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This article examines the legal and normative foundations of media content regulation in the bord... more This article examines the legal and normative foundations of media content regulation in the borderless networked society. We explore the extent to which internet undertakings should be subject to state regulation, in light of Canada’s ongoing debates and legislative reform. We bring a cross-disciplinary perspective (from the subject fields of law; communications studies, in particular McLuhan’s now classic probes; international relations; and technology studies) to enable both policy and language analysis. We apply the concept of sovereignty to states (national cultural and digital sovereignty), media platforms (transnational sovereignty), and citizens (autonomy and personal data sovereignty) to examine the competing dynamics and interests that need to be considered and mediated. While there is growing awareness of the tensions between state and transnational media platform powers, the relationship between media content regulation and the collection of viewers’ personal data is rel...
Explorations in Media Ecology
Explorations in Media Ecology
Harlot a Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion, Apr 4, 2011
Feminist Media Studies, 2013
In Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women's Rights in Canada, communications historian Barbara M... more In Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women's Rights in Canada, communications historian Barbara M. Freeman takes a wide-reaching view of journalism to include all forms of media, including print, broadcast, public relations, film, as well as alternative press and even public relations. The book is a collection of essays that examine the role of women journalist activists over 130 years. Seven snapshots are presented in chronological order, tracing how female journalists have been able to use their position as media workers to advance the women's movement. Freeman challenges readers to adopt a wide definition of "journalist" as well as byline "to include women who were not news reporters or who worked outside the mainstream media" (p. 1). The book is positioned as "bio-critical" and interdisciplinary. Freeman examines the conditions and times in which the women worked and, examining their texts "so that their intentions can be understood," she also "investigates the gendered media language and images of their social milieu" (p. 2). To examine these varied time periods and historical records, Freeman relies on archival material, as well as oral history interviews. Perhaps because of her training as an historian and journalist, Freeman tends to emphasize the biography and chain of events rather than provide a deep reading of the texts of the media workers she highlights. This could, in part, be due to the lack of material to work with, most notably in Chapter 4 regarding the first female executive at CBC, Elizabeth Long, where texts and archival material are sparse. Instead of offering an analysis of the content that was presented on CBC's women's programming at the time, Freeman focuses on Long's management skills and interpersonal relationships. While interesting, it is somewhat unsatisfying, and it would have been more germane to see examples of what Freeman describes as Long's ability to "subversively introduced 'equal rights' talks along with the household hints offered to the female listeners of CBC national radio from 1938 to 1956" (p. 10). Later chapters focus more on interviews with the subjects and offer the context for their work and political aspirations. The chapter on aboriginal filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides perhaps the best discourse analysis. The main strength of the work is Freeman's ability to tell the story of these very different women. Well written with lively prose, the book brings to life the time and circumstance of each of the women featured. Where it falls short is to answer broader questions of how women journalists have made a difference in Canada or in media work itself. As much of the book focuses on women in alternative media or public relations, it does not inform the reader much about the broader successes that women have achieved and how these came to pass. Due to the historical nature of the first half of the book, it is unclear what influence the publications had in the popular mind. Certainly the first two chapters that focus on early commercial newspapers give some sense that these women's voices could have been important in the struggle for equality;
TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
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Narrative inquiry has become a growing part of scholarly work across disciplines and a common par... more Narrative inquiry has become a growing part of scholarly work across disciplines and a common part of student writing. I begin this article by proposing that undergraduate students can benefit from a course that teaches them about narrative, a mode of knowing many theorists claim is unique to humans and basic to our understanding. Students who understand the intersections of epistemology and narrative are more likely to avoid the intellectual pratfalls of writing narratives that are static, simple or entirely self-focused. The remainder of the article proposes texts and themes to constitute a course focused on narrative thinking and writing. I suggest that the major topics to take up are the role of narrative in human history, in contemporary scholarship, and in feminist and postmodern theory. Issues of interest include the function of narrative as evidence, the role of the personal and of experience in knowledge building according to feminist and postmodern theorizing, the ethical responsibility of narrative writers and the interactive engagement of readers. Students who make connections amongst examples, theory and personal experience not only gain a better understanding of narrative scholarship but are also more likely to enact its authentic practice.
