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A distinctive blend of history, geography, government, economics, and biculturalism meant that communication systems and the mass media evolved differently in Canada than in either the United States or Europe. Bringing together twenty-six articles that range in subject from colonial newspapers in the early 1800s to music television in the 1980s, Communication History in Canada provides the historical foundation for a thorough contextual analysis of modern-day media and communication in this country.

From Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis to Mary Vipond and Will Straw, the authors in this volume represent a wide cross-section of disciplines, including history, communication studies, sociology, journalism, political science, and film studies. Their essays are grouped in five sections: Time, Space, Technology, and Nation, which explores the relationship between media, society, and human thought; Postal Systems and Telecommunications, which centres on the telegraph, the telephone, and computers; Print Mass Media, which describes the origins and diffusion of newspapers and magazines, with a particular emphasis on commercialization through advertising and market research; Broadcast Media, which charts the rise of radio broadcasting in the inter-war years and of television broadcasting from the 1950s through the 1980s; and Cultural Industries, which examines film and sound recording.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195419290
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 9/1/2004
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 8.90 (w) x 7.00 (h) x 0.50 (d)

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University of Western Ontario
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Table of Contents

Interpreting aboriginal cultures 4
From Empire and communications 13
Thinking about technology 18
From Understanding media : the extensions of man 22
Technological nationalism 28
Lowering 'the walls of oblivion' : the revolution in postal communications in Central Canada, 1851-1911 44
Back to the future : telecommunications, online information services, and convergence from 1840 to 1910 53
Communication and social forms : the development of the telephone, 1876-1920 66
Prophets without honour? : Canadian policy makers and the first information highway, 1969-1975 77
'The most powerful engine of the human mind' : the press and its readers 92
Public myth and private reality 104
Newspapers, advertising, and the rise of the agency, 1850-1900 114
Polling consumers : the rise of market research surveys in Canada, 1929-1941 126
'I told you so' : newspaper ownership in Canada and the Kent Commission twenty years later 139
The special role of magazines in the history of Canadian mass media and national development 144
'Mrs. Chatelaine' vs. 'Mrs. Slob' : contestants, correspondents, and the Chatelaine community in action, 1961-1969 151
'Who is to pay for broadcasting?' 168
Graham Spry and public broadcasting 177
Constructing community and consumers : Joseph R. Smallwood's Barrelman radio program 187
Public-service broadcasting as a modern project : a case study of early public-affairs television in Canada 197
'And now a word from our sponsor' 207
Rock the nation : MuchMusic, cultural policy, and the development of English-Canadian music video programming, 1979-1984 214
John Grierson and the National Film Board : the politics of wartime propaganda 228
A 'featureless' film policy : culture and the Canadian state 234
The English-Canadian recording industry since 1970 244
'Dream, comfort, memory, despair' : Canadian popular musicians and the dilemma of nationalism, 1968-1972 253
App Report of the royal commission on radio broadcasting 265
App From Report of the royal commission on national development in arts, letters, and sciences 277
App The marriage of computers and communications 281
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