Media & Society
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() Big Oil and Think Tanks Besiege KyotoFrom: The Big Stall |
Examines the business led campaign to discredit the Kyoto Accord in the 1990s and 2000s. Big business lobbied for a "made in Canada" solution while funding a massive anti-Kyoto … | Donald Gutstein | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
From ![]() Book Publishing:Dying One Chapter(s) at a Time? From: Cultural Industries.ca |
In Jeff Boggs’s article on book publishing the changing nature of the audience and technologies serves as the focus | Jeff Boggs | 16 | 2012 | $1.60 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Enlarging the American CinemaArmond 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 … | Daniel McNeil | 44 | 2022 | $4.40 Add |
From ![]() Hips Don’t LieChapter 4 From: Decolonize Hipsters |
In Hips Don’t Lie, Pierrot reflects on the present state of hipsterdom after the Black Lives Matter movement. Pierrot provides a call to action which must reflect on and move away from … | Grégory Pierrot | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
From ![]() July 2020: The Lie of Personal ResponsibilityFrom: Spin Doctors |
In this chapter, Loreto examines the neoliberal politics employed by politicians and the media to encourage a sense of individual responsibility to prevent further spread of the virus. Loreto … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() NEW! OverexposedFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry explores the ethical issues surrounding crime scene photographs. Cherry reflects on her experiences as a reporter desperate to get the ‘body shot’, the high … | Tamara Cherry | 11 | 2023 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() Retreat, Reform, RestraintFrom: Reset |
In the final chapter, the author turns to the question “What is to be done?” The negative implications of social media are increasingly acknowledged and well documented. But what to … | Ronald J. Deibert | 68 | 2020 | $6.80 Add |
From ![]() The Biological ScienceWhat's Really Going on in Our Brains? From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
I am going to get down to the hard science: what really goes on in our brains when we overengage in i-tech. To this end, I will introduce modalities that permit us to examine the i-phenomenon at … | Mari K Swingle | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
From ![]() NEW! The Book |
This chapter explores "The Book" and its power. | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() The Changing Canadian LandscapeFrom: The Next Big Thing |
"In the fall of 2007, Toronto Star columnist Chantal Hébert came from Montreal thinking about new politics in Quebec from the perspective of one who spent a career writing about … | Chantal Hébert | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() NEW! The Criminal Law System |
Chapter Five explains the Criminal Law System. Topics discussed include concepts in Criminal Law (Voluntariness, Causation, Strict Liability, Subjective, and Objective Mens Rea), murder, intent, … | Mark Bourrie | 48 | 2023 | $4.80 Add |
From ![]() The Garden InvadedThe Harper Years From: The Tangled Garden |
Developments in key Canadian creative industries (eg. television, film, newspapers) during Stephen Harper’s Conservative era (2006 to 2015); how the digital media produced a drastic decline … | Richard Stursberg | 37 | 2019 | $3.70 Add |
From ![]() The Little Dumb FoundlingHans Christian Andersen's Ugly Little Duckings From: Disfigured |
Chapter 5 focuses on the work of Hans Christian Andersen, exploring topics including “The Little Mermaid”, Andersen’s own disability, Andersen’s book "The … | Amanda Leduc | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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 |
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 |
From ![]() August 2020: The End of CERBFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter discuss Covid-19 during August 2020. Loreto examines the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (cerb); discussing who was eligible and when, how it impacted Canadians, and what the … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |