Media & Society
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From  ManifestoFrom: The Tangled Garden |
Summarizes why Canada’s media industry is at a crisis and why, absent intervention, remaining major media are likely to shut down. Canadian media institutions like Postmedia, the Toronto … | Richard Stursberg | 33 | 2019 | $3.30 Add |
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From  March 2021: One Year in Media CutsFrom: Spin Doctors |
In this chapter, Loreto examine why the Canadian media had frequently reported on Covid-19 using the narrative being peddled by the government, without providing any investigative alternatives. … | Nora Loreto | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Marketing the Imaginary IndianFrom: The Imaginary Indian |
Many aspects of Native culture have been appropriated over the years and turned into commodities to help sell products in the marketplace. Each time they respond to a sales pitch which features … | Daniel Francis | 41 | 1992 | $4.10 Add |
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From  Marketing the Imaginary Indian |
Many aspects of Native culture have been appropriated over the years and turned into commodities to help sell products in the marketplace. Each time they respond to a sales pitch which features … | Daniel Francis | 41 | 1992 | $1.64 Add |
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From May 2020: COVID-19 Hits Food Processing IndustriesFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter covers how Covid-19 impacted food processing industries. Loreto examines how the workers in grocery stores, factories, and plants were "hailed as frontline heroes and treated as … | Nora Loreto | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Middle-Aged, Gifted and BlackStructures of Feeling in the Black Atlantic From: Thinking While Black |
In this chapter the author connects Armond White’s film criticism in the New York Press and Paul Gilroy’s academic career at Goldsmiths College in London between the years of 1997 to … | Daniel McNeil | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Minstrel 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  Monsters and MarvelsFrom: Disfigured |
Chapter 8 focuses on the fine line between what is considered monstrous and the marvellous in fairy tales and real life, exploring topics such as superheros, circus and spectacle, … | Amanda Leduc | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
 NEW! Inside the Montreal MafiaThe Confessions of Andrew Scoppa |
A groundbreaking, exclusive inside look at the North American Mafia and the Rizzuto family. For the first time in Canadian history, a high-ranking Mafioso agreed to break the code of omertà by … | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 240 | 2022 | View |
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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 |
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From  Notes and Sources |
Notes and Sources. | Noah Richler | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |
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From November 2020: The Race for the VaccineFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter discusses the Covid-19 vaccine. Loreto examines how the vaccine was introduced by the government and framed in the media, as well as the response of Canadians to the announcement of … | Nora Loreto | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From O.J. Simpson, a Passing UncleFrom: Uncle |
In this chapter, Thompson explores the O.J. Simpson trial, which she calls "a symbolic clash between a ‘real’ Black man on trial for his life and an ‘Uncle Tom’ Black … | Cheryl Thompson | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From October 2020: Migrant Workers and COVID-19From: Spin Doctors |
This chapter focuses on how Covid-19 impacted migrant workers in Canada. Loreto discuss the work and living conditions of various farms in Canada during Covid-19, as well as how the government … | Nora Loreto | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Of Games and GamingFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
I am going to go a bit deeper exploring the specifics of the supposed benefits of gaming as they relate to learning. Within this I’m going to put a microscope over some of the gaming … | Mari K Swingle | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From Of Systems and ProcessFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
We want to teach children not only how to use technologies, but how to choose technologies, and how to make them. We also want to teach them the caveats including biological hijacking and … | Mari K Swingle | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add |
