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Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media

Author : David Taras
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442600519
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media written by David Taras and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian media system, which in many respects is this society's "meeting ground"its public squareis in the midst of a profound shift away from the foundations on which it has rested comfortably for decades. The publicly financed Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, long the backbone of the broadcasting system, is threatened by budget cuts and by technological change. The newspaper industry has fallen into the hands of a few powerful individuals. Huge global corporations and a vast communications revolution are dramatically altering the nature of news and entertainment. This book argues that unless action is taken these changes will narrow our access to the information we need as citizens and damage our capacity to communicate with each other and reflect on ourselves as a community. Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media is a sweeping exploration of the Canadian media system and the impact it has on Canadian society, politics, and culture.

Last Word

Author : Florian Sauvageau
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841494
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Last Word written by Florian Sauvageau and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada has emerged as a crucial factor not only for judges and journalists but also for the public. It's the media, after all, that decide which court rulings to cover and how. They translate highly complex judgments into concise and meaningful news stories that will appeal to, and be understood by, the general public. Thus, judges lose control of the message once they hand down decisions, and journalists have the last word. To show how the Supreme Court has fared under the media spotlight, Sauvageau, Schneiderman, and Taras examine a year in the life of the court and then focus on the media coverage of four high-profile decisions: the Marshall case, about Aboriginal rights; the Vriend case, about gay rights; the Quebec Secession Reference; and the Sharpe child pornography case. They explore the differences between television and newspaper coverage, national and regional reporting, and the French- and English-language media. They also describe how judges and journalists understand and interact with one another amid often-clashing legal and journalistic cultures, offering a rich and detailed account of the relationship between two of the most important institutions in Canadian life.

How Canadians Communicate IV

Author : David Taras
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1926836812
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book How Canadians Communicate IV written by David Taras and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, up to date, and probing examination of media and politics in Canada.

Media, Profit, and Politics

Author : Joe Harper
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873387545
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Media, Profit, and Politics written by Joe Harper and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of essays and commentary delivered at the second annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy, this work recognizes and considers the differences that arise when the competitive forces of commerce clash with the demand for the open availability of information in a democratic society. The conflicting roles of advocate-initiator and objective reporter for journalists who cover community politics; the role of the news media in forming public attitudes toward things political and their role in affecting voter nonparticipation; the role of financial considerations in the news media's attempt to provide citizens with needed news and perspective on political affairs; and particularly the role of the conglomeration of ownership of news media organizations are a few of the topics discussed in this volume.

In the News, 3rd edition

Author : William Wray Carney
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772124249
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book In the News, 3rd edition written by William Wray Carney and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, In the News is the standard Canadian textbook on media relations, used across the country. The authors provide an introduction to media relations, grounded in both communications theory and hands-on, day-to-day experience. Whether you need to promote your issues to the nation or reach small, targeted groups, this book is your step-by-step guide. In the News is perfect for communications students; media relations practitioners in the private, public and voluntary sectors; and anyone who wants to break a story.

Converging Media, Diverging Politics

Author : Mike Gasher
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739113066
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Converging Media, Diverging Politics written by Mike Gasher and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and Canada investigate this question, exploring the effects of media concentration in democratic systems. Specifically, the scholars collected here consider, from a range of vantage points, how corporate and technological convergence in the news industry in the United States and Canada impacts journalism's expressed role as a medium of democratic communication. More generally, and by necessity, Converging Media, Diverging Politics speaks to larger questions about the role that the production and circulation of news and information does, can, and should serve. The editors have gathered an impressive array of critical essays, featuring interesting and well-documented case studies that will prove useful to both students and researchers of communications and media studies.

Political Communication in Canada

Author : Alex Marland
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774827785
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Political Communication in Canada written by Alex Marland and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in technology and media consumption are transforming the way people communicate about politics. Are they also changing the way politicians communicate to the public? Political Communication in Canada examines the way political parties, politicians, interest groups, the media, and citizens are using new tactics, tools, and channels to disseminate information, and also investigates the implications of these changes. Drawing on recent examples, contributors review such things as the branding of the New Democratic Party, how Stephen Harper’s image is managed, and politicians’ use of Twitter. They also discuss the evolving role of political journalism, including media coverage of politics and how Canadians use the Internet for political discussions. In an era when political communication – from political marketing to citizen journalism – is of vital importance to the workings of government, this timely volume provides insight into the future of Canadian democracy.

