Media & Communication Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Victims People From: The Trauma Beat View ECW Press	In this chapter, Cherry examines how the public and accidental nature of traffic fatalities impact the tone and intensity of the media coverage that surrounds it. Cherry includes the comments of …	Tamara Cherry	13	2023	$1.30 Add
From Video Games Production: Level Up From: Cultural Industries.ca View James Lorimer and Company	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
From Visiting American Journalists and the Aftermath From: Bearing Witness View Fernwood Publishing		Michael Dupuis	34	2017	$4.76 Add
From Visiting Canadian Journalists and the Aftermath From: Bearing Witness View Fernwood Publishing		Michael Dupuis	67	2017	$9.38 Add
From Wall Street’s Empire From: Washington's Long War on Syria View Baraka Books	The United States has an empire, even if it’s not often called one. More often, the U.S. Empire is widely referred to by various euphemisms, anodyne terms which make the unacceptable appear …	Stephen Gowans	20	2017	$2.00 Add
From Warrior Nation From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War View Goose Lane Editions	The author explores the rise of militarist attitudes in Canada and Canadian involvement in various wars and military operations around the world in recent history. The author discusses epic …	Noah Richler	80	2012	$8.00 Add
Washington’s Long War on Syria Baraka Books	When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The …	Stephen Gowans	280	2017	View
From Washington’s State Islamic Allies From: Washington's Long War on Syria View Baraka Books	Most people in the West remember the Arab Spring protests as touching the Arab republics—Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and of course, Libya and Syria. They seldom remember, or know at all, that …	Stephen Gowans	15	2017	$1.50 Add
From Watering the Garden The Chretien Years From: The Tangled Garden View James Lorimer and Company	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
From NEW! Welcome to the Revolution Part I: The Big Lie From: Has Populism Won? View ECW Press	The authors address the question of why populist movements have become so convincing. The chapter discusses several aspects including the everyman narrative, nationalism and nativism, cultural …	Daniel Drache; Marc D. Froese	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From West Coast Media: Ultra-Concentrated Ownership From: British Columbia Politics and Government View Emond Montgomery	Analysis of the concentration of ownership of mainstream news media in BC.	Marc Edge	18	2009	$1.80 Add
From What Is It with the Media! From: Man at the Airport View twp	In this chapter, Al Kontar discusses the media’s reaction to his social media campaign, and how the Western and Arab media organizations differed in their coverage.	Hassan Al Kontar	13	2021	$1.30 Add
From What is to be Done? From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War View Goose Lane Editions	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 From: The Socialist Register 2022 View Fernwood Publishing	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
What We Talk About When We Talk About War	An Amazon.ca Editor’s Pick for 2012 and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2012 Shortlisted, Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and …		376		View
From NEW! When the News Trucks Go Away From: The Trauma Beat View ECW Press	In this chapter, Cherry discusses the fatal Humboldt Broncos car crash that occurred in 2018. She includes excerpts of her interview with Laurie, whose son was among the passengers that did not …	Tamara Cherry	8	2023	$0.80 Add