Media & Society

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
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
NEW! Fundamental Law for Journalists Irwin Law Inc.	Journalists will come across many arcane and sometimes obtuse legal concepts in the course of their work. Law is not an intuitive thing. It has developed over a millennium, and its basic rules …	Mark Bourrie	232	2023	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! 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
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 Next Big Thing Goose Lane Editions	Canadian journalist and political insider Dalton Camp left behind a powerful legacy, including books, essays, and newspaper columns on Canadian politics and public policy. To both celebrate his …	Philip Lee	208	2014	View
NEW! The Trauma Beat A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News ECW Press	A groundbreaking and thorough examination of the trauma caused by the media covering crimes, both to victims and journalists, from a respected journalist and victim advocate In The Trauma Beat, …	Tamara Cherry	332	2023	View
NEW! The Trudeau Record Promise and Performance 25 experts weigh in James Lorimer and Company	In this book, independent experts analyze the performance of Justin Trudeau’s years in power in six key policy areas: Indigenous rights, governance and housing; the environment and energy; …	Katherine Scott; Laura Macdonald; Stuart Trew	336	2024	View
NEW! Thinking While Black Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation Between The Lines	This uniquely interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution. Drawing on an eclectic mix of archival …	Daniel McNeil	222	2022	View
Uncle Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty Coach House Books	Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O. J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, …	Cheryl Thompson	272	2021	View
What We Talk About When We Talk About War Goose Lane Editions	An Amazon.ca Editor’s Pick for 2012 and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2012 Shortlisted, Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and …	Noah Richler	376	2012	View
From Editor’s Preface From: Decolonize Hipsters View Between The Lines	In the Preface, series editor Bhakti Shringarpure explains the series Decolonize That!: Handbooks for the Revolutionary Overthrow of Embedded Colonial Ideas and why hipsters would be the first …	Bhakti Shringarpure	8	2021	$0.80 Add
From Foreward & Introduction From: Cultural Industries.ca View James Lorimer and Company	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 Introduction From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	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