Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy of News Media in the United States and CanadaLexington Books, 2005 - 344 من الصفحات What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and Canada investigate this question, exploring the effects of media concentration in democratic systems. Specifically, the scholars collected here consider, from a range of vantage points, how corporate and technological convergence in the news industry in the United States and Canada impacts journalism's expressed role as a medium of democratic communication. |
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Has a Free Press Helped to Kill Democracy? | 1 |
Mapping the Threads | 7 |
US Media Policy Then and Now | 25 |
So Much by So Few Media Policy and Ownership in Canada | 51 |
Clear Channel The Poster Child for Everything Thats Wrong with Consolidation | 77 |
Aspergate Concentration Convergence and Censorship in Canadian Media | 101 |
HyperCommercialism and the Media The Threat to Journalism and Democratic Discourse | 117 |
News Agency Dominance in International News on the Internet | 145 |
Angels of the Public Interest US Media Reform | 201 |
Journalism Education in the Posthistorical University | 223 |
The Alternative Communication Movement in Quebecs Mediascape | 249 |
Canadian Cyberactivism in the Cycle of Counterglobalization Struggle | 267 |
Turning the Tide | 291 |
Bibliography | 305 |
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Bourdieus Show and Hide Paradox Reconsidered Audience Experiences of Convergence in the Canadian Mediascape | 165 |
Reforming Media Parries and Pirouettes in the US Policy Process | 187 |
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الصفحة 340 - Jensen is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics.