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OverviewDigital 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David TarasPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9781442608863ISBN 10: 1442608862 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 26 January 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of Contents"Acknowledgements 1. The New Architecture of Media Power Understanding Media Shock Media Change and Canadian Public Spaces Looking Ahead 2. Identity and Citizenship in Canada.ca The Unlikely Country The Public Participation Scorecard Turbulent Times: the Effects of Economic and Media Change 3. The Ownership Juggernaut The Powers That Be The Power of the Powerful Corporate Rules: Values, Ideology, and the News Democracy Insurance 4. Me-media and Political Connectedness (or Not): Cable, Blogs, and YouTube The New Debate about Media Effects The Cable Explosion The Blog Hierarchy YouTube and Video Politics The Politics of Me-media 5. Connecting and Disconnecting on the Social Media Frontier Is Facebook Your Friend? ""Put Down Twitter and Slowly Back Away?"" Welcome to the New World 6. Falling Stars: The Future of Newspapers and Conventional Broadcasting ""Every Newspaper Reader That Dies Leaves No Heir"" The Great Canadian Television Crisis Music and Radio: Hits and Misses Are the Traditional Media Doomed to Extinction? 7. The Ever-shrinking World of Public Broadcasting Triple Jeopardy: Budget Cuts, Hockey Night in Canada, and Big TV Re-imagining the CBC 8. Are Journalists and Politicians Abandoning the Public? Blind Spots, Cutbacks, and the Decline of Political Reporting Totally Scripted: Avoid, Bypass, and Stick to Your Message Nowhere to Hide: The Value and Politics of Debates The Last Disconnect 9. Finding Citizenship in the Digital Mosaic It's Time to Do Better Bibliography Index"ReviewsIn Digital Mosaic, David Taras achieves what no one else has even tried: he makes coherent sense of the massive and ongoing upheavals in journalism and Canada's media industries, the rise of social media, and how all these changes have fractured longstanding links to citizenship, culture, privacy, national identity, public policy, and democracy. Taras masterfully explains how it has all happened, raises concerns about the directions these changes are leading us in, and calls on Canadians and their governments to be active and creative in their responses. It's cliche to say it should be required reading for all, but it should be. - Christopher Waddell, Carleton University In Digital Mosaic, David Taras achieves what no one else has even tried: he makes coherent sense of the massive and ongoing upheavals in journalism and Canada's media industries, the rise of social media, and how all these changes have fractured longstanding links to citizenship, culture, privacy, national identity, public policy, and democracy. Taras masterfully explains how it has all happened, raises concerns about the directions these changes are leading us in, and calls on Canadians and their governments to be active and creative in their responses. It's clich� to say it should be required reading for all, but it should be.--Christopher Waddell, Carleton University Rich in detail and written in an engaging style, Digital Mosaic is a timely and thoroughly researched look at what changes in the local, national, and global mediascape mean for Canadians.--Patrick McCurdy, University of Ottawa David Taras provides his readers with a deeply researched account of how changes, evolutions, and revolutions in communication practices impact our daily lives and citizenship, for better or for worse. Drawing on the Canadian experience, and often comparing it with other national contexts, Digital Mosaic is a thought-provoking essay that anyone interested in political communication should read.--Thierry Giasson, Universite Laval Author InformationDavid Taras is a professor and Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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