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Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture

mir — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:22:10 -0400

The 2006 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize was awarded to Dr. Bart Beaty, of the University of Calgary, for Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2005). The prize is awarded annually by the Canadian Communications Association for the best book in communications written by a Canadian scholar or one who works and lives in Canada.

ISBN:56-987-099. Year:2006

INTRODUCTION AUX MÉTHODES DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATION

Rebecca Sullivan — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:02:25 -0500

INTRODUCTION AUX MÉTHODES DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATION
Luc Bonneville, Sylvie Grosjean et Martine Lagacé
Préface d'Alain Laramée
Avant-propos de Pierre Bélanger
300 pages approx.
ISBN 2-89105-948-4

TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Préface d'Alain Laramée
Avant-propos de Pierre Bélanger

PREMIÈRE PARTIE :
LA RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATION
Paroles de chercheur : Gaëtan Tremblay

Chapitre 1 : Les enjeux, les axes et les fondements épistémologiques
1.1 Les enjeux de la recherche en communication
1.2 La présentation de la démarche scientifique

Gender in the Information Society: Emerging issues

Rebecca Sullivan — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:48:39 -0500

Gender in the Information Society: Emerging issues

Editors: Anita Gurumurthy, Parminder Jeet Singh, Anu Mundkur and Mridula
Swamy
(c) UNDP-APDIP, Elsevier, 2006, 142 pages
ISBN: 81-312-0632-7

http://www.apdip.net/news/genderis

This publication features a collection of 13 papers developed for a
Pre-World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) seminar, Gender
Perspectives on the Information Society: South Asia Pre-WSIS Seminar, on
18-19 April 2005 in Bangalore, India.

This selection of papers makes available a valuable body of information in

Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma and Nuclear Threat

mir — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:33:17 -0400

Dr. Peter Van Wyck, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University.

Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma and Nuclear Threat(University of Minnesota Press, 2004)

ISCN: 787-909060. Year:2005

Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture

mir — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:05:30 -0400

Charles Acland, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University

Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture (Duke University Press, 2003)

ISBN: 12345-5678. Year: 2004

Law, Rhetoric and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture.

mir — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:41:55 -0400

Michael Dorland and Maurice Charland, School of Communication, Carleton University and Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University.

Law, Rhetoric and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture. (University of Toronto Press, 2002)

Year: 2003

The Islamic Peril, Media and Global Violence

mir — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:46:23 -0400

Karim H. Karim, School of Communication, Carleton University.

The Islamic Peril, Media and Global Violence.(Black Rose Press, 2000)

Year: 2001

Seeking Convergence in Policy and Practice: Communications in the Public Interest, Volume 2

mir — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:52:10 -0400

Edited by Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2004.

It's a post 9-11 communications world. E-mail is polluted with obnoxious spam and data-eating viruses. Governments are nervously trying to bring order to the chaos through regulation -- the very instrument that was labelled during the '90's as offensive to progress. The "information wants to be free" rally cry of early Internet libertarians has been replaced by the "information needs to be monitored" cry of the new surveillance society.

The Media of Diaspora

mir — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:59:10 -0400

Edited by Karim H. Karim, Carleton University, Canada

The Media of Diaspora examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level. This collection of essays from a wide range of different diasporic contexts is a unique contribution to the field.