Media & Communications Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! One Year In A Hopeful New Normal From: Shadows and Light View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Four examines the progress made and new challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic one year in by the winter of 2021. Topics discussed include the idea of the ‘New Normal,’ the …	Heather Patterson	15	2022	$1.50 Add
From NEW! Pandemic Insight Connection and Kindness From: Shadows and Light View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Two focuses on the insight learned from these early experiences of working through these first two waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.Topics discussed include the effects of Covid-19 on …	Heather Patterson	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Pandemic Insight It Takes a Team From: Shadows and Light View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Three focuses on the collaborative efforts within the hospitals to fight off the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include giving recognition to the behind the scenes staffing such as …	Heather Patterson	13	2022	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Pandemic Insight COVID’s Long Shadow From: Shadows and Light View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Seven examines the lasting effects of Covid-19 and the pandemic which will take years to overcome. Topics discussed include the effects of Covid-19 on Emergency Departments, Surgical …	Heather Patterson	21	2022	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Pandemic Insight Time to Create Change From: Shadows and Light View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Eight reflects on what we can learn from the pandemic and how we should move forward both personally and professionally. Topics discussed include the long road to recovery, the trauma …	Heather Patterson	13	2022	$1.30 Add
Reset Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society House of Anansi Press	In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the …	Ronald J. Deibert	339	2020	View
Rethinking Free Speech Fernwood Publishing	Clashes over free speech rights and wrongs haunt public debates about the state of democracy, freedom and the future. While freedom of speech is recognized as foundational to democratic society, …	Peter Ives	216	2024	View
From Retreat, Reform, Restraint From: Reset View House of Anansi Press	In the final chapter, the author turns to the question “What is to be done?” The negative implications of social media are increasingly acknowledged and well documented. But what to …	Ronald J. Deibert	68	2020	$6.80 Add
From River of Madness From: Man at the Airport View twp	This chapter describes the author’s time in jail for overstaying his work visa, the death of his father, and his deportation to Kuala Lumpur.	Hassan Al Kontar	30	2021	$3.00 Add
From September 2020: Back to School From: Spin Doctors View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter examines Covid-19 in relation to schools. Loreto discusses how the transitions from in person and online classes impacted Covid outbreaks, as well as how public policy and the media …	Nora Loreto	22	2021	$2.20 Add
NEW! Shadows and Light A Physician's Lens on Covid Goose Lane Editions	When the pandemic began in March 2020, Calgary emergency physician Heather Patterson was already feeling burnt out. Photography had always been a way of unwinding for her, and as the pandemic …	Heather Patterson	176	2022	View
From Social Media From: Rethinking Free Speech View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, Ives examines how social media platforms have reshaped democratic discourse, tracing the evolution from the 1996 Communications Decency Act to contemporary debates.	Peter Ives	33	2024	$3.30 Add
From Speed Kills From: Spin View House of Anansi Press	From Spin: Politics and Marketing in a Divided Age	Clive Veroni	29	2014	$2.90 Add
Spin Politics and Marketing in a Divided Age House of Anansi Press	Aided by masses of data, sophisticated computer modelling, and smart manipulation of social media, political strategists are reshaping the way voters think. And act. Clive Veroni analyzes the …	Clive Veroni	367	2014	View
Spin Doctors How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the Covid-19 Pandemic	As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that …		417		View
From NEW! Sweden: Balancing the Public’s Right to Privacy and the Public’s Right to Know, Looking at privacy challenges that arise from embracing transparency, with a focus on the publication of criminal conviction information From: Open Governments, Secret Canada View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, Malone examines Sweden’s problems with transparency under the European Union privacy law, contrasting this struggle with Canada’s, Access to Information Act.	Matt Malone	19	2026	$1.90 Add