Table of Contents

• Introduction: The New World of Communications in Canada
• David Taras
• Government and Corporate Policies
• From Master to Partner to Bit Player: The Diminishing Capacity of Government Policy
• Richard Schultz
• No Clear Channel: The Rise and Possible Fall of Media Convergence
• Vincent A. Carlin
• Canadian Memory Institutions and the Digital Revolution: The Last Five. Years
• Frits Pannekoek
• Canadian Media and Canadian Identity
• Printed Matter: Canadian Newspapers
• Christopher Dornan
• Publishing and Perishing with No Parachute
• Aritha van Herk
• Canadian Television: Industry, Audience, and Technology
• Rebecca Sullivan and Bart Beaty
• In from the Cold: Aboriginal Media in Canada
• Cora Voyageur
• Film and Film Culture in Canada: Which Way Forward
• Malek Khouri
• No Future? The Canadian Music Industries
• Will Straw
• New Media and Canadian Society
• "Unhyping" the Internet: At Home with a New Medium
• Maria Bakardjieva
• Telehealth in Canada
• M.A. Herbert, P.A. Jennett, and R.E. Scott
• From the "Electirc Cottage" to the "Silicon Sweatshop": Social Implications of Telemediated Work in Canada
• Graham D. Longford and Barbara A. Crow

About the Author

David Taras is a professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. Frits Pannekoek teaches in the Faculties of Communication and Culture and Environmental Design and Director of Information Resources at the University of Calgary. Maria Bakardjieva is assistant professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on the interaction between communication technology and society.

Reviews

In its extensive range of topics, this book will make a good textbook for students in media or communication studies... it is a worthy and earnest contribution to the field Sara-Jane Finlay, University of Toronto Quarterly