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.
The lit review is worth 40% of your grade. Your final paper mark will be based both on the content of the paper (critique, supportive argument, etc.) as well as your writing style (grammar, spelling, structure). The weight toward each element of the paper will be 60% content and 40% style.
Please provide complete citations for all of the sources you are consulting for the lit review. This includes: full author name, title of book or article, name of journal with volume and issue number --if available; date published, page numbers for journal articles.
Please use quotations judiciously! You may quote, but do so in moderation and provide page number for quote. Consider paraphrasing and providing page numbers in lieu of excessive quotations.
A literature review reviews secondary source material on a particular subject, issue, or theory. It provides a critical assessment of the literature, and provides a useful summary of scholarly work, in terms of the research questions asked, theoretical point of view, and methodological considerations.
Students are asked to write one literature review of 3,000 words (exclusive of the bibliographic citations). You will be taking one or several of the weekly themes and surveying some relevant scholarly articles, books, and other sources that are applicable to your research topic. Use the readings for the weekly theme you choose, plus identify no less than 5 and no more than 8 other articles, books, or other sources located in the Concordia University library.
Information to consult on writing lit reviews can be found here:
University of California Santa Cruz, How to Write a Literature Review, http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/literaturereview.html
Another useful guide is: University of Wisconsin Writing Center, Writer's Handbook: Academic Writing: Reviews of Literature, 2001, http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/ReviewofLiterature.html
The Concordia University Library has some excellent resource guides at http://www.library.concordia.ca/help/howto/#.
Citation guidelines can be found at http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/citations.html
Plagiarism will be taken seriously. Look at the Undergraduate Calendar Code of Conduct at http://registrar.concordia.ca/calendar
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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...
Lessig's Free Culture
Free Culture-international student movement
The Free Expression Policy Project. Copyright Isues>
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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....
PRIVACY AS A COMMUNICATION RIGHT in CANADA
Leslie Regan Shade and Jen Parisi
Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada
Draft 2.1, March 9, 2007
Outline
1. What are the Dimensions of Privacy as a Communication Right?
Why Consider Privacy as a Human Right?
Canadian Legislation
Toward a Privacy Rights Charter–Senator Finestone’s Private Bill (2000)
New Privacy Threats
Platforms for Privacy as a Communication Right
2. Theoretical Notions of Privacy
Legal Constructs of Privacy
3. Privacy and ICTs–New Challenges and Trends
Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs)
Biometric Identification
Identity Theft
Children’s Privacy–Datamining in Commercial Websites
4. Federal Privacy Legislation and Governance in Canada
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada
The Privacy Act
PIPEDA
Access to Information Act
5. Privacy Rights Post 9/11
Surveillance Threats
Anti-Terrorism Act
Lawful Access
The Arar Report
6. Trade and Privacy
Deep Integration
Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia (OIPCBC) ‘Privacy and the USA Patriot Act’
7. References
Appendices:
The Privacy Act; PIPEDA; Privacy Rights Charter (Finestone)
People’ Communication Charter; APC Internet Rights Charter
Privacy Rights Organizations
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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.
Youth and Consumerism Bibliography
Acuff, D. S. (1997). What kids buy and why: The psychology of marketing to kids. New York: Free Press.
Austin, M. J., & Reed, M. L. (1999). Targeting children online: Internet advertising ethics issues. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 16, 590-602.
Buckingham, D. (2000). After the death of childhood: Growing up in the age of electronic media. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press.
Center for Media Education. (1996) Web of deception: Threats to children from online marketing. Washington, D.C.: Center for Media Education.
Chung, Grace and Sara Grimes. (2005). Data mining the kids: Surveillance and market research strategies in children’s online games. Canadian Journal of Communication 30.4.
Cook, D. (2005) The dichotomous child in and of commercial culture. Childhood, 12(2), 155-159 .
Cross, G. (2004). The cute and the cool: The wondrous innocence and modern American children’s culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dale, Stephen. (2005). Candy from strangers: Kids and consumer culture. Vancouver: New Star Books.
Giroux, Henry A. (2003). The abandoned generation: Democracy beyond the culture of fear. NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Giroux, Henry A. (1999?) Animating Youth: The Disnification of Children’s Culture. Online at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/Giroux/Giroux2.html
Grimes, Sara and Leslie Regan Shade. (2005). Neopian economics of play: Children’s cyberpets and online communities as immersive advertising in Neopets.com. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 1(2): 181-198.
Gruber, S., & Berry, J. (1993). Marketing to and through kids. New York: McGraw-Hill books.
Harris, Anita. (2004). Jamming girl culture: Young women and consumer citizenship, pp. 163-172 in All about the girl: Culture, power, and identity, ed. Anita Harris. NY: Routledge.
Jacobson, L. (2004). Raising consumers: Children and the American mass market in the early twentieth century. New York: Columbia University Press.
Jenkins, Henry, ed. (1998). The Children’s Culture Reader. NY: NYU Press.
John, D. R. (1999). Consumer socialization of children: A retrospective look at twenty-five years of research. Journal of Consumer Research, 26, 183-213.
Kapur, J. (2005). Coining for capital: Movies, marketing and the transformation of Childhood. Rutgers University Press.
Kenway, J. & Bullen, E. (2001). Consuming children: Education-entertainment-advertising. Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Klaffke, P. (2003). Spree: A cultural history of shopping. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.
Klein, N. (2000). No Logo. New York: Picador Press.
Kline, S. (1993). Out of the Garden: Toys, T.V. and children’s culture in the age of marketing. London: Verso.
LaFerle, C., Edwards, S. M., & Leu, W-N. (2000). Teens’ use of traditional media and the Internet. Journal of Advertising Research, 4 (3), 55-65.
Langer, B. (2005). Consuming anomie: Children and global commercial culture. Childhood, 12(2), 259-271.
Linn, S. (2004). Consuming kids: The hostile takeover of childhood. New York: New York Press.
Macklin, C. (1996). Preschoolers’ learning of brand names from visual cues. Journal of Consumer Research, 23, 251-262.
McNeal, J. U. (1999). The kids market: Myths and realities. Ithaca NY: Paramount Market Publishing.
Quart, A. (2003). Branded: The buying and selling of teenagers. New York: Perseus Publishing.
Ravitch, D. & Viteritti, J.P. (Ed.) (2003). Kid stuff: Marketing sex and violence to America’s children. Baltimore: The John Hopskins University Press.
Russell, R. (2005). Branding, bricolage: Gender, consumption and transition. Childhood, 12(2), 221-237.
Saunders, Eileen. (2006). Good kids/bad kids: What’s a culture to do?, pp. 77-94 in Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian communication, 2nd. Ed., edited Paul Attallah and Leslie Regan Shade. Toronto: Thomson Nelson.
Schor, J. B. (2005). Born to Buy. New York: Scribner.
Seiter, Ellen (1993). Sold separately : Children and parents in consumer culture. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Seiter, Ellen (2004). The Internet Playground: Children’s Access, Entertainment and Mis-Education. NY: Peter Lang.
Shade, Leslie Regan, Nikki Porter and Wendy Sanchez. (2005). ‘You can see anything on the internet, you can do anything on the internet’: Young Canadians talk about the internet. Canadian Journal of Communication 30(4).
Siegel, D. L., Coffey, T. J., & Livingston, G. (2001). The great tween buying machine: Marketing to today’s tweens Ithaca, NY: Paramount Market Publishing.
Steinberg, S.R. & Kincheloe, J.L. (Ed.) (1997) Kinder-Culture: The corporate construction of childhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
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February 22, 2007
Fox Attacks
From Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films:
FoxAttacks "is a campaign that offers you real tools to DO SOMETHING other than throw things at the TV. Join us in forcing Fox to stop serving as a mouthpiece for the right wing's agenda. We at Brave New Films have been as shocked and outraged as you have at their consistent misuse and abuse of the term "news." Fox is not a legitimate news channel. They are a dangerous element in our democracy: dangerous in the way they influence other media, dangerous in the way they force stories into the mainstream without any evidence, dangerous in the effect they have on their viewers. But, just being furious is not enough."
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February 13, 2007
Our Silly Media
This is from Think Progress.org
The death of Anna Nicole Smith yesterday was a feeding frenzy for the national media, and coverage of the war was drowned out: NBC’s Nightly News devoted 14 seconds to Iraq compared to 3 minutes and 13 seconds to Anna Nicole. CNN referenced Anna Nicole 522% more frequently than it did Iraq. MSNBC was even worse — 708% more references to Anna Nicole than Iraq.
...and from DigitalJournal, Cashing in on Anna Nicole's Death
and Lynn Crosby in The Globe and Mail
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PBS Series on News
PBS Frontline series on 'News War'
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February 11, 2007
On Susan Sontag
Excerpt from On Photography
1975 Interview in Boston Review
Tne New Republic review of Met's exhibit On Photography: A Tribute to SS
Angela McRobbie. While Susan Sontag Lay Dying. in Open Democracy.net, 11-10-06.
