Overview
Media Divides offers a comprehensive democratic audit of communications law and policy. Using the concept of communications rights as a framework for analysis in five key domains – media, access, the Internet, privacy, and copyright – leading analysts reveal that Canada’s failure to respond adequately to a host of pressures and developments has left its citizens with unequal access to the nation’s communications system and the freedom of expression it promises. Media Divides not only offers the first up-to-date account of the democratic deficits in Canada’s communications policy, it formulates recommendations – including the establishment of a Canadian right to communicate – for the future.
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Author: Marc Raboy ,
Jeremy Shtern ,
William J. McIver ,
Laura J. Murray
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
Weight: 0.640kg
ISBN: 9780774817752
ISBN 10: 0774817755
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 January 2011
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Media Divides will serve not only as a resource for researchers and policy analysts, but will also be very useful for those teaching courses in communication law and policy. This volume serves as a core contribution by providing an overview of the idea of communication rights in Canada and tying together areas that are treated separately or in a narrower scope in other work<br>- Stephen D. McDowell, co-author of Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion <br> Media Divides makes a singular contribution to a topic of considerable urgency and importance. It is a comprehensive democratic audit of Canadian communications policy, at a critical moment in its evolution, one that could determine whether our information and communication technology environment proceeds full speed in a market-oriented neoliberal direction, or instead, preserves and strengthens broader democratic values.<br>- Robert A. Hackett, co-author of Remaking Media: The Struggl
Media Divides will serve not only as a resource for researchers and policy analysts, but will also be very useful for those teaching courses in communication law and policy. This volume serves as a core contribution by providing an overview of the idea of communication rights in Canada and tying together areas that are treated separately or in a narrower scope in other work<br>- Stephen D. McDowell, co-author of Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion<br><br> Media Divides makes a singular contribution to a topic of considerable urgency and importance. It is a comprehensive democratic audit of Canadian communications policy, at a critical moment in its evolution, one that could determine whether our information and communication technology environment proceeds full speed in a market-oriented neoliberal direction, or instead, preserves and strengthens broader democratic values.<br>- Robert A. Hackett, co-author of Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication
Media Divides will serve not only as a resource for researchers and policy analysts, but will also be very useful for those teaching courses in communication law and policy. This volume serves as a core contribution by providing an overview of the idea of communication rights in Canada and tying together areas that are treated separately or in a narrower scope in other work<br>- Stephen D. McDowell, co-author of Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion <br> Media Divides makes a singular contribution to a topic of considerable urgency and importance. It is a comprehensive democratic audit of Canadian communications policy, at a critical moment in its evolution, one that could determine whether our information and communication technology environment proceeds full speed in a market-oriented neoliberal direction, or instead, preserves and strengthens broader democratic values.<br>- Robert A. Hackett, co-author of Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication
Author Information
Marc Raboy is Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Jeremy Shtern is a Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University. Contributors: William J. McIver Jr., Laura J. Murray, Leslie Regan Shade, Seán Ó Siochrú
