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Political Science General

Media Divides

Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada

by (author) Marc Raboy & Jeremy Shtern

contributions by William J. McIver, Laura J. Murray, Seán Ó Siochrú & Leslie Regan Shade

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2010
Category
General, Communications
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774859301
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774817752
    Publish Date
    Jan 2011
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774817745
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $95.00

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Description

Canada is at a critical juncture in the evolution of its communications policy. Will our information and communications technologies continue in a market-oriented, neoliberal direction, or will they preserve and strengthen broader democratic values? Media Divides offers a comprehensive, up-to-date audit of communications law and policy. Using the concept of communications rights as a framework for analysis, leading scholars not only reveal the nation’s democratic deficits in five key domains – media, access, the Internet, privacy, and copyright – they also formulate recommendations, including the establishment of a Canadian right to communicate, for the future.

About the authors

MARC RABOY is Beaverbrook Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He has been a visiting scholar at Stockholm University, the University of Oxford, New York University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Raboy is the author or editor of some twenty books, including Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World, finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the RBC Taylor Prize, and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. He lives in Montreal.

 

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Laura J Murray is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. She is co-author with Samuel E Trosow of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide (Between the Lines, 2007; second edition forthcoming 2013), and, with Tina S Piper and Kirsty M Robertson, of Putting Intellectual Property in its Place: Rights Discourses, Creative Labour, and the Everyday (forthcoming, Oxford, 2013). She has published in Indigenous studies and American literature; current research interests include history of reading, the nature of the newspaper, creative economies, and cultural policy.

 

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