | 8 | 1999 | $1.12 Add |
From ![]() Foreward & IntroductionFrom: Cultural Industries.ca |
Looks at the term mass media and how it does not fit in a Canadian Context, defines cultural industry for the purpose of this book, emphasis on methodology, the changing landscape of cultural … | Ira Wagman; Michael Dorland; Peter Urquhart | 8 | 2012 | $0.80 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Bearing Witness |
- | Michael Dupuis | 14 | 2017 | $1.96 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
My objective? To have us all pondering and examining. To “rise in arms” not against the i-tech industry but to our own blind acceptance or complacency, to our apparent apathy, and the … | Mari K Swingle | 1 | 2019 | $0.10 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: The Tangled Garden |
An introduction to the book’s scope and sequence, laying out why Canada’s major media (television networks, newspapers, film industry are suddenly at risk as a result of the advent of … | Richard Stursberg | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Beyond Contempt |
In the Introduction, the author provides some personal background to her experiences with political discourse and sets the stage for engaging in productive conversation in the aftermath of the … | Erica Etelson | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
From ![]() Preface |
Author Garry Neil introduces his argument, explaining why Canadian culture is important and highlighting his background and experience on this subject. | Garry Neil | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |