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Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada
Marc Raboy
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Description for Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada
Hardback. Media Divides offers the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the democratic deficits in Canada's communications law and policy. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; GTC; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 771.
Media Divides offers a comprehensive democratic audit of communications law and policy. Using the concept of communications rights as a framework for analysis in five key domains – media, access, the Internet, privacy, and copyright – leading analysts reveal that Canada’s failure to respond adequately to a host of pressures and developments has left its citizens with unequal access to the nation’s communications system and the freedom of expression it promises.
Media Divides offers a comprehensive democratic audit of communications law and policy. Using the concept of communications rights as a framework for analysis in five key domains – media, access, the Internet, privacy, and copyright – leading analysts reveal that Canada’s failure to respond adequately to a host of pressures and developments has left its citizens with unequal access to the nation’s communications system and the freedom of expression it promises.
Media Divides not only offers the first up-to-date account of the democratic deficits in Canada’s communications policy, it formulates recommendations – including the establishment of a Canadian right to ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774817745
SKU
V9780774817745
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About Marc Raboy
Marc Raboy is Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Jeremy Shtern is a Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University. Contributors: William J. McIver Jr., Laura J. ... Read more
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