Media & Communication Studies
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From  The Power of soundHistory and Biology From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Dings, and bings, various ringtones, and device alert our brains. They make us react. Not merely attentionally but neurophysiologically as well. The two are strongly biologically attached. The … | Mari K Swingle | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Sovereignty ProjectPart II: The Insurgency From: Has Populism Won? |
This chapter discusses the populist goal of regaining sovereignty lost during globalization. Including examples from leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Andrés Manuel López Obrador. | Daniel Drache; Marc D. Froese | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  The War Becomes a Mission (Impossible) |
This chapter focuses on Canadian public and military policy and the mythologisation of military history versus the reality of war. It discusses violence in our media and culture, "warrior … | Noah Richler | 61 | 2012 | $6.10 Add |
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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  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  Visiting American Journalists and the AftermathFrom: Bearing Witness |
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From  Watering the GardenThe Chretien Years From: The Tangled Garden |
A first‑hand account of the development of Canadian culture policy by the Brian Mulroney Conservative government (1984 to 1993). Focuses specifically on initiatives by former communications … | Richard Stursberg | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 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  NEW! "The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name"From: Len & Cub |
The authors talk about how Len & Cub’s story/photographs came to be preserved in the archive and how we can piece together their story. It also discusses queer historical context. | Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From Aunt Jemima in ChicagoFrom: Uncle |
In this chapter, Thompson explores the meaning of Uncle Tom within the context of the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Here, Thompson suggests, Americans became increasingly obsessed … | Cheryl Thompson | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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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 |
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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 |
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From  NEW! Chapter 4Glass ceilings and North stars |
This chapter provides a biography of Julie Payette, the first female Canadian astronaut. Topics discussed in this chapter include her experiences in space and a history of sexism in space exploration. | Elizabeth Howell | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 5Speaking Your Peace From: Beyond Contempt Collection: Online Conflict & Debate: Bridging the Divide |
In this chapter, the author provides methods for people to assert their political views effectively, and to realize that being peaceful doesn’t mean being passive. | Erica Etelson | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Educators and Education at a DistanceThe High-Tech Classroom and the New Mediated Learning From: Degrees of Failure |
If we continue pouring resources into an education at a distance centred on the “efficiency” of machine technology our universities will continue to replicate the computerized … | Randle W. Nelsen | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 Add |
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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 |