Robert Hirsch, review of Regarding the Pain of Others in Photo Vision Magazine
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February 05, 2007
Debate 3 - Media Reg for Kids?
Debate 3: Should there be media regulation for content that could be harmful or offensive to children? (examples can include broadcasting media or the internet).
Probably the best way (and the most *fun*) to tackle this debate is by focusing in on a piece of recent legislation that aims to protect children and youth on the internet. The most recent attempt has been in the US through their Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) whose aims are to require that all public libraries and schools that receive federal funding block access to all social networking sites, chat sites and potentially (according to one interpretation of the Act) all blogs.
While DOPA is still in a state of turmoil now – it has since been (re)incarnated into the Bill S.49, Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act
Debates over protecting kids from salacious, illegal, offensive, or criminal content (and protecting kids from child pornographers) have been a constant since the internet reached popularity in the mid 1990s. Donna Hoffman and Tom Novak in their blog post from 1995 (available from their Sloan site, scroll down to the 31 Jul 1995 post) recount the controvery over the Marty Rimm scandal and mid 1990s debates over internet porn and legislation in the US - the Communications Decent Act of 1996 that was shot down --useful historical look. The Time Magazine cover above reflected media concerns and hysteria at the time.
Some other resources can be found below….
Anastasia Goodstein on Bill S.49
American Library Association. (2006). DOPA Information.
dana boyd. (February 19, 2006). Identity production in a networked culture: Why youth heart MySpace. Paper given at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Henry Jenkins.(August 2006). Four Ways to Kill MySpace. [blog]
Amanda Lehart.(March 17, 2005). Protecting teens online. Chicago: The Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Larry D. Rosen. (June 2006). Adolescents in MySpace: Identity formation, friendship, and sexual predators.
Larry D. Rosen. (June 2006). Sexual predators on MySpace: A deeper look at teens being stalked or approached for sexual liaisons. Short report 2006-01.
Ellen Wartella and N. Jennings. (Fall/Winter 2000). Children and computers: New technology – old concerns. The Future of Children: Children and Computer Technology 10(2), 31-43. At Future of Children.
Kurt Eichenwald, K. (December 19, 2005). Through his webcam, a boy joins a sordid online world. The New York Times.
Here’s an excerpt from a chapter I wrote:
CONTESTED SPACES: PROTECTING OR INHIBITING GIRLS ONLINE?
Leslie Regan Shade, Concordia University
Forthcoming in Growing Up Online,
Ed. Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon (Palgrave, 2007)
Introduction: The DOPA Debates
While these sites were designed to allow their users to share virtual profiles of themselves to friends and like-minded users, the sites at most have become a haven for online sexual predators who have made these corners of the Web their own virtual hunting ground.Republican Representative Michael Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania, on U.S. House of Representatives debate on DOPA, July 26, 2006.
On July 26, 2006 the U.S. House of Representatives passed The Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) of 2006 by a vote of 410 to 15. DOPA requires that all public libraries and schools that receive federal funding block access to all social networking sites, chat sites and potentially (according to one interpretation of the Act) all blogs.
Proponents of the Act contend that it is designed to protect children and minors from access to online sexual predators and sexual exploitation, which the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) estimates has increased significantly; one in five youth received a sexual solicitation over the internet in the last year alone, with teen girls the primary target, receiving two-thirds of the solicitations.
Opponents of DOPA argued that threats are more pernicious for children accessing sites in their own homes without adequate parental supervision. Said Democratic Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan, “This legislation will actually drive children to go to unsupervised places, unsupervised sites to go online, where they will become more vulnerable to child predators.” Democratic Representative Diane Watson of California argued, “it sends the wrong message to our children, our parents, teachers and librarians. The bill would curb Internet usage as a means to protect children, a counterproductive method to achieving such an important goal. Rather than restricting Internet usage, parents, teachers and librarians need to teach children how to use our ever-changing technology. The information age in which we live offers so much potential to our children, if they know how to use it.” The furor around this latest piece of U.S. legislation purporting to ‘protect’ children online highlights the heated public debates that arise around internet and youth. Opinions abound; not all of them based on research, facts, or rational thought! This chapter examines the way in which the emergence of new media has typically elicited disagreement, polarized responses and panic regarding children and the protection of childhood, particularly in so far as girls are concerned.
Young people are avid users of social networking spaces such as MySpace, finding them to be a robust, innovative, and attractive method of communicating online to their friends and peers. Social networking spaces are web spaces where individuals can create their own online presence for uploading photos and profiles of themselves; within the larger web community users are encouraged to be interactive via posting lists of fellow users on their friends section, writing within the comments section, and letting other users link to their own spaces (Williams, 2006). The most popular spaces for youth include MySpace.com, Xanga.com, LiveJournal.com, and FaceBook.com. Fueled by the affordability and ubiquity of digital cameras and cell-phone cameras, these web spaces have also become lucrative. In July 2005 Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation purchased MySpace.com for $649M USD, which in February 2006 boasted, according to some estimates, 89 million users since its inception in late 2003. 150,000 new accounts are created every day, and its user population is equivalent to the 12th largest country in the world (Rosen 2006). MySpace now outranks Google for page views – ten percent of all advertising impressions across the Internet occur on MySpace, which is double that of Google (MySpace: Design Anarchy That Works, 2006). These figures have attracted diverse groups eager to tap into MySpace’s youth demographic, including retailers, entertainment companies, cell phone companies, and youth-oriented brands. Larry Rosen’s (2006) study of Los Angeles area MySpace users revealed that “the typical MySpacer has about 200 ‘friends’ with approximately 75 labeled as ‘close friends,’ many of whom they have never met” (p.2). MySpace clients use IM, e-mail, and post and read bulletins an average of 2 hours a day, 5 days a week. Combating pervasive negative media coverage of MySpace, Rosen asserts that MySpace offers positive benefits for teens: “more support from friends, more honest communication and less shyness both on and off MySpace”, providing “a forum for teenagers to develop a sense of their personal identity” (ibid, p.5-6).
Critics of DOPA argue that the legislation will create an even more pervasive digital-divide amongst children and youth who have broadband access in their homes and those that can only access the internet through their schools, public libraries, or community centers. If DOPA succeeds in banning children from established networking sites, it is unlikely that this will prevent children from doing what they need and want to do--communicate and interact with their peers in a society (at least in North America) that is increasing reticent about the public mobility of children, especially girls, without adult supervision. As well as censoring constitutionally protected speech, DOPA will also exacerbate the ‘participation gap’ amongst youth using and creating internet content, particularly for civic participation (American Library Association, 2006; Center for Democracy and Technology, 2006; Jenkins, 2006).
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January 27, 2007
Debate 2: War Photos in Media - Resources
Debate 2: Is it in the public interest for the media to publish photos or other visual media depicting war atrocities?
Susan D. Moeller. Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death. NY: Routledge, 1999. On Google Books
Susan Sontag. Redgarding the Pain of Others. NY: Picador, 2004. on Google Books and there is an excerpt here from The New Yorker, 2002, Looking at War.
Michael Griffin. Picturing America’s ‘War on Terrorism’ in Afghanistan and Iraq. Journalism, Vol. 5, No. 4, 381-402 (2004). Abstract and journal in CLUES.
Barbie Zelizer. Death in Wartime: Photographs and the "Other War" in Afghanistan. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 10, No. 3, 26-55 (2005). abstract and journal in CLUES.
W. Lance Bennett, Regina G Lawrence, Steven Livingston (2006) None Dare Call It Torture: Indexing and the Limits of Press Independence in the Abu Ghraib Scandal. Journal of Communication 56 (3), 467–485. abstract and journal in CLUES.
Allen Feldman. Abu Ghraib: Ceremonies of Nostalgia. Open Democracy, 2004.
Keith Tester. Reflections on the Abu Ghraib Photographs. Journal of Human Rights Volume 4, Number 1 / January-March 2005: 137 – 143.
Seymour M. Hersh. THE GRAY ZONE: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. The New Yorker. May 24, 2005.
Joan Walsh. The Abu Ghraib files Salon Magazine.
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CRTC Decision on Al Jazeera-Debate Resources
Hugh Miles. Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story Of The Arab News Channel That Is Challenging The West. Grove Press, 2005. on google books
Daniel Pipes and Charlotte West. (August 13, 2004).
Al-Jazeera in Al-Canada? FrontPageMagazine.com.
DeNeen L. Brown. (Monday, July 26, 2004). In Canada, Exceptions Are Rule for Al-Jazeera: Distributors Must Monitor, May Alter Programs. Washington Post Foreign Service: Page A13.
CAIR – Council on American-Islamic Relations Canada. (August 11, 2003). Submission to the CRTC on Al-Jazeera.
Aliaa I. Dakroury. (Fall 2005). Whose Right to Communicate: Al-Jazeera or CRTC? Global Media Journal.
Mark Bourrie. (July 20 2004). Yes Means no for al-Jazeera in Canada. Inter-Press News Agency.
Steve Gold. (March 2005). Our worst enemy? A second look at Al-Jazeera finds the network less baiting. Ryerson Review of Journalism.
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Pinhead Politics?
PINHEAD POLITICS? FOX NEWS VERSUS THE CANADIAN REGULATORS
Leslie Regan Shade
May 31, 2004 – International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics Inaugural Issue 1(1)
Typically, The New York Times isn’t strong on presenting Canadian news to its readers – unlike the Canadian counterpart, The Globe and Mail, which features a daily diet of American news – politics and entertainment. In the last year The Times Canadian-focused articles included topics such as anti-smoking legislation in Nunavut, potential terrorist ties to Canada, acrimonious debates over border safety, the travails of aging boomers and seniors crossing the border to avail themselves of cheaper Canadian pharmaceuticals, legalized gay marriages, the decriminalization of marijuana, hockey, and sordid politics: a patronage scandal in the Liberal party, softwood lumber disputes under NAFTA, and the synergy between Prime Minister Martin and rock star Bono.
Certainly the palpable ideological differences between President George W. Bush and former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and now Paul Martin over the big social issues of the day – gay rights, the softening of marijuana laws, and Canada’s non-support for Bush’s war in Iraq received grudging commentary. But it wasn’t until April of this year that The Times revealed to its Sunday readers a spat between The Globe’s television reviewer, John Doyle, and Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly over the Canadian Cable Television Association’s (CCTA) application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for authorization to offer the Fox News Channel to Canadian cable customers. The fiery barbs, as showcased in Doyle’s column in The Globe and on O’Reilly’s show ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ illustrated a “cultural divide” (Kraus 2004: WK-7).
Doyle, April 19th: “Beauty. Bring it on, I say. We’re all in need of a good laugh. The barking-mad Fox News Channel is something that most Canadians have only heard about. It’s time we saw it for ourselves and made up our own minds about the phenomenon. We’ll find out if this Bill O’Reilly fella is as stupendously pompous and preening as he appears to be in the rare clips we see of Fox News.”
Doyle, describing Fox News as “kind of live theatre of the airwaves, with right-wing pundits playing journalists in an ongoing soap opera,” was featured in O’Reilly’s ‘The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day’ segment, which dismissed The Globe as “a leftist outfit”: “Hey you pinheads up there, I may be pompous, but at least I’m honest.” (Doyle, April 21).
Doyle was besieged with e-mails and letters from O’Reilly fans: “I lost count of the number of times I was called ‘an a*hole’. It was at least 43 times, anyway…I was also called a Canadian numerous times, as if that were an automatic and withering insult” (Doyle, April 21). O’Reilly shot back that a viewer’s claim that “in Canada the CBC is known as ‘the Communist Broadcasting Corporation’” (Doyle, April 23).
Hilarious lambasting aside, the issues that Doyle vs. O’Reilly raises are central to the politics and policies of Canadian media today: the question over foreign ownership of the media, the illegal satellite market, and the regulatory practices of the CRTC.
Consumer’s Choice?
CCTA’s application to the CRTC for authorization to offer the Fox News Channel was made in mid-April after a previous application to carry Fox and other bundled U.S. cable services, including HBO and ESPN, was rejected by the CRTC less than a year before. The CRTC’s rationale was that Canadian channels already show much of the programming anyway, and allowing new cable entrants would only create competition with existing domestic services (Adams 2004: R3).
Citing “clear demands from our customers for this service,” CCTA President Michael Hennessy, in his April filing to the CRTC, argued that “the addition of popular services like Fox News Channel provides Canadian digital cable customers with access to more choice when selecting their information source” (CCTA 2004). This increased consumer choice, they further argued, maximizes competitive benefits for the Canadian broadcasting system. Not explicitly mentioned is the desire to lure Canadians into purchasing new digital television hardware and services, a potentially lucrative market.
The issue is not whether Fox News – owned by News Corporation’s Rupert Murdoch- should be allowed to buy Canadian cable stations, but whether the service should be allowed to be carried by a Canadian service. Canadians who wish to watch Fox News can do so via several illegal satellite services. Nonetheless, creating a niche for a foreign (and some would argue, American) player opens up the debate about foreign ownership, which is currently capped at 46.8%. One of the recommendations in a 2003 Parliamentary Committee report for Canadian Heritage on the status and future of the Canadian broadcasting industry, was to restrain foreign ownership in broadcasting and telecommunication services. “Members of all parties but the Canadian Alliance agreed than any loosening of Canadian ownership rules for media would be a perilous step,” the authors of the report wrote, and, “once foreign companies are allowed to take control, the chances of Canadians ever reclaiming this vital cultural space will be small indeed” (Raboy and Taras 2004: 64).
Muddying the Airwaves: The Grey Market
Also at issue for the CCTA, a member of the Coalition Against Satellite Signal Theft, is their urge to curb the increase in illegal satellite dishes, estimated to be between 520,000 to 700,00, with an estimated loss of $400M Cdn to the satellite and cable industry, artists, and actors.
The market of Canadians paying the full subscription cost to receive U.S. satellite TV is known as the grey market. For many Canadians, the attraction of grey-market services are the sheer number of channels and packages not available on Canadian services, including sports and ethnic and foreign programming – and here, Fox News.
Bell ExpressVu, the largest Canadian satellite provider, pursued the Canadian vendors of U.S. satellite equipment to the Supreme Court which, in 2002, found in its favor. The Court ruled that since Canadian companies had purchased the rights to distribute U.S. programming in Canada, it was illegal for Canadians to purchase the same programming from American suppliers. In order for Canadians to legally subscribe to satellite services, the Supreme Court ruled that they must instead subscribe to one of two lawful distributors: the Canadian Bell ExpressVu or Star Choice Communications Inc.
CRTC Bashing
I find it astounding that we put up with this. Iraq has a freer market for news than we do in Canada. I can't figure out why we can't make this an issue. The CRTC should be disbanded.
--Posted by: Kevin at November 8, 2003 02:31 PM
The CRTC, an independent agency responsible for regulating broadcasting and telecommunications by reporting to Parliament through Canadian Heritage, has as their motto “Communications in the Public Interest.” Throughout the 1990s, as media and telecom deregulation became the mantra and norm for western countries, buffeted by the heady winds of neoliberalism, CRTC decisions were attacked or applauded by various stakeholders. Depending on your political affiliation or point of view, CRTC decisions either increased cross-media ownership or stifled competition, created new venues for foreign owners or lessened Canadian content and sovereignty, increased consumer choice or muted the public interest.
Canadians typically aligned with more conservative or libertarian views would love to see the CRTC abolished, or at least greatly diminished in its powers. A typical complaint about the CRTC is that its regulatory powers are equated with censorship, as was expressed in a Globe op-ed concerning the Fox Affair; the CRTC is “deathly afraid of conservative cultural competition, and they are using the state, through the CRTC, to deny Canadians the right to choose” (Love, 2004, A17).
Picking on Fox?
Fallows (2003) argues that the Murdoch version of the press – that it is basically a business like any other – has, particularly under Michael Copps’ FCC, been touted as the model for media ownership and autonomy. This ‘market rules’ model contrasts with the conception that the press should serve the public trust and uphold the public interest.
Murdoch’s News Corporation and Murdoch himself are not without controversy. As one of the largest media companies in the world, with 2003 revenues at $17.4B (USD), News Corporation’s holdings include the Fox Broadcasting Company (34 U.S. television stations); satellite properties (DirecTV, BskyB, which carries specialty cable stations, including Fox News Channel, Fox Movie Channel, National Geographic Channel, and miscellaneous sports channels); film properties (20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Television Studios); newspapers (The New York Post, in the UK five, including The Sunday Times, The Times, and The Sun, as well as 20 in Australia); magazines (including The Weekly Standard, TV Guide); books (HarperCollins Publishers which includes 23 distinct imprints, the HarperCollins Children’s Book Group); and other non-media properties (including sports teams – LA Dodgers, La King, LA Lakers, Fox Interactive, the Staples Center).
Murdoch is himself known as a savvy businessman who supports conservative political causes and whose global reach “will ultimately harm the interests of those seeking greater political and social justice, let alone quality news and entertainment programming” (Chester, 2003). FAIR – (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) calls Fox News “The Most Biased Name in News…an extraordinary right-wing tilt” (see http://www.fair.org/reports/fox.html). And Hart (2003: 12) describes the O’Reilly ‘brand’ as “an all-spin zone, where the host absurdly denies the show’s conservative political slant and “facts” are manipulated in order to win arguments against O’Reilly’s opponents.”
Whether or not the CRTC will allow the CCTA to bring Fox News to Canadian cable subscribers is not yet known. Those that applaud bringing Fox News into Canada who also claim that CRTC reticence is because of Liberal party wishes to protect Canadians from ‘conservative debate’ could heed the words of one editorial letter writer to The Globe: “if the current state of U.S. political discourse is the result of watching Fox News, then bravo to the CRTC” (Martin 2004: A18).
