Books written by David Taras
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End of the CBC
3 Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction (New York: Penguin, 2017), 34. 4 Ibid., 243. 5 Josef Adalian, “Almost 500 Scripted Shows Aired in 2018, but We Still Haven't Hit Peak TV,” Vulture.com, ...
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Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media
Hollinger also own a large swath of small-town American papers. The concern is not only that there is too much power in the hands of a single individual but that Conrad Black is hardly an innocuous investor with only a fleeting and ...
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Digital Mosaic: Media, Power, and Identity in Canada
Companies such as CanWest Global, Hollinger newspapers, Astral, CHUM, and Western International Communication (WIC), all of which were major players in the 1990s and early 2000s, no longer exist today. The financial collapse of CanWest ...
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Last Word: Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada
Stephen Bindman, a former reporter who now works for the Department of Justice, also believes that more reporting on the justices and their backgrounds would be beneficial. But he believes care must be taken. According to Bindman (2001) ...
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Making a Difference: A Comparative View of the Role of the Internet in Election Politics
This book is a cross-national analysis of the role of the Internet in elections. It examines the role of context in shaping candidate and party usage of the Internet in democratic electoral systems.
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The Last Word: Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada
Columnists such as Lome Gunter, Ted Byfield, and David Frum, together with guest columnists such as Ted Morton and Dave Rutherford, emphasized that "Alberta has the power to reverse [the] Vriend ruling" (Gunter 1998).
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Justices and Journalists: The Global Perspective
A comparative approach to judicial communication offering perspectives on the relationship between national supreme courts and the media covering them.
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How Canadians Communicate
Toronto: Penguin/McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Lin, Zhengxi, Janice Yates, ... 2001. "Skill and Employment Effects of Computer Based Technologies." Canadian Policy Research Networks, Backgrounder. McNally, David. 2000.
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Justices and Journalists
A comparative approach to judicial communication offering perspectives on the relationship between national supreme courts and the media covering them.
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How Canadians Communicate V: Sports
Writing from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this collection set out to explore the impact of the media on our reception of, and attitudes toward, sports—to unpack the meanings that sports have for us as citizens and ...
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How Canadians Communicate IV: Media and Politics
The implications of this new political style and its impact on political discourse are issues vigorously debated in this new volume of How Canadians Communicate, as is the question on every politician's mind: How can we draw a generation of ...
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A Passion for Identity: Canadian Studies for the 21st Century
Passion for Identity provides an excellent collection of readings which are ideally suited for an introductory course in Canadian studies. The pieces are engaging, readable and highly relevant to the...
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Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media
This book argues that unless action is taken these changes will narrow our access to the information we need as citizens and damage our capacity to communicate with each other and reflect on ourselves as a community.
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Power Betrayal Canadian Media
Power Betrayal Canadian Media
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How Canadians Communicate II: Media, Globalization, and Identity
The contributors to this first volume of How Canadians communicate focus on the question what does Canadian popular culture have to say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian national identity?
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The End of the CBC?
cbc.ca, 13 May 2017. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/ cable-sports-tv-cord-cutting-1.4112895. Stursberg, Richard. ... The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age. ... Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media.
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Digital Mosaic: Media, Power, and Identity in Canada
The digital world has impacted the way Canadians socialize and interact with others, teach and learn, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire knowledge.
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Power Shift? Political Leadership and Social Media: Case Studies in Political Communication
This raises the question of whether this is causing a power shift in the relationship between leaders and followers. Together the chapters in this book suggest new rules of engagement that leaders ignore at their peril.
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A Passion for Identity: An Introduction to Canadian Studies
A Passion for Identity: An Introduction to Canadian Studies
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A Passion for Identity: An Introduction to Canadian Studies
A Passion for Identity: An Introduction to Canadian Studies