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Social Science Media Studies

Digital Mosaic

Media, Power, and Identity in Canada

by (author) David Taras

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2015
Category
Media Studies, Social Aspects, Canadian, Social Policy

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442608894
    Publish Date
    Jan 2015
    List Price
    $28.95

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    ISBN
    9781442608863
    Publish Date
    Jan 2015
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    $45.95

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    ISBN
    9781442608870
    Publish Date
    Jan 2015
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    $83.00

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Description

Digital Media has transformed the way Canadians socialize and interact, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire knowledge. Traditional media, including newspapers and conventional TV networks, remain the primary link to Canada's political sphere but are under concerted attack. YouTube, blogs, online broadcasting, Facebook, and Twitter have opened new and exciting avenues of expression but offer little of the same "nation-building glue" as traditional media. Consequently, Canada is experiencing a number of overlapping crises simultaneously: a crisis in news and journalism, threats to the survival of the media system as a whole, and a decline in citizen engagement.

In Digital Mosaic, David Taras both embraces and challenges new media by arguing that these coinciding crises bring exciting opportunities as well as considerable dangers to democratic life and citizen engagement in Canada.

About the author

David Taras holds the Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University. He is the author of several books, including The Newsmakers: The Media's Influence on Canadian Politics (1990) and Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media (2001), and co-author of Last Word: Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada (2005).

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