References
Adams, J. (2004), TV Group Wants Fox in its Stable. The Globe and Mail, April 16, 2004, R3.
Canadian Cable Television Association. (2004), Cable Industry Applies to Carry Fox News Channel [press release], April 15, 2004. Available online at URL: http://ww.ccta.ca
Chester, J. (2003), Murdoch’s Extended Reach, The Nation, July 10, 2003. URL: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20030721&s=chester
Doyle, J. (2004), Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Fox? Certainly Not Us, The Globe and Mail, April 19, 2004, R2.
Doyle, J. (2004), Fox News. Not Here Yet, But Already Hilarious, The Globe and Mail, April 21, 2004, R2.
Doyle, J. (2004), Curling, Canadian Tire, and Other Commie Plots, The Globe and Mail, April 23, 2004, R2.
Fallows, J. (2003), The Age of Murdoch, The Atlantic Monthly, September 2003), 82-98.
Hart, P. (2003), The Oh Really Factor? Unspinning Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly, NY, Seven Stories Press.
Kraus, C. (2004), When a Canadian Insults Fox News, Them’s [Expletive] Fighting Words! The New York Times, April 25, 2004, WK-7.
Love, R. (2004), Canadian’s Shouldn’t Be Denied Fox News, The Globe and Mail, April 28, 2004, A17.
Martin, D.J. (2004), Fox Hunting [letter to the editor], The Globe and Mail, April 29, 2004, A18.
Raboy, M. and D. Taras. (2004), The Politics of Neglect of Canadian Broadcasting Policy. Policy Options, March 2004, 63-68.
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Debate: CRTC Decision on Fox News - Resources
CBC Archives. Ruling the Airwaves. The CRTC and Canadian Content.
CBC (November 18, 2004). CRTC Approves Fox News.
CCTA. (November 18, 2004). Fox News: Cable Industry Pleased with CRTC Decision.
Parliamentary debate on Hansard, November 25 2004.
Focus on the Family support, 2004.
David Akin’s blog, November 18, 2004.
Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB). (August 16 2005). CRTC should not reward Fox.
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). (July 2, 2001). The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's Extraordinary Right-Wing Tilt.
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January 20, 2007
CBC Radio Series on SPIN
A new CBC radio series on Spin can be found here : A Series about Spin, the Spinners and the Spun by Ira Basen for CBC Radio The Sunday Edition...
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Notes on Cultural Studies
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Notes on Admin v Critical Research
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Notes on Political Economy
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January 09, 2007
COMS 326-Winter 2007
Course outline attached, and also pasted in below:
COMS 326
Media Institutions and Policies
Winter 2007
Tuesdays 1:15 - 4:00
CJ 5.301
Professor Leslie Regan Shade
Concordia University
Department of Communication Studies
Office: CJ 4.407
lshade@alcor.concordia.ca
Tel: 514-848-2424 x2550
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 12-1; 4-5, or by appointment
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Calendar description: “This course introduces students to the analysis of the institutional, political, and economic forces that have shaped the development of media during the twentieth century. Attention is given to the ownership structures, corporate practices, and state policy interventions affecting media institutions in both the public and private sectors. A particular focus is given to the interrelations between Cultural, Multicultural, and Communication Policy interventions.”
Specific objectives of this course will be to:
Introduce students to critical (e.g., political economic and policy) perspectives within communication studies, both historical and theoretical
Encourage students to ask basic questions about the multi-faceted nature of media institutions and policies, including a range of communication technologies and specific policy initiatives and issues
Allow students to develop a critical perspective and apply this through the development of research and critical writing skills
Readings
Paul Attallah and Leslie Regan Shade. (2006) Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Thomson Nelson).
--available for purchase at the Loyola Bookstore.
Other readings will be available via CLUES, the Learning Centre (LC) or online at the course blog, http://808.pariso.com
ASSIGNMENTS & GRADING
Course participation: (10%)
Students are expected to come to class on a weekly basis and be prepared to participate in interactive discussions and debates on the weekly topic and course materials. Attendance is required. Please notify me in advance if you must miss a class, and if you are ill.
Cultural Sovereignty Essay: (15%). Due January 30th
Explain why cultural sovereignty does or does not matter in the Canadian context, referring specifically to the chapters in Mediascapes that we will discuss January 30: Shade, Bélanger, Beaty, Attallah/Foster. (750 word essay).
Class Policy Debate Presentation: (15%)
There are 8 debates on various media policy issues that are identified throughout the course. Each student will be responsible for taking one of the sides in one identified policy debate.
Debate Rules:
Each presenter will make an opening statement of their position, arguments, and solution. (5 minutes)
Each presenter will then ask their opponent 2 questions (5 minutes each for response).
Each presenter will make a closing statement (3-5 minutes)
The debate will then be opened up to the rest of the class.
Students should be prepared in advance and may consult a written text.
Policy Analysis: (20%) Due on or before March 27th
Students will take one of the identified media policy issues and provide a brief analysis of the issue. You may choose to do this on the policy issue you are debating. In this paper you will:
--provide an overview of the issue/case: description, context
--provide a brief examination of the stakeholders and their position(s)
--provide an argument as to the importance of the issue/case to media policy
Length is 500-750 words only.
Literature Review: (40%). Bibliography due March 6. Final paper due April 10.
A literature review reviews secondary source material on a particular subject, issue, or theory. It provides a critical assessment of the literature, and provides a useful summary of scholarly work, in terms of the research questions asked, theoretical point of view, and methodological considerations.
Students are asked to write one literature reviews of 3000 words. You will be taking one or several of the weekly themes and surveying some relevant scholarly articles, books, and other sources that are applicable to your research topic. Use the readings for the weekly theme you choose, plus identify no less than 5 and no more than 8 other articles, books, or other sources located in the Concordia University library.
Please consult the UCSC Guide on writing literature reviews:
University of California Santa Cruz, How to Write a Literature Review.
Another useful guide is: > University of Wisconsin Writing Center, Writer's Handbook: Academic Writing: Reviews of Literature, 2001.
The Concordia University Library has some excellent resource guides.
Citation guidelines can be found here.
Plagiarism will be taken seriously. Look at the Undergraduate Calendar Code of Conduct.
COMS 326 – WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Week 1: January 9
Introduction
--what are theoretical entry points that we can use to explore media institutions and policy?
--what is required of me in this course? What are topics you’d like to explore?
Week 2: January 16
Looking at communication studies and media policy from a critical lens
Readings
Mediascapes: Introduction, Hamilton (Considering Critical Communication Studies in Canada), Kinahan (From British Invasions to American Influences: Cultural Studies in Canada)
Week 3: January 23
Considering audiences
Readings
Mediascapes: Attallah (The Audience), Elliott (Sipping Starbucks: (Re)Considering Communicative Media)
Mark Phillips. The Global Disney Audiences Project: Disney Across Cultures, p. 31-61 in Dazzled by Disney? The Global Disney Audiences Project, ed. Janet Wasko, Mark Phillips, Eileen R. Meehan. London: Leicester University Press, 2001. (LC)
Due in class next week! Explain why cultural sovereignty does or does not matter in the Canadian context, referring specifically to the chapters in Mediascapes that we will discuss January 30: Shade, Bélanger, Beaty, Attallah/Foster. 750 word essay.
Week 4: January 30
The Canadian mediascape & notions of cultural sovereignty and identity
Readings
Mediascapes: Shade (O Canada: Media (De)convergence, Concentration and Culture) , Bélanger (Radio in Canada), Beaty (The Film Industry in Canada) , Attallah/Foster (Television in Canada)
Take-home essay due in class for discussion.
Week 5: February 6
Recent Canadian broadcasting policy controversies
Readings
Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan. (2006). Chapter One, Regulation, pp. 27-65 in Canadian Television Today. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. (LC)
CRTC. (July 15, 2004). Broadcasting Public Notice 2004-15. Requests to add Al Jazeera to the lists of eligible services for distribution on a digital basis.
CRTC (November 18, 2004). Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2004-88. Revised lists of eligible satellite services. (approval of Fox News)
Debate 1: Do you support or disagree with the CRTC decision on Fox News and/or on Al Jazeera?
Week 6: February 13
Politics and ethics in the mediascape
Readings
Mediascapes: Rose/Kiss (Boundaries Blurred: The Mass Media and Politics in a Hyper-Media Age)
Dannagal G. Young and Russell M. Tisinger. (2006).Dispelling Late-Night Myths: News Consumption among Late-Night Comedy Viewers and the Predictors of Exposure to Various Late-Night Shows. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 11: 113-134. (CLUES)
Susan Sontag. (May 23, 2004). Regarding the Torture of Others. The New York Times Magazine.
Debate 2: Is it in the public interest for the media to publish photos or other visual media depicting war atrocities?
