April 04, 2007
Information Society Watch
IT for Change has launched a beta version of Information Society Watch, a resource portal providing a Southern perspective on information society (IS) issues. IS Watch attempts to address the imperative of catalysing new perspectives, frameworks and concepts rooted in the development experience of the global South. It is a
response to the need for building a Southern discourse on the information society phenomenon, which so far has mostly been interpreted by Northern actors.
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April 02, 2007
COMS 326 Final Lit Review Notes
COMS 326 - Literature Review – Prof. Shade – Notes – April 3 2007
New, mild extension!: Final paper due April 10 – 14. Email to me at professor.shade@gmail.com and I will confirm receipt. Please name your file as yourlastname_326.doc.
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March 30, 2007
Debate 8: Should ICTs be seen as a viable tool of development for developing countries?
If you search on this blog for 'ICT4' you'll come up with aome resources re ICTs and development and digital divide. Ditto for 'WSIS'. Search on "Vision Impossible' and there will be an article written by Marita Moll and I on WSIS.
There is a vast literature on this. Here are some web resources:
The Drum Beat's
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) National Policies & Case Studies.
The Global Knowledge Partnership
International Development Resource Centre (Ottawa)
How do the poor use their phones
From WSIS, ICT for Development Platform, Geneva 2003
United Nations Development Program ICT for Development
Millennium Development Goals - MDGs
UNDP Human Development Report 2001
International Telecommunications Union ICT Statistics by country and region
See:
Robin Mansell, Ambiguous connections: entitlements and responsibilities of global networking, Journal of International Development, Volume 18, Issue 6: 901-913.
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March 26, 2007
Debate 7: Should file-sharing (of music, films, etc.) be regulated?
File is a powerpoint slide on Intellectual Property - more info than you'd want to know.
Other resources include:
Courtney Love Does the Math, her 2000 defense of Napster.
Calvin Leung. Digi-drama: Internet movie piracy in Canadian Business, February 13-26, 2006.
Michael Geist. U.S. Music Piracy Claims Mostly Fiction, Toronto Star, Feb 05, 2007:04.
Laura Murray's Faircopyright.ca a great collection of resources.
CIPPIC on Copyright Reform
and more below...
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March 09, 2007
Debate 6: Should Canada have a privacy rights charter?
A report below that has many many links on this topic and the general problematic of privacy and ICTs....
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March 07, 2007
Debate 5: What is the media’s responsibility in portraying and reporting on visible minorities and/or First Peoples in Canada?
Some resources...
Maher Arar:
Arar Commission Enquiry, Opening Statement. (2004). Submitted by Maher Arar and His Council to the Commission of Enquiry, 2004.
If link does not work check www.maherarar.ca/cms/images/uploads/Arar_opening_statementfinal.pdf
See also Maher Arar site
http://www.maherarar.ca/
Commission of Enquiries into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. (2006). Arar Commission Reports
--Report of the Events>Relating to Maher Arar: Analysis and Recommedations.
--A New Review Mechanism for the RCMP’s National Security Activities. Retrieved February 2007.
The Missing Women in BC:
Yasmin Jiwani. How We See 'Missing Women', The Tyree, June 21 2006.
The Feminist Media Project, UBC.
The Feminist Media Project was started by a group of concerned academics and journalists focused on a feminist intervention in media depictions of missing and murdered women, and the related trial of Robert Pickton in Vancouver, British Columbia, for 26 charges of first-degree murder in the slayings of women.
Details of the trial against Pickton, which begins in January 2007, are bound to generate the most salacious and disturbing media coverage that reinforces stereotypes about women victims of violence and their perpetrators. Recognition of these issues and subsequent change in media representations can only occur through informed public discourse.
The website, which launched in January 2007, is under the direction of Dr. Mary Lynn Young, a faculty member at the University of British Columbia School of Journalism.
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February 26, 2007
Debate 4: Debate 4: Is it important that women be involved in the media industries as owners and creators?
Women Working in the Media from Media Awareness Network.
Note: These resources, with the exception of the GMMP, are US in orientation.
Carolyn Byerly. A Feminist Analysis of Media Conglomeration presented at Network of Women in Media, India Bandra, India, 13 January, 2004.
Carolyn Byerly. Questioning Media Access: Analysis of Women and Minority FCC Ownership
Data. "The Benton Foundation and the Social Science Research Council released four independent academic studies of the impact of media consolidation in the U.S. The studies focus on how the concentration of media ownership affect media content, from local news reporting to radio music programming and how minority groups have fared – as both media outlet owners and as historically-undeserved audiences -- in an increasingly deregulated media environment. These studies make clear that media consolidation does not correlate with better, more local or more diverse media content. To the contrary, they strongly suggest that media ownership rules should be tightened not relaxed."
Jennifer L. Pozner, Why Fixing the Media System Should Be on the Feminist Agenda, essay adapted for Reclaim the Media and NOW's NW Organizing Project from an essay in BitchFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine and in Alternet.
Women in Media and News, includes a section on Research on Media and Women/Gender, Pozner's articles and essays, and a section on Media Justice: A Women's Issue.
Global Media Monitoring Project, 2005. "On 16th February 2005 the world's news media came under scrutiny when hundreds of people in over 76 countries monitored the representation and portrayal of women and men in news on television, radio and in newspaper. A year on, groups in over 50 countries launched the results of that incredible effort and challenged the media to ensure that fair gender portrayal becomes a professional criterion like any other such as balance, fairness and honesty which all good journalists should aspire to in their work."
Media Report to Women. Industry Statistics.
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Youth/media/violence and Gerbner - Some Resources
Media Awareness Network. Media Violence. Great overview with sections on violence in media entertainment, the business of media violence, debates, governmen and industry responses and policy, and media literacy.
Take a look at their media violence in Canada chronology.
A 2001 Canadian Teacher's Federation study:
Majority of Canadians believes media violence linked to youth violence in the community.
Obit of George Gerbner by Robin Anderson in Fair, 2006.
Su Jhally interview about GG at Media Education Foundation.
George Gerbner. Telling Stories, or How Do We Know What We Know? The Story of Cultural Indicators and the Cultural Environment Movement. Wide Angle - Volume 20, Number 2, April 1998, pp. 116-131.
Cultivation Analysis. Overview at Museum of Broadcast Communications.
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Youth and Consumerism Bibliography
This is a bibliography that was produced by PhD student Shanly Dixon for a reading course we did on youth and consumption.
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