Media & Society

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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
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December  2020: The Gendered Impact

December 2020: The Gendered Impact

From: Spin Doctors

In this chapter, Loreto explores the gendered-impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Childcare, gendered violence, economic recession, and government failures are discussed. 24 $2.40 Add
Decolonize Hipsters

Decolonize Hipsters

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 … 148 View
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Democracy, Technology, and Communication in Canada

Democracy, Technology, and Communication in Canada

From: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition

Excerpt of a 2005 book by Darin Barney, Communication Technology, exploring the effect of information and communication technologies on Canadian democracy. ; ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Disability

Disability

A Fairy Tale

From: Disfigured

Chapter 2 focuses on concepts of disability through time, discussing topics including the social model of disability and the medical model of disability, disability as something to be cured, … 28 $2.80 Add
Disfigured

Disfigured

On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

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 … 257 View
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Duped and How

Duped and How

Silencing the Voices of Others with Jason Stanley

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Stanley explained there are a number of rhetorical and linguistic tactics that are being used now to silence people, and one of the most blatant is the misappropriation of words such as ethical … 8 $0.80 Add
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Duped and How

Duped and How

Gaslighting Blurs our Reality with Bryant Welch

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Welch said that today’s gaslighters work in the public square to create confusion and prey on public vulnerability, using sophisticated forms of manipulation, mind games and PR spin. … 6 $0.60 Add
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Enlarging the American Cinema
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Enlarging the American Cinema

Armond White vs. the Straight Middle-Class White World (and the Black Bourgeoisie)

From: Thinking While Black

In this chapter the author examines Armond White’s wildly overlooked film criticism of the 1980’s and 1990’s to shed light on his contributions to resistance aesthetics and film … 44 $4.40 Add
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Epilogue

Epilogue

So What to Do?

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

I believe we owe it to ourselves to keep one face, one mind, firmly fixed on the past while the other mind bravely looks forward, embracing change. 5 $0.50 Add
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Epilogue: Making a Myth

Epilogue: Making a Myth

From: Einstein on Israel and Zionism

In this chapter, Jerome examines how the myth of Einstein as a champion of Israel was constructed in U.S. media after his death in 1955. 6 $0.60 Add
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Ethnic Broadcasting:

Ethnic Broadcasting:

A History

From: Cultural Industries.ca

Mark Hayward’s institutional history of multicultural television draws attention to the largely forgotten history of multicultural media in this country and to the tendency to study the … 16 $1.60 Add
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Family
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Family

From: Inside the Montreal Mafia

This chapter explores Scoppa’s brother and more mafia history. ; 17 $1.70 Add
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February 2021: Workplace Spread

February 2021: Workplace Spread

From: Spin Doctors

This chapter explores the second wave of the pandemic in the winter of 2021, and the role that workplaces played in the spread of the virus. 26 $2.60 Add