Losing Confidence

Author : Elizabeth May
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551994054
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Losing Confidence written by Elizabeth May and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ringing manifesto for change from Canada’s Green Party leader and Activist. We Canadians are waking up from our long political slumber to realize that there will not be change unless we insist upon it. We have a presidential-style prime minister without the checks and balances of either the US or the Canadian systems. Attack ads run constantly, backbenchers and cabinet ministers alike are muzzled, committees are deadlocked, and civility has disappeared from the House of Commons. In Losing Confidence, Elizabeth May outlines these and other problems of our political system, and offers inspiring solutions to the dilemmas we face. “We no longer behead people in Canada, but Stephen Harper’s coup d’état cannot be allowed to stand, not least because of the precedent. Any future government can now slip the leash of democracy in the same way. This is how constitutions fail.” - Ronald Wright

The Politics of Ontario

Author : Cheryl N. Collier
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144260915X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Ontario written by Cheryl N. Collier and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontario is the most populous of Canada's provinces, contains the country's largest city, and continues to be the centre of finance, IT, and media. It is also experiencing significant changes and upheavals. The Politics of Ontario is the first comprehensive book on Ontario's politics, government, and public policy since Graham White's The Government and Politics of Ontario in 1997. Although The Politics of Ontario follows in the same tradition, it departs in several ways. While not losing sight of the enduring themes of Ontario politics and political culture, it reflects the fact that Ontario is no longer Canada's primary economic engine. Instead of emphasizing the continuity and gradual evolution of Ontario politics, it focuses on change, disruption, and the uncertainty of the political and policy environment through explorations of fiscal and economic policy, the environment, labour, multiculturalism, and the complexities of urbanization, with particular attention given to greater Toronto. The book is divided into four parts: Settings, Institutions, Politics, and Policy. It contains 28 charts, tables, and graphs, and features contributions by virtually all of the leading scholars in the field, including an introductory chapter by Graham White.

Crash to Paywall

Author : Brian Gorman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773597611
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Crash to Paywall written by Brian Gorman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, when Postmedia acquired Quebecor's Sun Media newspaper and online assets, there was a sense that the recent history of newspapers was repeating itself not as comedy or tragedy, but as eulogy. Crash to Paywall shows that while the newspaper business was weakened by decreases in advertising revenues and circulation, much of its problems stem from self-inflicted damage and business practices dating back to the 1970s. Brian Gorman explores the Canadian newspaper industry crisis and the relationship between the news media and the public. He challenges both the popular mantra that a "perfect storm" of unforeseen circumstances blindsided a declining industry and the narrative that readers were abandoning newspapers, causing advertisers to turn away from "dying" media. Gorman argues that observers had been warning for decades that the business was creating its own problems by acquiring ever-larger debt and shareholder obligations while steadily cutting back on journalists' resources. Finally, by providing journalism for free online, newspaper companies devalued their most important resource and impaired their profitable print products. With dozens of interviews conducted with leading Canadian journalists and editors, Crash to Paywall brings to light the many misconceptions, generalizations, omissions, and highly suspect conclusions about the present state of newspapers and their future.

Journalism and Political Exclusion

Author : Debra M. Clarke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773590129
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Journalism and Political Exclusion written by Debra M. Clarke and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The constraints of news production and the consequent limitations of news result directly in dissatisfaction throughout news audiences. News stories are frequently found to be inadequately informative to the extent that journalism is more inclined to generate political disenchantment, rather than prompt its audiences to pursue a fully engaged level of political participation in their societies. Journalism and Political Exclusion provides a multi-method, integrated analysis of news production and news audiences, including a long-term study of community activists in a central Canadian city. During the seven-year fieldwork period, different groups of research participants completed questionnaires, wrote news diaries, and were interviewed in their homes while viewing network television newscasts. Clarke shows that frustrations with the informational limitations of television and other news media are accelerated among women and the working-class often lack opportunities to access alternative information sources. The critical contribution of journalism to the production and reproduction of ideas about social reality is frequently acknowledged and assumed yet rarely investigated and demonstrated. Through an examination of the everyday realities of both news production and news reception, Journalism and Political Exclusion also shows how the current "crises" of professional journalism heighten the level of political exclusion experienced by various social groups.

