Media & Communication Studies
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From  NEW! Victims PeopleFrom: The Trauma Beat |
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 |
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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 |
Michael Dupuis | 34 | 2017 | $4.76 Add | |
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From Visiting Canadian Journalists and the AftermathFrom: Bearing Witness |
Michael Dupuis | 67 | 2017 | $9.38 Add | |
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From  Wall Street’s Empire |
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 |
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From  Warrior Nation |
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 |
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 |
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From Washington’s State Islamic Allies |
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 |
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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  NEW! Welcome to the RevolutionPart I: The Big Lie From: Has Populism Won? |
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 |
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From  West Coast Media: Ultra-Concentrated Ownership |
Analysis of the concentration of ownership of mainstream news media in BC. | Marc Edge | 18 | 2009 | $1.80 Add |
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From  What Is It with the Media!From: Man at the Airport |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 | ||
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From NEW! When the News Trucks Go AwayFrom: The Trauma Beat |
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 |
