Communication History in Canada

2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-543018-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Communication History in Canada, Second Edition, contains 5 sections and just under 30 readings. The readings cover technological, social, political, and economic topics concerning the historical evolution of communication and mass media in Canada, beginning in the eighteenth century. All of the readings have been previously published, mostly by journals or academic presses, the majority within the past five years.

In most cases, the readings examine the historical period when new media or communication technologies were introduced, along with subsequent changes to social relations, business practices, state regulation, and existing media and communication systems. A wide range of analytical approaches is represented, from neo-Marxism to post-modernist theories of reader response. Most of the readings are empirical in nature, and none are heavily theoretical or laden with jargon. They are accessible to the undergraduate audience.

The readings, written by researchers or teachers of Canadian communication history, encompass a wide cross-section of disciplines-Communication Studies, Journalism, Media Studies, History, Film, and Geography. Of the universities represented-among them Brock, Carleton, McMaster, Toronto, Queen's, Concordia, York, Manitoba, Western Ontario, Windsor, Saskatchewan, Alberta-many of which have large or recently launched communication programs.

The book has a general introduction and concise introductory comments for each of the sections, for interpretation and cohesion. Annotated further readings and critical thinking questions are included in the part openers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Daniel J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Section I European Origins: Orality, Literacy, and Print

- Some Psychodynamics of Orality

- From The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences

- The Rise of the Reading Public

- Interpreting Aboriginal Cultures

- Section II Time, Space, Culture, Nation

- From Empire and Communications

- Thinking about Technology

- Radio: The Tribal Drum

- Technological Nationalism

- A Cultural Approach to Communication

- Section III Postal Systems, Telecommunications, and the Internet

- Lowering 'the Walls of Oblivion': The Revolution in Postal Communications in Central Canada, 1851-1911

- Back to the Future: Telecommunications, Online Information Services, and Convergence from 1840 to 1910

- Communication and Social Forms: The Development of the Telephone, 1876-1920 Communication and Social Forms: The Development of the Telephone, 1876-1920

- From the World Brain to the World Wide Web

- Behind the Silicon Curtain: Perception Management and the Adjustment Agenda

- Section IV Print Mass Media

- 'The Most Powerful Engine of the Human Mind': The Press and Its Readers

- Public Myth and Private Reality

- Newspapers, Advertising, and the Rise of the Agency, 1850-1900

- Marketing Gum, Making Meanings: Wrigley in North America, 1890-1930

- The Special Role of Magazines in the History of Canadian Mass Media and National Development

- 'Mrs Chatelaine' vs 'Mrs Slob': Contestants, Correspondents, and the Chatelaine Community in Action, 1961-1969

- Section V Broadcast Media

- 'Who is to Pay for Broadcasting?'

- Graham Spry and Public Broadcasting

- Constructing Community and Consumers: Joseph R. Smallwood's Barrelman Radio Program

- Public-Service Broadcasting as a Modern Project: A Case Study of Early Public-Affairs Television in Canada

- 'And Now a Word from Our Sponsor'

- Rock the Nation: MuchMusic, Cultural Policy, and the Development of English-Canadian Music Video Programming, 1979-1984

- Section VI Cultural Industries: Film and Sound Recording

- The National Film Board and Government

- From The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema

- A 'Featureless' Film Policy: Culture and the Canadian State

- The English-Canadian Recording Industry since 1970

- Peace, Order, and Good Songs: Popular Music and English-Canadian Culture

- Appendix: Government Documents

- Report of the Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting

- From Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in Arts, Letters, and Sciences

- Contributors

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel J. Robinson is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His main teaching areas include advertising, broadcasting policy, opinion polling, and political communication. Robinson has written a book with University of Toronto Press called The Measure of Democracy: Polling, Market Research, and Public Life, 1930-1945 (1999) and is currently working on an edited collection with colleague Gene Allen called Communicating in Canada's Past: Approaches to the History of Print and Broadcast Media (UTP, forthcoming 2009).