Media & Society
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From  Vaudeville TomFrom: Uncle |
This chapter describes the evolution of minstrelsy into vaudeville, and how this new form of entertainment brought new meaning to the character of Uncle Tom. | Cheryl Thompson | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Victims PeopleFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry examines how the public and accidental nature of traffic fatalities impact the tone and intensity of the media coverage that surrounds it. Cherry includes the comments of … | Tamara Cherry | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Video Games Production:Level Up From: Cultural Industries.ca |
Greig de Peuter’s chapter draws attention not only to a new and important area of the cultural industries, that of video game production, but also to new kinds of working conditions facing … | Greig de Peuter | 17 | 2012 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Warrior Nation |
The author explores the rise of militarist attitudes in Canada and Canadian involvement in various wars and military operations around the world in recent history. The author discusses epic … | Noah Richler | 80 | 2012 | $8.00 Add |
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From What is to be Done? |
The author muses on Canadian culture and the ideas of epics and epic behaviour, which reduce the world to a dichotomy of black and white and as a result encourage militarism/"warrior … | Noah Richler | 46 | 2012 | $4.60 Add |
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From  NEW! What is Wrong with Social Media?An Anti-Capitalist Critique |
Marcus Gilroy-Ware provides an authoritative and skeptical assessment of ‘what is wrong with social media’ and places the social pathologies they amplify within the capitalist … | Marcus Gilroy-Ware | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! What They DeserveFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Four of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on government communications and journalism. Discussions … | Robert Ashe | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
What We Talk About When We Talk About War |
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 … | 376 | View | ||
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From NEW! When the News Trucks Go AwayFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry discusses the fatal Humboldt Broncos car crash that occurred in 2018. She includes excerpts of her interview with Laurie, whose son was among the passengers that did not … | Tamara Cherry | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Widow KimFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry examines the media coverage surrounding the death of constable William Hancox. Cherry includes excerpts from her interview with the widow of the deceased, who describes … | Tamara Cherry | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Witness to a CountryFrom: The Next Big Thing |
"In the fall of 2006, Roy MacGregor, veteran newspaperman, magazine writer, and author of books, came to campus. Since 2002, MacGregor had been writing columns for the Globe and Mail, but he … | Roy MacGregor | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From Yes, I Will Wait: In Praise of Long Journeys, Long Interviews, and Longer StaysFrom: The Next Big Thing |
"In the fall of 2012, Nahlah Ayed was based in London and covering the world for the CBC. Her stories were filed from Riyadh and Tehran, Beirut and Baghdad, India, Pakistan, Kenya, and … | Nahlah Ayed | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
