Communication History in Canada is an edited collection of readings, many written by Canadian academics teaching at Canadian institutions. It offers a distinctive blend of history, geography, government, economics, and biculturalism that reflects the distinctive evolution of communication systems and mass media in Canada. The second edition contains a new chapter on the European and Aboriginal origins of communication history in Canada and contains new readings on the Internet and 'new' media.
Communication History in Canada is an edited collection of readings, many written by Canadian academics teaching at Canadian institutions. It offers a distinctive blend of history, geography, government, economics, and biculturalism that reflects the distinctive evolution of communication systems and mass media in Canada. The second edition contains a new chapter on the European and Aboriginal origins of communication history in Canada and contains new readings on the Internet and 'new' media.
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).
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* 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
* 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
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