--FEBRUARY 20 WINTER BREAK—
Week 7: February 27
Children’s media culture & policy
Readings
Mediascapes: Saunders (Good Kids/Bad Kids), Greenberg/Wilson (Youth Violence, Moral Panic, and the Canadian Media)s
Sonia Livingstone and Andrea Millwood Hargrave. (2006). Harmful to Children? Drawing Conclusions from Empirical Research on Media Effects, pp. 21-48 in Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment: Young People and Harmful Media Content in the Digital Age, ed. Ulla Carlsson. Götenborg, Sweden: Nordicom/The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media. (LC)
Debate 3: Should there be media regulation for content that could be harmful or offensive to children? (examples can include broadcasting media or the internet)
Week 8: March 6
Gender in the mediascape
Readings
Mediascapes: Sullivan (Women and the Media)
Carolyn M. Byerly. (2004). A Feminist Analysis of Media Concentration, Presented at Network of Women in Media, Bandra, India, 13 February.
Debate 4: Is it important that women be involved in the media industries as owners and creators?
Week 9: March 13
Race in the mediascape
Readings
Mediascapes: Jiwani (Race(ing) the Nation: Media and Minorities), Roth (First People’s Television in Canada’s North)
Andrew Mitrovica. (December/January 2007). Hear No Evil, Write No Lies (The Maher Arar Case in the Canadian media). The Walrus: 37-42. (LC)
Debate 5: What is the media’s responsibility in portraying and reporting on visible minorities and/or First Peoples in Canada?
Week 10: March 20
New media and privacy
Readings
Mediascapes: Scatamburlo-D’Annibale/Boin (New Media), Steeves (Privacy and New Media.
Stephen Coleman. (2006). E-mail, Terrorism and the Right to Privacy. Ethics and Information Technology 8:17-27. (CLUES)
Debate 6: Should Canada have a privacy rights charter?
Week 11: March 27
Intellectual property debates
Readings
Mediascapes: Laba (‘Pirates’, Peers, and Popular Music), Downes (Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Global Economy.
Laura J. Murray. (2005). Copyright Talk: Patterns and Pitfalls in Canadian Policy Discourses, in In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, ed. Michael Geist.
See also CIPPIC’s website.
Debate 7: Should file-sharing (of music, films, etc.) be regulated?
Week 12: April 3
Globalization and the ‘Information Society’
Readings
Mediascapes: Karim (Globalization, Transnational Communication, and Diaspora)
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Tunis Commitment and Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, November 2005.
Charles Kenny (2006), Chapter 1, “Will the Internet Save the World?” in Overselling the Web? Development and the Internet, Lynn Rienner Pubs.
Debate 8: Should ICTs be seen as a viable tool of development for developing countries?
Week 13: April 10
Alternative media
Readings
Mediascapes: Skinner (Alternative Media)
Andrea Langlois. (2005). How open is open? The politics of open publishing in Autonomous Media: Activating Resistance and Dissent, ed. Andrea Langlois and Frédéric Dubois. Montreal: Cumulus Press. (LC)
Literature Review due. Submit in class or email to me at professor.shade@gmail.com
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April 03, 2006
Is Blogging the Third Wave for Feminists?
The third wave - at a computer near you, by Kira Cochran in The Guardian, March 31, 2006.
"Feminist blogs are booming. But are they globalising emancipation - or just playthings for the rich and well educated?"
and....
"Nina Wakeford, a sociologist at the University of Surrey, is cautious about blogging's influence. "I think the way blogs can provoke debate is useful," she concedes, "but it isn't clear how much they feed into activism. In the past, there was a clear role for women's organisations as regards representations to government, but I'm not sure whether women can affect public policy through blogging. Just who are they representing?"
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Center for Social Media
New resources from the Center for Social Media at American University, Washington D.C.:
Future of Public Media
The Center is proud to be a part of the Ford Foundation's Global Perspectives in a Digital Age: Transforming Public Service Media grant initiative. Led by leading media scholar and American University's School of Communication professor Patricia Aufderheide, Center events include convenings, research, publications and seminars.
Two of several new reports and articles from the Center's Future of Public Media project:
Many to Many
By Martin Lucas (Quicktime, approx. 12 min.)
In its research on the future of public media, the Center has been chasing down how new, participatory media are fast becoming a vibrant part of the public media landscape. As part of this research, filmmaker Martin Lucas produced a short video showing the new and growing promise of the "blogosphere." This is more than individuals publishing their thoughts, it's a veritable global, public conversation.
Free Culture, Phase 2
Kathryn Montgomery, associate professor in the School of Communication and director of the youth media and democracy project at the Center, last May brought together an eclectic brain trust of 50 young "digital leaders" under 30 years of age who want to create democratic access to art, expression, and governance in a digital age. American University School of Communication is pleased to announce the release of the “Free Culture, Phase 2” conference report, available at www.soc.american.edu. The report showcases the active and effective organizations and movements represented at Free Culture, Phase 2
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March 24, 2006
Thinking of Gender and ICT Issues
See Fightin' Words for some information on the World Summit on the Information Society and gender...
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March 20, 2006
Marketing to Children
Image from CREDIT: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., photographer. "Father Reading Newspaper, Children Viewing Television." July 12, 1950. Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955, American Memory collections, Library of Congress.
See http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_tvkid_1_e.html
Corporate Watch Captive Kids, , A Report on Commercial Pressures on Kids at School, 1998.
Media Awareness Network, How Marketers Target Kids.
Susan Linn- Consuming Kids.
American Psychological Association, Advertising to Children: Is it Ethical?
MediaChannel.org. Ads And Kids: How Young Is Too Young?
Canadian Marketing Association. Protecting Your Children's Privacy
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March 10, 2006
COMS 326 - IP
A powerpoint on Intellectual Property - does not include mention of current Canadian copyright reform....
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COMS 326 - New Media Policy Issues
Includes access, IP, privacy, content ... a powerpoint
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COMS 326 - Privacy Issues
A powerpoint on privacy issues re new media...
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February 26, 2006
Cultural Sovereignty & Canada -- Resources
Culturescope.ca a portal of information about Canadian cultural policy.
Canadian Conference of the Arts.
CBC Archives. Ruling the Airwaves: The CRTC and Canadian Content.
Statistics Canada. Canadian Framework for Culture Statistics, 2004.
Statistics Canada. Data Tables on Government Expenditures on Culture, 2000-2004.
Scripts, Screens, and Audiences: A New Feature Film Policy for the 21st Century. Report of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, November 2005.
Spotlight on Canadian Documentaries, presented by Telefilm Canada at the 2005 Doc Policy Summit during the 12th Annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival."
Media Awareness Network Media and Canadian Cultural Policies
Also look in this site under cultural diversity.
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FCB Poll on Broadcasting Issues - Canada/US
Results of a Friends of Canadian Broadcasting survey conducted by Ipsos-Reid on Canada/US relations and Canadian Public Opinion, 2004.
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February 09, 2006
Tuesday Movie Mania
Here are some links to events and movies for Tuesday February 14th.
An interview with director Jehane Noujaim
Peace Propaganda and the Promised Land from the Media Education Foundation.
With your Host with the Most, Ezra Winton of Uberculture and the creator of Cinema Politica , a growing cross-country empire...
Lest you think I am playing real hookey, I will be here (actually I will be in O'Hare in Chicago, but close enough)...
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February 08, 2006
Disneyland Stinks
Jeff B. was not kidding. From the BBC News, June 8, 2001: Clean underwear for Disney worker....
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February 05, 2006
COMS 326 - Some resources for first literature review paper
Here are some resources for the COMS 326 first literature review paper which you may find helpful.
Week 2: January 17
Looking at communication and policy from a critical lens
--communication studies (historiographical perspectives, administrative vs. critical research)
--cultural studies – theory and methodology
--political economy – theory and methodology
Everett M. Rogers. A History of Communication Studies: A Biographical Approach. NY: The Free Press, 1994. Vanier P 90 R613 1994.
Christopher Simpson. Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960. Oxford University Press, 1994. Vanier UB 276 S56 1994
Martin Jay. The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950. Little Brown. 1973. Vanier H 62 J37
Cultural studies – theory and methodology
Lawrence Grossberg. Bringing it All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies. Duke University Press, 1997. Webster HM 101 G8335 1997.
John Story. Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture. University of Georgia Press, 2003. Webster HM 623 S76 2003
Shane Gunster.Capitalizing on Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies. University of Toronto Press, 2004. Vanier CB 427 G85 2004
Cultural Studies in Question, edited by Marjorie Ferguson and Peter Golding. Sage Publications, 1994. Webster P 94.6 C8535 1997
J. David Black. The Politics of Enchantment: Romanticism, Media, and Cultural Studies. Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2002. Vanier B 836.5 B53 2002
Henry Giroux. Cultural Studies, Public Pedagogy and the Responsibility of Intellectuals. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 1(1)(March 2004): 59-79.