Laws
This article examines the legal and normative foundations of media content regulation in the bord... more This article examines the legal and normative foundations of media content regulation in the borderless networked society. We explore the extent to which internet undertakings should be subject to state regulation, in light of Canada’s ongoing debates and legislative reform. We bring a cross-disciplinary perspective (from the subject fields of law; communications studies, in particular McLuhan’s now classic probes; international relations; and technology studies) to enable both policy and language analysis. We apply the concept of sovereignty to states (national cultural and digital sovereignty), media platforms (transnational sovereignty), and citizens (autonomy and personal data sovereignty) to examine the competing dynamics and interests that need to be considered and mediated. While there is growing awareness of the tensions between state and transnational media platform powers, the relationship between media content regulation and the collection of viewers’ personal data is rel...
Explorations in Media Ecology
Explorations in Media Ecology
Harlot a Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion, Apr 4, 2011
Feminist Media Studies, 2013
In Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women's Rights in Canada, communications historian Barbara M... more In Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women's Rights in Canada, communications historian Barbara M. Freeman takes a wide-reaching view of journalism to include all forms of media, including print, broadcast, public relations, film, as well as alternative press and even public relations. The book is a collection of essays that examine the role of women journalist activists over 130 years. Seven snapshots are presented in chronological order, tracing how female journalists have been able to use their position as media workers to advance the women's movement. Freeman challenges readers to adopt a wide definition of "journalist" as well as byline "to include women who were not news reporters or who worked outside the mainstream media" (p. 1). The book is positioned as "bio-critical" and interdisciplinary. Freeman examines the conditions and times in which the women worked and, examining their texts "so that their intentions can be understood," she also "investigates the gendered media language and images of their social milieu" (p. 2). To examine these varied time periods and historical records, Freeman relies on archival material, as well as oral history interviews. Perhaps because of her training as an historian and journalist, Freeman tends to emphasize the biography and chain of events rather than provide a deep reading of the texts of the media workers she highlights. This could, in part, be due to the lack of material to work with, most notably in Chapter 4 regarding the first female executive at CBC, Elizabeth Long, where texts and archival material are sparse. Instead of offering an analysis of the content that was presented on CBC's women's programming at the time, Freeman focuses on Long's management skills and interpersonal relationships. While interesting, it is somewhat unsatisfying, and it would have been more germane to see examples of what Freeman describes as Long's ability to "subversively introduced 'equal rights' talks along with the household hints offered to the female listeners of CBC national radio from 1938 to 1956" (p. 10). Later chapters focus more on interviews with the subjects and offer the context for their work and political aspirations. The chapter on aboriginal filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides perhaps the best discourse analysis. The main strength of the work is Freeman's ability to tell the story of these very different women. Well written with lively prose, the book brings to life the time and circumstance of each of the women featured. Where it falls short is to answer broader questions of how women journalists have made a difference in Canada or in media work itself. As much of the book focuses on women in alternative media or public relations, it does not inform the reader much about the broader successes that women have achieved and how these came to pass. Due to the historical nature of the first half of the book, it is unclear what influence the publications had in the popular mind. Certainly the first two chapters that focus on early commercial newspapers give some sense that these women's voices could have been important in the struggle for equality;
TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
ufv.ca
Narrative inquiry has become a growing part of scholarly work across disciplines and a common par... more Narrative inquiry has become a growing part of scholarly work across disciplines and a common part of student writing. I begin this article by proposing that undergraduate students can benefit from a course that teaches them about narrative, a mode of knowing many theorists claim is unique to humans and basic to our understanding. Students who understand the intersections of epistemology and narrative are more likely to avoid the intellectual pratfalls of writing narratives that are static, simple or entirely self-focused. The remainder of the article proposes texts and themes to constitute a course focused on narrative thinking and writing. I suggest that the major topics to take up are the role of narrative in human history, in contemporary scholarship, and in feminist and postmodern theory. Issues of interest include the function of narrative as evidence, the role of the personal and of experience in knowledge building according to feminist and postmodern theorizing, the ethical responsibility of narrative writers and the interactive engagement of readers. Students who make connections amongst examples, theory and personal experience not only gain a better understanding of narrative scholarship but are also more likely to enact its authentic practice.