Social Science Poverty & Homelessness
Everyone Says No
Public Service Broadcasting and the Failure of Translation
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2011
- Category
- Poverty & Homelessness, Media Studies
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- ISBN
- 9780773587113
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Focusing on the English- and French-language networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Kyle Conway draws on the CBC/Radio Canada rich print and video archive as well as journalists' accounts of their reporting to revisit the story of the accords and the furor they stirred in both French and English Canada. He shows that CBC/Radio Canada attempts to translate language and culture and encourage understanding among Canadians actually confirmed viewers' pre-existing assumptions rather than challenging them. The first book to examine translation in Canadian news, Everyone Says No also provides insight into Canada's constitutional history and the challenges faced by contemporary public service broadcasters in increasingly multilingual and multicultural communities.
About the author
Kyle Conway is an associate professor of communication at the University of Ottawa. He has published widely on communication and translation, including the books The Art of Communication in a Polarized World (2020), Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation (2017) and Everyone Says No: Public Service Broadcasting and the Failure of Translation (2011).