Ann Gray. Cultural Studies After the Close of Birmingham: The Impossibility of Critical Pedagogy? Cultural Studies 17(6)(2003): 767-782.
Political economy – theory and methodology
Vincent Mosco. The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal. Sage Publications, 1996. Vanier P 96 E25M68 1996
Vincent Mosco. (2004). The Political Economy Tradition of Media Research. Paper presented to Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Research panel on Trends in Research Issues in the Political Economy of Communication, August 2004. (ask me for a copy of this paper)
Andrew Calabrese, ed. Toward a Political Economy of Culture. Rowman and Littlefield, 2004 In process library.
Eileen Meehan and Ellen Riordan, eds. Sex & Money: Feminism and Political Economy in the Media. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Webster P 96 F46S49 2002.
Richard Maxwell, ed. Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 2001.Webster HM 621 C888 2001
MEDIA POLICY
--how can we look at media policy?
--public broadcasting
--media policy
Media policy
David Young. (2003). Discourses on Communication Technologies in Canadian and European Broadcasting Policy Debates. European Journal of Communication 18(2): 209-240.
Milton Mueller, Christiane Pagé, and Brenden Kuerbis. Civil Society and the Shaping of Communication-Information Policy: Four Decades of Advocacy. The Information Society 20 (2004): 169-185.
Hernan Galperin. Beyond Interests, Ideas, and Technology: An Institutional Approach to Communication and Information Policy. The Information Society 20 (2004): 159-168.
Robert McChesney. Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy. Seven Stories Press, 1997. Vanier P 96 I5M337 1997.
Marc Raboy, ed. Global Media Policy in the New Millennium. University of Luton Press, 1992. Vanier P 95.8 G57 200
Public broadcasting
Michael P. McCauley ... [et al.], editors. Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest. ME Sharpe, 2003. Vanier HE 8700.8 P824 2003
Michael Tracey. The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting. Oxford University Press, 1998.Vanier HE 8689.7 P82T7 1998.
Marc Raboy, ed. Public Broadcasting for the 21st Century. Univ. of Luton Press 1996. Vanier PN 1992.8 P8P84 1996.
Paul Attallah. (2000). Public Broadcasting in Canada: Legitimate Crisis and the Loss of an Audience. Gazette: Journal of International Communication 62(304): 177-203.
Week 3: January 24
Considering audiences
Branding and advertising culture
Inger L. Stole. (2001). Advertising pp. 83-106 in Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture, edited Richard Maxwell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Susan G. Davis. (1999). Space Jam: Media Conglomerates Build the Entertainment City. European Journal of Communication 14(4): 435-459.
Mark Andrejevic. (2003). Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched. Lanham, MD; Rowman & Littlefield.
Naomi Klein. (2000). No Logo. (Vintage Canada).
Matthew Soar. First Things First Manifesto and the Politics of Culture Jamming: Towards a Cultural Economy of Graphic Design and Advertising. Cultural Studies 16(4)(2002): 570-592.
Audiences
Eileen R. Meehan. (2002). Gendering the Commodity Audience: Critical Media Research, Feminism, and Political Economy, pp. 209-222 in Sex & Money: Feminism and Political Economy in the Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Dallas Smythe. (Fall 1977). Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism. Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 1(3): 1-28.
Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell. (2001) Audiences, Chapter 6, pp. 171-194 in Global Hollywood. London: BFI Publishing.
Sonia Livingstone. (April 1999). New Media, New Audiences? New Media & Society 1(1): 59-66.
Week 4: January 31
The Canadian mediascape
MEDIA CONCENTRATION AND OWNERSHIP Vincent Mosco. (2003). The Transformation of Communication in Canada, pp. 287-308 in Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation. Edited Wallace Clement and Leah F. Vosko. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Ronald V. Bettig and Jeanne Lynn Hall. (2003). Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics. Lanham. MD: University of Minnesota Press. Vanier P 96 E25B48 2003 Dan Schiller. (2003). Digital Capitalism: A Status Report on the Corporate Commonwealth of Information, pp. 137-156 in A Companion to Media Studies, edited Angharad N.Valdivia. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Robert McChesney. Rich Media, Poor Democracy. University of Illinois Press 1999. Douglas Kellner. The Media and the Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Bush 2. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 1(1)(March 2004): 29-58. Bruce A. Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini. Monica and Bill All the Time and Everywhere: The Collapse of Gatekeeping and Agenda Setting in the New Media Environment. American Behavioral Scientist 47(9)(May 2004): 1208-1230. Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution, edited by Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster. Monthly Review Press, 1997. Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney. The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism. Cassell, 1996. Vanier P 96 I5H46 1997 Canadian Media Policy Dwayne Winseck. Reconvergence: A Political Economy of Telecommunications in Canada. Hampton Press, 2001. Vanier HE 7815 W56 1998 Marc Raboy. Missed Opportunities: The Story of Canada's Broadcasting Policy. McGill-Queen’s Press, 1990. Vanier PN 1990.6 C3R32 1990. David Taras. Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media. Broadview Press, 1999. Vanier P 92 C3T37 1999 David Taras, F. Pannecok, and M. Bakardjieva. How Canadians Communicate. University of Calgary Press, 2003. Vanier P 92 C3H68 2003 Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade, eds. E-Commerce vs. E-Commons: Communications in the Public Interest Vol. 1. Ottawa: CCPA, 2001. Webster HM 1017 E23 2001 Sherry Ferguson and Leslie Regan Shade eds. Civic Discourse and Cultural Politics in Canada: A Cacophony of Voices. Ablex 2002. Webster JL 186.5 C58 2002 Our Cultural Sovereignty: The Second Century of Canadian Broadcasting, 2003. Alison Beale. (2002). Identifying a Policy Hierarchy: Communication Policy, Media Industries, and Globalization, pp. 78-89 in Global Culture: Media, Arts, Policy, and Globalization. Edited by Diana Crane, Nobuko Kawashima, Ken’ichi Kawasaki. NY: Routledge. Charles Acland. (2003). Northern Screens, pp. 163-195 in Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture. Durham: Duke University Press. Vanier PN 1995.9 A8A28 2003 Peter S. Grant and Chris Wood. (2004). Trade Wars, pp. 352-377 in Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre.
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OUR CULTURAL SOVEREIGNTY: The Second Century of Canadian Broadcasting. Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, Clifford Lincoln, M.P.Chair, June 2003. ... A. The Second Century of Canadian Broadcasting On 10 May 2001, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage announced that it would conduct a study of the Canadian broadcasting system. The Committee's aim was to determine whether the ideals and objectives set out in the Broadcasting Act of 1991 were being met and whether the Act itself was in need of reform. For almost two years the Committee traveled across the country hearing from broadcasting executives and stakeholders as well as ordinary Canadians who wanted to express their views. From the heads of large corporations in Toronto and Montreal to small producers in Moncton and Regina, from Aboriginal broadcasters from Northern Canada to the Raging Grannies in Vancouver, the Committee listened to testimony and experienced the broadcasting system on many levels. The Committee visited some of the sites where our broadcasting system's creators, producers, journalists, actors and distributors do their work. It also studied more than 200 briefs and submissions. In its journey, the Committee was moved by the sense of pride and accomplishment that Canadian creators and producers feel in their work. It encountered a great many success stories — and will document some of these, in a series of vignettes throughout this report. The imagination, determination, talent and energy of those whom it met made an indelible impression. Our artists have pushed boundaries, taken chances and delivered their finest efforts to audiences and, indeed, the world. The Committee also found that Canadians care deeply about their broadcasting system. Whether it was on the future of public broadcasting, the availability of local and community services or the prospects of foreign ownership, citizens expressed their views with great passion and eloquence. While for many of those who appeared before the Committee broadcasting is a livelihood, for most it is a window on the world and a way of knowing about and participating in their communities. For many if not most Canadians, broadcasting is important to their quality of life. The terms of reference that the Committee developed for this study touched on a large number of topics and themes.1 As its work proceeded, it became clear that the Committee would have to take a very hard look at the problems that trouble the system. The last time such an exhaustive examination of Canadian broadcasting was undertaken was in 1986, when the Task Force on Broadcasting Policy, co-chaired by Gerald Caplan and Florian Sauvageau, introduced its report in these terms: The Canadian broadcasting system has many strengths and virtues. Our task, however, is not to dwell on these. Formulating public policy is a matter of trying to make what already may be working well work better. That is why our mandate is to investigate the system, to understand its development, dilemmas and failures, in order to recommend ways and means for its improvement.2 This is the spirit in which the Committee has gone about its task. To do less would have been to shirk its responsibility. The Committee has had to make tough choices. The guiding principle that has motivated Committee members is that the broadcasting system must above all serve the interests of the Canadian people. This report will therefore advocate for greater responsibility, transparency and accountability, for a broadcasting system that reflects what is distinctive about Canada, its racial and cultural diversity, its multitude of expressions and values. It will seek to speak on behalf of the public, indeed, the multiple and diverse publics who cohabit this vast territory. The Committee learned that Canadian broadcasting faces demanding times. Its institutions are struggling to meet the challenges of new technology, globalization, corporate convergence, and the high expectations of Canadians. Indeed, a number of circumstances have come together to form a disturbing pattern, with some representatives of the creative sector saying that there is a crisis in the production of English-language Canadian programming.3 The Committee is gravely concerned about the situation of public broadcasting. The CBC's audiences have plummeted over the last decade and the public broadcaster spends much of its talent and energy searching for the right formula, the right approach, to ensure its place in Canadian life. The search has been painful and frustrating and the goal distant and elusive. There is also cause for serious concern about the production and exhibition of English-language drama. Except in Quebec where audiences are entertained and invigorated by original, home-grown dramatic productions, American programming dominates the airwaves to an extent that is largely unknown and unimaginable in any other country outside of the United States itself. Broadcasting at the community and regional level presents a further set of problems. Canadians seldom have the opportunity to see their own lives and communities reflected in non-news programming in the places where they live. As it traveled around the country the Committee heard compelling evidence about the large gap that exists between local and national programming. Lastly, there is serious uncertainty brought on by the advent of new digital technologies and their global reach. Satellites, the Internet and the personal video recorder (PVR) present new challenges for broadcasters. Applications of these new technologies might allow Canadian programming and advertising to be easily bypassed, disrupting conventional ideas about what constitutes broadcasting. Broadcasters may not have much time to adapt to these changes. This situation plays itself out in different ways for broadcasters, creators and above all for the Canadian public which bears the cost of supporting the broadcasting system. The Committee believes that we have entered a new era in communication and culture, one that holds great promise but also great challenges. Old ways are quickly giving way to new ones and it is critical for government to be proactive, rather than reactive. In Canadian broadcasting's second century, we will have to find new ways to build on our achievements, to preserve and maintain what we have, while charting new objectives and new pathways. Reflecting our diversity will continue to be a basic goal and major challenge. The Committee's approach is based on the recognition that it is necessary to emphasize the integrity of the broadcasting system as a whole. One of the most perceptive contributions the Committee received on this point came from the CEO of Astral Media, Mr. André Bureau, who described Canadian broadcasting as being made up of four key "pillars" (private broadcasters, public broadcasters, distribution undertakings and the independent production sector) and five "building blocks" (CRTC licencing, Canadian ownership, controlling entry of foreign programming services, Canadian content rules, and funding and tax incentives).4 In the Committee's deliberations over the last two years it became clear that all of these are connected, and that the Canadian broadcasting system can be likened to a complex machine where the breakdown of a single working part can threaten the functioning of the machine as a whole. The health of public and private broadcasters depends on the success of independent producers and on government funding mechanisms that are reliable and efficient. The success of programming depends on effective distribution networks. The loyalty of audiences is tied to their sense of place and belonging and whether or not their needs are being served. And the choices available to citizens depend on an effective regulatory framework. In short, the objectives of the Canadian broadcasting system depend on maintaining a delicate balance. The witnesses who appeared before the Committee provided valuable insight into various aspects of the broadcasting system. Their testimony was often compelling and it was taken most seriously. Building on that foundation, the Committee's task has been to determine how the pieces of the puzzle fit together. It has sought to articulate a vision for the system as a whole, as well as for its individual parts. All stakeholders — and above all, the public — will benefit from a broadcasting system that is vigorous and resilient. The Committee recognizes that the notion of "the public interest" can be a very slippery one. Writing about the CBC as early as 1946, political scientist J.E. Hodgetts stated that: It must be recognized at once that the 'public interest' is merely a convenient political hypothesis which will provide a sanction for state intervention and which will, at the same time, presumably create a standard against which government policy can be measured.5 In short, there is an important trade-off here: governments can do just about anything provided they can demonstrate that it is in the public interest, but in order for what they do to be legitimate, the policies they put in place have to be measurable against some standard. A problem in Canadian broadcasting is the absence of adequate tools to determine whether our best-intentioned policy objectives are being met. Many of the Committee's recommendations will seek to address this problem. Endnotes
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In December 2005 Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) announced plans to sell off a large proportion of its media division, Bell GlobeMedia, to Torstar (owner of The Toronto Star newspaper) and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Specifically, BCE is selling 20% to Torstar for $283M; 20% to the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan for $283M; and 8.5% to the Woodbridge Co., a private firm owned by the Thomson family, for $120M. The Thomson family thus now owns 40% of Bell GlobeMedia. In total, BCE will make $1.3B from the deal. The deal needs approval from the CRTC and the Competition Bureau. Resources BCE sells major stake in Bell GlobeMedia to Torstar, Teachers'. Globe and Mail Online. December 2, 2005. Woodbridge and BCE Announce New Ownership Structure for Bell GlobeMedia. BCE Press Release, December 2, 2005. Wendy Glauser. After Honderich. Ryerson Review of Journalism, Summer 2005.[profile of new editor-in-chief of The Toronto Star Giles Gherson]
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Image from Trek Thunder From The Subliminal Party of Canada, a series of Liberal Party spoof ads from the 2006 election campaign. NPR - Canadian Politics Rich Material for Satirist (re Rick Mercer). Ed's Back! a 2004 rap music video when Ed Broadbent came back to the NDP to run in Ottawa Centre riding. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Donald Trump to Bush - You're Fired! Will Ferrell - A Message from White House West. Bush in 30 Seconds , a project from Moveon.org voter fund...a series of ads....from the 2004 election... 2002- from BBC - Blair dismisses Hitler Spoof Ad. 2004 US Presidential Election Campaign Ads culled from SourceWatch. Megan M. Boler - prof at OISE - Rethinking Media, Democracy And Citizenship: New Media Practices And Online Digital Dissent After September 11.
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Don't write off Hollywood and the big media groups just yet/ “PAIN is temporary, film is forever.” That hopeful thought, which found its way into the original script of Peter Jackson's recent re-make of “King Kong”, might be seized upon by today's beleaguered entertainment industry. Media companies are suffering intense pain—and it is starting to seem worryingly permanent. In America shares of “old” media firms such as News Corporation, Comcast and other giants of television, film, radio and print, have fallen 25% behind the S&P 500 in the past two years, despite some heroic financial results. Meanwhile, the market value of Google, which made its debut on the stockmarket in 2004, is now equal to the combined worth of Walt Disney, News Corporation and Viacom, three beasts of the old media jungle. One investor, who recently moved two-thirds of his $1 billion fund out of American media and into emerging-market companies, moans that “the market thinks something's going to get them, whether it's piracy, personal video recorders, or Google.” ....
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Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications "News matters. Journalism matters. No real democracy can function without healthy, diverse and independent news media to inform people about the way their society works, what is going well and, perhaps most important, what is not going well or needs to be improved. The news of the day is always a rough and ready thing, produced in a rush to deadline and inevitably based on imperfect understanding of complex realities, but it is the first guide citizens have to understanding their own community, and often the only such guide that can plausibly claim not to be self-inte rested. It follows that in a democracy, it is vital that government policy be established in such a way as to foster healthy and independent news media. The paradox and the danger lie in the fact that to do their job properly, the news media must be independent from government influence over the news they carry. It may be worth recalling in this context that the news media are perhaps the only industry to receive explicit protection in Canada’s constitution: Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees not only freedom of expression but also freedom of the press and other media of communication. There are – there will always be – passionate arguments about the precise meaning of freedom of the press, but there is no argument about its fundamental importance." "So it is with considerable caution that the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications has undertaken this study of Canada’s news media, and of the appropriate stance of public policy at the start of the 21st century. The members of the committee are aware that in comparison to most of the world, Canadians have been and are well served by their news media, not only in the provision of factual news but also in the amount and quality of investigative journalism, analysis and commentary. It is no part of our mandate to imperil that good fortune. Yet it remains true that a substantial part of public policy does have an impact on the news media. Some of the impact is of a relatively general nature: elements of public policy such as general taxation systems, securities regulation, labour legislation, consumer protection rules or environmental controls are not devised specifically to target the news media, although they will have a great impact there as elsewhere. Other elements of public policy are more directly, though perhaps not exclusively, aimed at the news media: examples range from libel laws to federal regulation of the broadcasting industry, through the Broadcasting Act and the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission."
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A selected list of web resources related to media ownership issues in the US, Canada, and globally. United States MediaChannel.org Columbia Journalism Review – Who Owns What Center for Digital Democracy – Media Ownership The Center for Public Integrity – Well Connected Media Reform Information Center Special from The Nation ( January 7-14, 2002 ) The Making of a Movement - McChesney and Nichols Something Old, Something New- Jeffrey Chester & Gary O. Larson What's Wrong with this Picture? Mark Crispin Miller Senate of Canada. Standing Committe on Transport and Communications. 38th Parliament, 1st Session (October 4, 2004 - November 29, 2005). Global Media Ownership Open Democracy – Global Media Democracy Robert McChesney and Dan Schiller. The Political Economy of International Communications: Foundations for the Emerging Global Debate About Media Ownership and Regulation. UNRISD, 2003. Human Development Report 2001 – Making New Technologies Work for Human Development
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A link to an old courseweb on Women and Media, taught at the University of Ottawa, with some links to various resources and interesting examples of gender depictions in advertising. Note: the site has not been kept up to date and many of the links could be defunct. Advertising Standards Canada Gender Portrayal Guidelines. CRTC Gender Portrayal Guidelines.
