What does Canadian popular culture say about the construction andnegotiation of Canadian national identity? This third volume of HowCanadians Communicate describes the negotiation of popular cultureacross terrains where national identity is built by producers andaudiences, government and industry, history and geography, ethnicitiesand citizenships.

Canada does indeed have a popular culture distinct from othernations. How Canadians Communicate III gathers thecountry's most inquisitive experts on Canadian popular culture toprove its thesis.

Bart Beaty is associate professor of communication and culture at the University of Calgary. His work has been published in the Comics Journal, International Journal of Comic Art, Canadian Journal of Communication, Essays in Canadian Writing, and Canadian Review of American Studies.

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Derek Briton is Associate Director of Athabasca University’s Centre for Integrated Studies. His research focuses on the psychoanalysis of society and culture, particularly the implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for teaching and learning.

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Gloria Filax teaches and coordinates the Equality/Social Justice stream in the MAIS program at Athabasca University. Her research interests include gender/sexuality studies, processes of racialization, disability studies, and other forms of normalization.

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Rebecca Sullivan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. She has written and published extensively on cultural studies and issues in communication theory.

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