On the Policy Reflex in Canadian Communication Studies

The Communication Review

Herzog

2018

Drawing on Buckingham's observation that academic research either has to become public knowledge or its originators must have a high visibility in the public realm before their research can find inclusion into policymaking processes, this article offers a variety of examples of how academics have managed to bridge the gap between media and communication policy scholarship and policymaking. Contrary to the long-standing belief that policy impact is extremely difficult and rare to achieve, we argue that junior scholars have many opportunities to have their work become part of the policymaking process through new forms of conversation, collaboration, coalition-building, changing perceptions of public knowledge, and a more conceptual understanding of impact.

Section: Woe In the Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Senior Scholars and Instrumental Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

From praxis to pragmatism: Junior scholars and policy impact

The Communication Review

Herzog

2018

“…This strength, however, also points to the central weakness of the book as a whole: the unequal attention paid to the Canadian story. Canada has long suffered from scholarly neglect of its communication industries' institutional histories (Wagman, 2010), and we can position MacDougall's book as an attempt to remedy this paucity. Nevertheless, the American story is more robust than the Canadian counterpoint, both in terms of raw pages and depth of narrative.…”

Section: The Political Economy Of Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age, by MacDougall, R.

The Communication Review

2014

We seem increasingly captivated today by the metaphor of Main Street and Wall Street and the dualities it engenders: community and capital, values and value, morals and money, the Gemeinschaft and the Gesellschaft, the country and the city, the local and the global. We seem less devoted, however, to the connections between them, both figurative and literal. That we easily transgress the boundaries between the local and the global is a hallmark of globalization and the networked society, but less investigated are the physical properties of these transgressions-how do we communicate between the country and the city, the town and the metropolis,

“…This was the impetus for Raboy's (1990) history of Canadian broadcasting and has been the topic of many excellent recent publications Killingsworth, 2005;Taylor, 2010). Despite such formidable scholarship, there is a noted paucity of academic accounts of the history of Canadian private television, particularly from the 1960s onwards (Wagman, 2010). Other scholars have also commented on the dearth of critical analyses of Canadian private broadcasting history (Attallah, 2007;Godfrey & Spencer, 2000;Urquhart & Wagman, 2006).…”

Section: Scholarship On Canadian Broadcastingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Of Logos, Owners, and Cultural Intermediaries: Defining an Elite Discourse in Re-branding Practices at Three Private Canadian Television Stations

Canadian Journal of Communication

2012

This article explores the relationship between local television stations and national networks through a careful study of station re-branding. The relationship is exploredO n August 18, 1997, viewers of CKND-TV in the prairie city of Winnipeg turned on their televisions to see the station had been re-branded, seemingly overnight, as Global Winnipeg. As then-CanWest president Jim Sward explained of the decision to re-brand all owned-and-operated stations to Global, "In a world of increasing fragmen-