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Cultural Logic of Media Convergence....
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Some blurbs on The Tradition of Canadian Communication Theory and Political Economy of Communication: Canadian Theorists can be found here.
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Sara Grimes and Leslie Regan Shade. (June 2005). Neopian Economics of Play: Children’s Cyberpets and Online Communities as Immersive Advertising in NeoPets.com, The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 1(2): 181-198.
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Leslie Regan Shade. (2005). Aspergate: Concentration, Convergence and Censorship in Canadian Media, pp. 101-116 in Converging Media Diverging Politics: A Political Economy of News in the United States and Canada, edited David Skinner, James Compton and Mike Gasher. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books).
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LIBRARY RESOURCES Online Journals Canadian Journal of Communication Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies Databases Concordia University Library – Communication Studies Database Finder Sage Publications Journals --Communication & Mass Media Complete Other Databases Other Journals (at Con U Library) Canadian Journal of Communication
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Scroll down for various resources related to debate topics for the course. Should CanWest be allowed to impose a national editorial policy? Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. (April 2002). Not in the Newsroom. Terry Glavin. (June 16, 2002). CanWest's agenda should worry Canadians. The Winnipeg Free Press. On the Media, from NPR. (March 1, 2002). Canadian Conglomeration. Your Media – focus on CanWest. CBC Archives. Concentration to Convergence: Media Ownership in Canada. CBC Archives. Ruling the Airwaves. The CRTC and Canadian Content. CBC (November 18, 2004). CRTC Approves Fox News. CCTA. (November 18, 2004). Fox News: Cable Industry Pleased with CRTC Decision. Parliamentary debate on Hansard, November 25 2004. Focus on the Family support, 2004. David Akin’s blog, November 18, 2004. Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB). (August 16 2005). CRTC should not reward Fox. FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). (July 2, 2001). The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's Extraordinary Right-Wing Tilt. Daniel Pipes and Charlotte West. (August 13, 2004). DeNeen L. Brown. (Monday, July 26, 2004). In Canada, Exceptions Are Rule for Al-Jazeera: Distributors Must Monitor, May Alter Programs. Washington Post Foreign Service: Page A13. CAIR – Council on American-Islamic Relations Canada. (August 11, 2003). Submission to the CRTC on Al-Jazeera. Aliaa I. Dakroury. (Fall 2005). Whose Right to Communicate: Al-Jazeera or CRTC? Global Media Journal. Mark Bourrie. (July 20 2004). Yes Means no for al-Jazeera in Canada. Inter-Press News Agency. Steve Gold. (March 2005). Our worst enemy? A second look at Al-Jazeera finds the network less baiting. Ryerson Review of Journalism. Should we impost screen quotas for the Canadian film and exhibition industry in order to protect cultural sovereignty? Canadian Heritage. (June 1998). A Review of Canadian Feature Film Policy: Summary of Submissions. News Release: Committee will be studying the Canadian Feature Film Industry. Canadian Heritage releases Nordicity evaluation of the Canadian Feature Film Industry. (September 30 2005). Competition Bureau. (May 10, 2005). Study of the Canadian Feature Film Industry Remarks to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. CBC Archives. Bright Lights, Political Fights: The Canadian Film Industry. CRTC decision on satellite radio CBC News. Satellite Radio. Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. CRTC Satellite Pay Radio Decisions: Take Action Now to Defend Canadian Radio Programs. Satellite Radio – Digital Insurrection Culturescope.ca. Satellite Radio Decision: A Selection of Background Information. Telecommunications Policy Review Panel: support or contest some of its recommendations; are the recommendations in the public interest? Telecommunications Policy Review Panel Should US law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI, have access to Canadian information and data outsourced to private United States contractors, under the U.S. Patriot Act? Privacy & the USA Patriot Act - Implications for British Columbia Public Sector Outsourcing, 2004. CIPPIC on the case , scroll down CBC News. (October 20, 2004). USA Patriot Act comes under fire in B.C. report. 2004. Public Forum in Vancouver looks at the The USA Patriot Act and Canadian Privacy. Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Transferring Personal Information about Canadians Across Borders - Implications of the USA PATRIOT Act. Laura J. Murray, resoources at her faircopy site. Should there be limits on new forms of online marketing practices targeting children? Media Awareness Network. How Marketers Target Kids Online. Concerned Children’s Advertisers. Resources from UIUC re commercialization and kids and the WWW (not dated) Is the GMMP a useful tool to monitor gender representation and equity in the media?
--mapping media ownership nationally and globally
Robert W. McChesney and Dan Schiller. (October 2003). The Political Economy of International Communications: Foundations for the Emerging Global Debate over Media Ownership and Regulation. Paper prepared for the UNRISD Project on Information Technologies and Social Development, as part of UNRISD background work for the World Summit on the Information Society.
Webster QA 76.9 C66C37 1998
Darin Barney. Communication Policy. UBC Press, 2005.
Vanier. L 186.5 B37 2005
http://www.parl.gc.ca/InfoComDoc/37/2/HERI/Studies/Reports/herirp02-e.htm
Week 7: February 28
Broadcasting and cultural sovereigntyOur Cultural Sovereignty
Chapter 1
Introduction
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1 See Appendix 1.
2 Report of the Task Force on Broadcasting Policy (Caplan-Sauvageau) (Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1986), p. 5.
3 See, for example, Mr. Thor Bishopric, President, Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, Meeting of Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, 9 May 2002.
4 Astral Media, Site Visit, 3 May 2002.
5 J. E. Hodgetts, "Administration and Politics: The Case of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation," Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science (1946): 454-469.
January 29, 2006
New Changes in Canada’s Media Ownership
Spoof Ads - Politics and Media
The Economist - King Content - January 21, 2006
January 28, 2006
INTERIM REPORT ON THE CANADIAN NEWS MEDIA
Fourth Report
Chair: The Honourable Joan Fraser
Deputy Chair: The Honourable Leonard Gustafson
April 2004Media Ownership Resources
Media Channel ownership
Big Ten Media Chart
Take this Media Please!
Canada
CBC Archives – Concentration to Convergence: Media Ownership in Canada
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
Interim Report on the Canadian News Media, tabled in the Senate on April 1, 2004.
January 23, 2006
Gender Portrayal in Advertising
January 20, 2006
Jenkins article
January 19, 2006
326 - notes on policy
326 - notes on cultural studies
326 - notes on political economy
326 - Notes on PE and Can Comm Theory
January 16, 2006
Neopets paper
Aspergate
326 - Concordia University Library Resources
...not online content, but check here for TOCs and interesting links
Communication Research
Convergence
Discourse & Society
Discourse Studies
European Journal of Communication
Games and Culture
Gazette
Global Media and Communication
Journal of Communication Inquiry
Journalism
Media, Culture & Society
New Media & Society
Television & New Media
Visual Communication
--Communication Abstracts on Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
--Advertising Age, American Journalism, American Journalism Review, Broadcasting, Broadcasting & Cable, Broadcasting & Telecommunications, Broadcasting and the Law, Canadian Journal of Communication, Columbia Journalism Review, Communication, Communication Abstracts, European Journal of Communication, Extra!, Federal Communications law Journal, Feminist Media Studies, Gazette, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, Index on Censorship, Information Communication & Society, InterMedia, Journal of Advertising. Journal of Advertising History, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Broadcasting, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Communication, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Mass Communication & Society, Media. Culture and Society, Media Development, Media History, Media Report to Women, Media Studies Journal, New Cinemas, New Media & Society, Nordicom Review, Peace Research, Political Communication, Public Culture, Screen, Telecommunications Policy, Television and New Media, Theory, Culture and Society, Velvet Light Trap, Women’s Studies in Communication
Alternative Press Index
CBCA Complete (Canadian Business)…
ABI Inform
Business and Industry
Hoover’s Company Information
Inter-Corporate Ownership
ProQuest databases
Canadian Newstand on ProQuest
Cultural Studies
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Theory, Culture & Society
Feminist Media Studies
The Information Society
Telecommunications Policy
Development (Society for International Development)
Topia326 Debate Resources
Support or disagree with the CRTC decision on Fox News
Support or disagree with the CRTC decision on Al Jazeera
Al-Jazeera in Al-Canada? FrontPageMagazine.com.
(December 22, 2004).
Does Bill C-60 strengthen the public domain?
Miriam Zoll. Psychologists Challenge Ethics Of Marketing To Children. Media Channel.