Nor shall I confine my interest to the British Empire as a unique phenomenon , since it is to an important extent a collection of ... the St. Lawrence , and Hudson Bay , and the rivers of its drainage basin 23 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
Author: Harold Adams Innis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0742555089
Category: History
Page: 287
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Talks about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. This work traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media. It presents the author's own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge.
-This is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influences the development of consciousness and societies.
Author: Harold A. Innis
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781550026627
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 287
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"Empire and Communications" is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influences the development of consciousness and societies.-This is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influences the development of consciousness and societies.
Also see Harold A. Innis, Empire and Communications (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972); and his The Bias of Communication (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971). In Empire and Communications — now considered a seminal ...
Author: Mark D. Alleyne
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781349241859
Category: Political Science
Page: 184
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Over seven chapters the book shows how international communication has been shaped by the structure of international political power and how these means of global communication have in turn been strategic tools for the exercise of international political power. There are separate chapters on global news flows, the international trade in cultural products (films, books, advertising, recorded music, periodicals and books), and government propaganda activities. The politics of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) are analysed.
Oliver Boyd-Barrett. MEDIA GLOBALIZATION AND EMPIRE Edited by Oliver Boyd-Barrett Communications Media, Globalization and Empire Communications Media, Globalization and Empire. COMMUNICATIONS Front Cover.
Author: Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780861969142
Category: Social Science
Page: 434
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An exploration of the political economy of media, and to what extent global communications and popular entertainment continue to serve elite interests. In Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire, an international team of experts analyzes and critiques the political economy of media communications worldwide. Their analysis takes particular account of the sometimes conflicting pressures of globalization and “neo-imperialism.” The first is commonly defined as the dismantling of barriers to trade and cultural exchange and responds significantly to lobbying of the world’s largest corporations, including media corporations. The second concerns US pursuit of national security interests as response to “terrorism,” at one level and, at others, to intensifying competition among both nations and corporations for global natural resources.
ing rival imperial communication systems that could not be justified according to sound business practice , the " internationalization of control " idea would share the cost of a jointly owned Empire Communications Network among ...
Author: Dwayne R. Winseck
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822389991
Category: History
Page: 456
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Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies and the content they provided. Conventional histories suggest that the growth of global communications correlated with imperial expansion: an increasing number of cables were laid as colonial powers competed for control of resources. Winseck and Pike argue that the role of the imperial contest, while significant, has been exaggerated. They emphasize how much of the global media system was in place before the high tide of imperialism in the early twentieth century, and they point to other factors that drove the proliferation of global media links, including economic booms and busts, initial steps toward multilateralism and international law, and the formation of corporate cartels. Drawing on extensive research in corporate and government archives, Winseck and Pike illuminate the actions of companies and cartels during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, in many different parts of the globe, including Africa, Asia, and Central and South America as well as Europe and North America. The complex history they relate shows how cable companies exploited or transcended national policies in the creation of the global cable network, how private corporations and government agencies interacted, and how individual reformers fought to eliminate cartels and harmonize the regulation of world communications. In Communication and Empire, the multinational conglomerates, regulations, and the politics of imperialism and anti-imperialism as well as the cries for reform of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth emerge as the obvious forerunners of today’s global media.
An imperial wireless and cable conference is now endeavoring to establish a definite policy for Empire communications , but it will undoubtedly be some time before a complete investigation and solution of the present problems is made .
29 Canada is on the margin of the American empire , an imperial project which Innis viewed as violently unstable and self ... And yet to the extent that it is still outside , Innis can begin and end his Empire and Communications with ...
Author: Reginald Whitaker
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773508783
Category: Political Science
Page: 337
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Bringing together the best of Reg Whitaker's essays on democracy, federalism, and the state, A Sovereign Idea will be essential reading for anyone interested in the rise of the idea of democracy in Canada. The essays, each in its own way, are an attempt to discover how a more democratic Canada can be achieved.
University of Toronto Press, 1978) 17 H. Innis, Empire & Communications, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972) 18 Please refer to Paul Heyer's, Harold Innis, (Lanham: Roman & Littlefield, 2003), particularly the fifth chapter, ...
Author: Tara Brabazon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317150879
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 342
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Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem if eating is balanced with exercise. But without the skills of media and information literacy, students and citizens wade through low quality online information that fills their day yet does not enable intellectual challenge, imagination and questioning. Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness probes the social, political and academic difficulties in managing large quantities of low quality information. But this book does not diagnose a crisis. Instead, Digital Dieting provides strategies to develop intellectual fitness that sorts the important from the irrelevant and the remarkable from the banal. In April 2010, and for the first time, Facebook received more independent visitors than Google. Increasingly there is a desire to share rather than search. But what is the impact of such a change on higher education? If students complain that the reading is ’too hard’, then one response is to make it easier. If students complain that assignments are too difficult, then one way to manage this challenge is to make the assignments simpler. Both are passive responses that damage the calibre of education and universities in the long term. Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness provides active, conscious, careful and applicable strategies to move students and citizens from searching to researching, sharing to thinking, and shopping to reading.
Author: United States. Federal Communications CommissionPublish On: 1982
Empire Communications Company , 33 FCC 2d 721 ( Rev. Bd . 1972 ) , where the Review Board observed that “ the clear intention of this section is to consider ownership amendments as major amendments only when they constitute very ...
Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission