Title: Mass Communication in Canada: Networks, Culture, Technology, Audiences Gasher, Mike; Skinner, David and Lorimer, Rowland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195433831
ISBN 13: 9780195433838
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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The leader in Canadian communication studies for twenty-five years, this highly-anticipated new edition introduces the history, theories, and basic concepts of traditional media, while integrating the latest information on digitization and various types of new media. The authors explore a wide range of exciting topics including media culture and politics, media content, audiences, law and policy, the structure and role of media ownership, journalists as content producers, the effects of media convergence, and globalization. With a stunning new full-colour design, a reorganized chapter on communication policy, and extensive updates throughout, the seventh edition of Mass Communication in Canada is essential reading for anyone studying this constantly evolving field.

About the Author

Mike Gasher is professor of the Department of Journalism at Concordia University. For two decades he worked as a journalist in Ontario and British Columbia. He is currently engaged with a project called 'The Geography of News'. This project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and examines the circulation of international news stories on the internet. He is also the co-editor of Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy of News in the United States and Canada (Lexington Books, 2005). David Skinner is associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Culture at York University. He was the founding chair of the journalism program at Thompson Rivers University. His research interests include the political economy of communication, media and communications policy, alternative and community media, media democracy. He is also the co-editor of Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy of News in the United States and Canada (Lexington Books, 2005). Rowland Lorimer is professor in the School of Communications and director of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1968 and since then has been a prolific author in the field, particularly in scholarly venues.

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