Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate – The State of the Art

Introduction / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

1 Histories, Contexts, and Controversies / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

2 Implementing Communication Rights / Seán Ó Siochrú

Part 2: Communication Rights in Canada – An Assessment

3 The Horizontal View / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

4 Media / Marc Raboy

5 Access / Leslie Regan Shade

6 Internet / William J. McIver Jr.

7 Privacy / Leslie Regan Shade

8 Copyright / Laura J. Murray

Part 3: Policy Recommendations and Alternative Frameworks

9 Fixing Communication Rights in Canada / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

10 Toward a Canadian Right to Communicate / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

Appendices

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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A comprehensive, up-to-date account of the democratic deficits in Canada’s communications law and policy.

About the Author

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

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
- Stephen D. McDowell, co-author of Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion
"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.
- Robert A. Hackett, co-author of Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication