Converging Media, Diverging Politics

A Political Economy of News Media in the United States and Canada

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

AvDavid Skinner,James R. Compton,Michael Gasher

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What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and Canada investigate this question, exploring the effects of media concentration in democratic systems. Specifically, the scholars collected here consider, from a range of vantage points, how corporate and technological convergence in the news industry in the United States and Canada impacts journalism's expressed role as a medium of democratic communication. More generally, and by necessity, Converging Media, Diverging Politics speaks to larger questions about the role that the production and circulation of news and information does, can, and should serve. The editors have gathered an impressive array of critical essays, featuring interesting and well-documented case studies that will prove useful to both students and researchers of communications and media studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-10-12
Mått167 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt667 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739108277

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Chapter 1 Prologue: Has a Free Press Helped to Kill Democracy?Chapter 2 Mapping the ThreadsChapter 3 U.S. Media Policy Then and NowChapter 4 So Much by So Few: Media Policy and Ownership in CanadaChapter 5 Clear Channel:The Poster Child for Everything that's Wrong with ConsolidationChapter 6 Aspergate: Concentration, Convergence, and Censorship in Canadian MediaChapter 7 Hyper-Commercialism and the Media: The Threat to Journalism and Democratic DiscourseChapter 8 News Agency Dominance in International News on the InternetChapter 9 Bourdieu's "Show and Hide" Paradox Reconsidered: Audience Experiences of Convergence in the Canadian MediascapeChapter 10 Reforming Media: Parries and Pirouettes in the U.S. Policy ProcessChapter 11 Angels of the Public Interest: U.S. Media ReformChapter 12 Journalism Education in the Posthistorical UniversityChapter 13 The Alternative Communication Movement in Quebec's MediascapeChapter 14 Canadian Cyberactivism in the Cycle of Counterglobalization StrugglesChapter 15 Turning the Tide