Publicity and the Canadian State

Author : Kirsten Kozolanka
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442615907
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Publicity and the Canadian State written by Kirsten Kozolanka and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publicity and the Canadian State is the first sustained study of the contemporary practices of political communication, focusing holistically on the tools of the publicity state and their ideological underpinnings: advertising, public opinion research, marketing, branding, image consulting, and media and information management, as well as related topics such as election law and finance, privacy, think-tank lobbying, and non-election communication campaigns."--Publishers website

Celebrity Cultures in Canada

Author : Katja Lee
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771122242
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Celebrity Cultures in Canada written by Katja Lee and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity Cultures in Canada is an interdisciplinary collection that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. The chapters address a variety of cultural venues—politics, sports, film, and literature—and examine the political, cultural, material, and affective conditions that shaped celebrity in Canada and its uses both at home and abroad. The scope of the book enables the authors to highlight the trends that characterize Canadian celebrity—such as transnationality and bureaucracy—and explore the regional, linguistic, administrative, and indigenous cultures and institutions that distinguish fame in Canada from fame elsewhere. In historicizing and theorizing Canada’s complicated cultures of celebrity, Celebrity Cultures in Canada rejects the argument that nations are irrelevant in today’s global celebrityscapes or that Canada lacks a credible or adequate system for producing, distributing, and consuming celebrity. Nation and national identities continue to matter—to celebrities, to fans, and to institutions and industries that manage and profit from celebrity systems—and Canada, this collection argues, has a vibrant, powerful, and often complicated and controversial relationship to fame.

How Claims Spread

Author : Joel Best
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202366494
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book How Claims Spread written by Joel Best and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best's anthology examines for the first time how diverse social issues--road rage, the metric system, gun control, and abortion are among those included--migrate across national boundaries, modifying themselves from place to place as a result of different claims, claimsmakers, and policy responses. This unique collection, assembled from new research by an international group of social problems scholars, will fill a gap in undergraduate and graduate level studies in the constructionist analyses of social problems, as well as in political science, public policy, and criminology. Claims concerning one social problem often influence those about another: claimsmakers borrow rhetoric and tactics from one another. In some cases, experienced claimsmakers join efforts to call attention to other social problems: compelling images (e.g., the threatened child or random violence) link claims about different problems and reactions to one set of claims. These case studies describe very different processes, ranging from deliberate attempts to disseminate social problem claims to developments that were more inadvertent, from successes in which social problem constructions spread to new countries to failures in which claims were sown, but failed to take root. They are intended to suggest that the diffusion of social problems is neither simple nor automatic. Joel Best is professor and chair, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware. He has served as an editorial advisor for Aldine that has produced fifty titles.

In the News

Author : William Wray Carney
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888643827
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book In the News written by William Wray Carney and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the concepts surrounding media relations and explains current media and communications practices, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. (Midwest).

Fighting for Votes

Author : William P. Cross
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774829303
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Votes written by William P. Cross and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections are not just about who casts ballots – they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes examines how these factors interacted during a recent Ontario election. The authors begin by examining the province’s political culture and history. They then delve deeply into the campaign by exploring three lines of enquiry that help define representative democracy: How do parties position themselves to appeal to voters? How is information from and about parties transmitted to voters? And how do voters respond to the information around them? Looking at information from a wealth of sources – from political party websites and debate transcripts to Twitter feeds – they provide a sophisticated analysis of the interplay between voters and political parties in an era of new media. The most complete account of a provincial election available, Fighting for Votes illuminates the evolving electoral landscape.

Journalism in Crisis

Author : Mike Gasher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144262888X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Journalism in Crisis written by Mike Gasher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalism in Crisis addresses the concerns of scholars, activists, and journalists committed to Canadian journalism as a democratic institution and as a set of democratic practices. The authors look within Canada and abroad for solutions for balancing the Canadian media ecology. Public policies have been central to the creation and shaping of Canada's media system and, rather than wait for new technologies or economic models, the contributors offer concrete recommendations for how public policies can foster journalism that can support democratic life in twenty-first century Canada. Their work, which includes new theoretical perspectives and valuable discussions of journalism practices in public, private, and community media, should be read by professional and citizen journalists, academics, media activists, policy makers and media audiences concerned about the future of democratic journalism in Canada.