Media & Communication Studies
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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 |
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From  NEW! What They DeserveFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Four of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," focusing on government communications and journalism. Discussions … | Robert Ashe | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 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 |
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From NEW! Widow KimFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry examines the media coverage surrounding the death of constable William Hancox. Cherry includes excerpts from her interview with the widow of the deceased, who describes … | Tamara Cherry | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 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 |
 Won’t Get Fooled AgainA Graphic Guide to Fake News |
“Fake news!” screams Donald Trump from his Twitter account when journalists ask tough questions about his past or present behaviour. Meanwhile, his Fox & Friends fan club makes … | Alan Spinney; Erin Steuter | 208 | 2020 | View |
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From  Work and Community in Networked OrganizationsFrom: Cyberidentities |
This research shows how the social network approach allowed assessment of the types of information exchange and media that were important to the group as a whole, and important to particular pairs. | Caroline Haythornthwaite | 11 | 1999 | $1.54 Add |
 Working for the Common GoodCanadian Women Politicians |
In Working for the Common Good, Madelyn Holmes details the political policy work of eight social democratic Canadian women and highlights their largely unrecognized struggles and accomplishments. | Madelyn Holmes | 182 | 2017 | View |
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From Working for the Common Good in the CCF/NDP |
Madelyn Holmes | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add | |
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From Yes, I Will Wait: In Praise of Long Journeys, Long Interviews, and Longer StaysFrom: The Next Big Thing |
"In the fall of 2012, Nahlah Ayed was based in London and covering the world for the CBC. Her stories were filed from Riyadh and Tehran, Beirut and Baghdad, India, Pakistan, Kenya, and … | Nahlah Ayed | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
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From You’re a Celebrity NowFrom: Man at the Airport |
In this chapter, Al Kontar writes about his growing fame, and his interactions with people whose interest in him was motivated by selfish reasons. | Hassan Al Kontar | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
