Telecommunications in Canada

Babe, Robert E.

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“…In addition, the favouring of American items, particularly on topics of politics, celebrities, and human interest, augments the long-standing contention between U.S. and Canadian culture. Despite a century-long history of protectionist policies seeking to define and reinforce Canadian identity, American content has steadily increased alongside the commercialization of Canadian broadcasting (Babe, 1990;Raboy, 1990;Taras, 2001), reflected here in the higher percentage of U.S. news on CTV over CBC. Indeed, much of the political economic environment that produces Canadian news is founded on attempts to limit American cultural and economic influence-a challenge positioned in the 1930s as a choice between "the state" and "the United States" (Graham, quoted in Belanger, 2008, p. 118).…”

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Elections, Wars, and Protests? A Longitudinal Look at Foreign News on Canadian Television

Goodrum¹,

Godo²

2021

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This study reports on the Canadian data from a recent international content analysis of broadcast news in 18 countries. With a mind to Robert A. Hackett’s longitudinal analysis of foreign news on CBC and CTV in 1989, the current study addresses questions of foreign news prominence, geographic distribution, topic coverage, and variation between networks, noting differences and similarities in the content of foreign news in light of shifting cultural, political, and economic environments; news production processes; and communication technologies. This analysis provides an update to Hackett’s seminal work, painting a picture of the Canadian foreign news landscape two decades later.

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Elections, Wars, and Protests? A Longitudinal Look at Foreign News on Canadian Television

Goodrum¹,

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2021

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Elections, Wars, and Protests? A Longitudinal Look at Foreign News on Canadian Television

Goodrum

2011

Canadian Journal of Communication

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“…Contrary to criticisms of CPE dating back to the base-superstructure theory of Marx, there is ample conceptual space for focusing on the micro-level practices, preferences and behaviours of individual actors within the broad conceptualization of CPE. And while this is true, CPE has tended, through its typical areas of focus and methodologies, to prioritize and foreground the analysis of structures and institutions over individuals and practices (see for example the work of Babe, 1990;McChesney, 2008;Raboy, 1990;Schiller, 1999;Smythe, 1981). While the progression of thought, and indeed the field of CPE itself, made as a result of these various treatise cannot be emphasized enough, there is much to be learned from the analysis of the micro-level domain, when examined and placed in its wider context.…”

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Telling our stories on the web: Canadian English-language web series and the production of culture online

Zboralska¹

2021

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This dissertation presents the first critical scholarly analysis of the Canadian English-language scripted web series industry, its cultural practices, industrial dynamics and texts. Through in-depth interviews with 48 individuals active in the production of Canadian online scripted content, participant observation, and a benchmark quantitative analysis of gender and race in key creative roles in 175 seasons of Canadian web series, the dissertation investigates the web as an alternative space for Canadian scripted audiovisual content, and the actors and forces that have shaped and are shaping its development, including its emergent patterns of inclusion. By developing a novel theoretical framework that combines the critical political economy of communication with entrepreneurship studies, the dissertation is able to mediate effectively between structure and agency to reveal how Canadian web series creators are interpreting, internalizing and resisting larger institutional dynamics and discourses in their cultural practices and texts. Through their entrepreneuring, Canadian web creators are reacting to a variety of rigidities within the contextual dimensions in which they are embedded, including the absence of meaningful opportunities to practice their crafts, the persistence of networks of exclusion, and inaccurate or missing on-screen representations of themselves or others in mainstream media. Through their work, they desire to achieve freedom from these constraints. The challenge of disrupting the status quo is then revealed through an examination of the domestic and extra-national structural factors that act as impediments to their agency. The dissertation problematizes ideas of participation and access on the web, and introduces new conceptual terminology through the Participatory Culture Paradox, to encapsulate the contradictory set of relations that on the one hand, enables creators’ activities in the online space, and at the same time, constrains their capacity to find audiences and monetize their work. The findings here demonstrate that as much as internet-based distribution has expanded opportunities for participation for regular users, who you are, and where you are based, continue to be salient mediators of both participation and success in the development of professional scripted screen careers in the digital age. The dissertation culminates in actionable priorities for Canadian policy that aim at change.

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Telecommunications in Canada

Cited by 73 publications

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Elections, Wars, and Protests? A Longitudinal Look at Foreign News on Canadian Television

Elections, Wars, and Protests? A Longitudinal Look at Foreign News on Canadian Television

Elections, Wars, and Protests? A Longitudinal Look at Foreign News on Canadian Television

Telling our stories on the web: Canadian English-language web series and the production of culture online

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