Business & Economics Media & Communications Industries
Telecommunications in Canada
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1994
- Category
- Media & Communications Industries, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442680425
- Publish Date
- Jan 1994
- List Price
- $51.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802067388
- Publish Date
- Apr 1990
- List Price
- $50.00
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Description
This study provides Canada's first comprehensive, integrated treatment of the emergence and development of key communication sectors: telegraph telephones, cable TV, broadcasting, communication satellites, and electronic publishing. By focusing on real institutions, actual (and frequently predatory) business practices, and law and regulatory policies, in both historical and contemporary perspectives, Babe helps demystify current communication issues.
Stressing the flexibility of communication 'technologies' on the one hand, and the element of corporate power on the other, Babe reintroduces the principle of corporate/governmental responsibility for communication outcomes, a principle that has been largely drowned out by the shrill cries of 'Information Revolution.'
About the author
Robert E. Babe is a professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.