Media & Society

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Breaking the Trance

Breaking the Trance

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

Media feeds were no longer resembling information distribution (fun or otherwise) they were starting to sound a lot like propaganda. Everything was now far too sweet to taste like truth and now … 16 $1.60 Add
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Building Schools for Girls

Building Schools for Girls

From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War

This chapter discusses Canada’s involvement in the "War on Terror" and the rise of nationalism and militarism that it has inspired. The Canadian government and media’s role … 50 $5.00 Add
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Burning Data

Burning Data

From: Reset

Chapter 4 turns to the often overlooked and largely obscured physical and material infrastructure of social media and the communications ecosystem. Although we tend to think of social media and … 47 $4.70 Add
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Canadian Cultural Policymaking in the Digital Era

Canadian Cultural Policymaking in the Digital Era

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

How the rise of digital media has affected cultural industries in Canada, specifically music, book and magazine publishing, radio, televsion and film arts. Analyzes the reaction of the Justin … 28 $2.80 Add
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Chapter 10: Telling Canadian Stories
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Chapter 10: Telling Canadian Stories

From: Canada Vs California

Chapter 10 discusses the need for Canadian Stories. Howard Law speaks to the core goals of the national media strategy as the means to build a collective identity and foster a nationhood in the … 7 $0.70 Add
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Coda
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Coda

Guess Who’s Coming to the Awards Dinner

From: Thinking While Black

In this chapter the author reflects on Armond White’s and Paul Gilroy’s careers as film and culture critics and intellectuals within the rebel generation. The author specifically … 20 $2.00 Add
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Community, Communication, Digital Mediation, and Friendship

Community, Communication, Digital Mediation, and Friendship

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

When we look at the changes in our own behavior due to i-tech, the first thing to very seriously consider is that the whole concept of social media was thought up by an individual who many … 20 $2.00 Add
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Concluding thoughts

Concluding thoughts

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Implementing a community-based social marketing strategy requires careful preliminary research, strategy development, piloting, implementation and evaluation. However, this attention to detail is … 7 $0.70 Add
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Conclusion

Conclusion

From: The Tangled Garden

Sums up book’s argument with a rationale for why it’s important to protect Canadian cultural expression, and why there is still time to do so. 6 $0.60 Add
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Conclusion

Conclusion

The Immortal Uncle Tom

From: Uncle

In the concluding chapter, Thompson summarizes her arguments, and suggests that Uncle Tom is quite possibly the most resilient figure in American history. 5 $0.50 Add
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Continuity and Change in the Discourse of Canada’s Cultural Industries

Continuity and Change in the Discourse of Canada’s Cultural Industries

From: Cultural Industries.ca

Zoë Druick reminds readers that what we call “the cultural industries” has changed over time. How we define something determines not only what we want to study, an … 16 $1.60 Add
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Covering Legal Issues
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Covering Legal Issues

From: Fundamental Law for Journalists

Chapter Four focuses on researching legal issues. Topics addressed include Legal Research, CanLII, Primary Law, Federal and Provincial Tribunals, CanLII Connects, Court Web Pages, Law Firm Web … 12 $1.20 Add
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Creating the Garden

Creating the Garden

From: The Tangled Garden

Provides a history of Canadian legislation and policy which protected domestic television, radio and other media. Summarizes developments 1920s to 1980s. 19 $1.90 Add
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Critical Media Research Methods:

Critical Media Research Methods:

Media Ownership and Concentration

From: Cultural Industries.ca

Dwayne Winseck takes a personal view, showing the complex and contradictory forms of knowledge used to make sense of one of the more complicated issues in political economic studies of the media, … 19 $1.90 Add
Cultural Industries.ca

Cultural Industries.ca

Making 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 … 248 View