Firmly grounded in a political economy approach, this new Canadian edition is an innovative introduction to media and communication that examines issues of ownership, access, and control as technologies combine to create new hybrid technologies that are changing the way we relate to each other
and the world around us. Expertly adapted to meet the needs and interests of Canadian students, this text maintains a global perspective while integrating Canadian research, data, government policy and legislation, and examples throughout.
Author's Preface
Acknowledgements
From the Publisher
Abbreviations
Introduction: Navigating the Signposts: Yesterday the Telephone, Today the Mobile Phone, Tomorrow the Embodied Transceiver?
Part I: Dialectics of Communication
1. Digital Dilemmas: Contradictions and
Conflicts in Communication
2. A Political Economy of Communication
3. Contextualizing Technology: Convergence and Contradictions
Part II: From Hot Metal to Hotmail: A (Recent) History of Media and Communication
4. From Gutenberg to Global News: A Brief History of the Print
Media
5. Industrial Light and Magic: A Brief History of Still and Moving Pictures
6. Telegraphy, the Talking Wireless, and Television
7. From Calculation to Cyberia: Computing over 2,500 years
Part III: Re-Emergence of Convergence: New Century, New Media?
8. The Golden Age
of the Internet?
9. Policy Convergence: The Government Regulation of Communication
10. Who's a Journalist Now? The Expanded Reportorial Community
Part IV: From Broadcasting to Narrowcasting: A Surveillance Political Economy
11. We Know What You're Doing... The Surveillance
Society Has Arrived
12. That's the Way the Cookie Rumbles: A Surveillance Economy
13. Politics and New Media
Glossary
References
Index
Instructor's Manual
- Chapter overviews
- Student learning objectives
- Sample lecture outlines
- Key concepts
- Classroom debate ideas
Test Bank
For each chapter:
- 20 multiple choice questions
- 10 true-or-false questions
- 5 short answer
questions
- 5 essay questions
- Answer key with page references
PowerPoint Slides
- Lecture outline slides
Annotated Web Links
- Links from the text
- Additional resources
E-Book (ISBN 9780199000531)
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Martin Hirst is an associate professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University.
John Harrison is a senior lecturer in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Queensland.
Patricia Mazepa is an associate professor in the
Department of Communication at York University.
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