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Media, structures, and power [electronic resource] : the Robert E. Babe collection / edited by Edward A. Comor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2011 2012)Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 436 p.) : port., digital fileISBN:
  • 9781442686434 (electronic bk.)
  • 144268643X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.2 23
LOC classification:
  • P96.E25 M435 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The Place of Information in Economics -- Communication: Blind Spot of Western Economics -- Copyright and Culture -- 'Life Is Information': The Communication Thought of Graham Spry -- Media Technology and the Great Transformation of Canadian Cultural Policy -- Control of Telephones: The Canadian Experience -- Convergence and Divergence: Telecommunications, Old and New -- An Information Revolution? -- Vertical Integration and Productivity: Canadian Telecommunications -- Foundations of Canadian Communication Thought -- Innis, Saul, Suzuki -- Harold Innis and the Paradox of Press Freedom -- The Communication Thought of Herbert Marshall McLuhan -- Red Toryism: George Grant's Communication Philosophy Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) World View -- Innis, Environment, and New Media -- The Political Economy of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (as Before) -- Cultural Studies, Poststructuralism, Political Economy -- Political Economy of Economics -- Political Language: The Political Economy of Knowledge -- Robert Babe, Personal Reflections.
Summary: "Media, Structures, and Power is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada's leading communication and media studies scholar, Robert E. Babe. Spanning almost four decades of scholarship, the volume reflects the breadth of Babe's work, from media and economics to communications history and political economy."--Pub. desc.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-436).

The Place of Information in Economics -- Communication: Blind Spot of Western Economics -- Copyright and Culture -- 'Life Is Information': The Communication Thought of Graham Spry -- Media Technology and the Great Transformation of Canadian Cultural Policy -- Control of Telephones: The Canadian Experience -- Convergence and Divergence: Telecommunications, Old and New -- An Information Revolution? -- Vertical Integration and Productivity: Canadian Telecommunications -- Foundations of Canadian Communication Thought -- Innis, Saul, Suzuki -- Harold Innis and the Paradox of Press Freedom -- The Communication Thought of Herbert Marshall McLuhan -- Red Toryism: George Grant's Communication Philosophy Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) World View -- Innis, Environment, and New Media -- The Political Economy of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (as Before) -- Cultural Studies, Poststructuralism, Political Economy -- Political Economy of Economics -- Political Language: The Political Economy of Knowledge -- Robert Babe, Personal Reflections.

"Media, Structures, and Power is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada's leading communication and media studies scholar, Robert E. Babe. Spanning almost four decades of scholarship, the volume reflects the breadth of Babe's work, from media and economics to communications history and political economy."--Pub. desc.

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