Media & Society
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 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 |
 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 |
 NEW! UncleRace, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Uncle |
In the introduction, the author discusses her lifelong fascination with the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. | Cheryl Thompson | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From Film and Television:A Success? From: Cultural Industries.ca |
In Peter Urquhart’s chapter on film and television, he argues that the lens through which one examines the relative success or failure of these industries directly affects the conclusions … | Peter Urquhart | 16 | 2012 | $1.60 Add |
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From  The Current CrisisFrom: The Tangled Garden Collection: Media and Society: Canadian Cases and Issues |
Documents Canada’s cultural policies as they stand today. Specifically focusing on Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government and Melanie Joly’s tenure as Canada’s minister for … | Richard Stursberg | 32 | 2019 | $3.20 Add |
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From The ShiftFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Every era has an innovation that changes the face of society: the way we think, the way we act and interact as individuals, as a community, and as a culture. As the innovation is introduced, it … | Mari K Swingle | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Uncle Tom’s CabinFrom: Uncle |
This chapter explores Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, which was an explosive success in antebellum America. It also examines Uncle Tom himself, who in the novel was a devout and pious … | Cheryl Thompson | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From Creating the GardenFrom: The Tangled Garden |
Provides a history of Canadian legislation and policy which protected domestic television, radio and other media. Summarizes developments 1920s to 1980s. | Richard Stursberg | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From Sound Recording and Radio:Intersections and Overlaps From: Cultural Industries.ca |
The interrelationship between radio and sound recording is the overarching theme in Richard Sutherland’s article. | Richard Sutherland | 20 | 2012 | $2.00 Add |
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From Technological Integration Versus Technological InterferenceFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
At the onset of the i-tech phenomenon, most of us first noted surface changes. For example, what we perceived as an emergent shallowness of information, a subtle lack of depth and length of … | Mari K Swingle | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Uncle Tom and EvaFrom: Uncle |
In this chapter, Thompson examines the illustrations that gave Uncle Tom’s Cabin much of its lasting appeal. | Cheryl Thompson | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Minstel Show TomFrom: Uncle |
This chapter examines the phenomenon of minstrelsy, and how Uncle Tom came to be depicted in minstrel shows. | Cheryl Thompson | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From Newspapers and Magazines:Of Crows and Finches From: Cultural Industries.ca |
In Chris Dornan’s chapter on newspapers and magazines, the changing nature of the audience and technologies serves as the focus | Christopher Dornan | 24 | 2012 | $2.40 Add |
