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Media, Structures, and Power

The Robert E. Babe Collection
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2011

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Containing introductions and contributions by other prominent scholars, this volume situates Babe's work within contemporary scholarship and underscores the extent to which he is one of Canada's most prescient thinkers.

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Comor Edward A. :

Edward Comor is a professor and faculty scholar in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

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Genevieve A. Bonin:

‘A collection of such a rich breadth of topics is a blessing for any new or seasoned scholar.’

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

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    Acknowledgments: Robert E. Babe

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    Abbreviations

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    Robert Babe, Canadian Scholar

    1
    Edward A. Comor
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  • PART ONE. Media, Information, and Critique of Economics
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    Introduction to Part One

    17
    Sandra Braman
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    1. The Place of Information in Economics

    22
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    2. Communication: Blind Spot of Western Economics

    43
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    3. Copyright and Culture

    60
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    4. ‘Life Is Information’: The Communication Thought of Graham Spry

    66
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  • PART TWO. Communications History and Policy
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    Introduction to Part Two

    81
    Robin Mansell
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    5. Media Technology and the Great Transformation of Canadian Cultural Policy

    91
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    6. Control of Telephones: The Canadian Experience

    119
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    7. Convergence and Divergence: Telecommunications, Old and New

    134
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    8. An Information Revolution?

    152
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    Appendix. Vertical Integration and Productivity: Canadian Telecommunications

    164
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  • PART THREE. Canadian Communication Thought
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    Introduction to Part Three

    185
    Paul Heyer
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    9. Foundations of Canadian Communication Thought

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    10. Innis, Saul, Suzuki

    217
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    11. Harold Innis and the Paradox of Press Freedom

    227
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    12. The Communication Thought of Herbert Marshall McLuhan

    245
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    13. Red Toryism: George Grant’s Communication Philosophy

    286
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  • PART FOUR. Cultural Ecology and the Political Economy of Knowledge
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    Introduction to Part Four

    295
    Hanno Hardt
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    14. Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) World View

    303
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    15. Innis, Environment, and New Media

    314
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    16. The Political Economy of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (as Before)

    336
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    17. Cultural Studies, Poststructuralism, Political Economy

    360
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    18. Political Economy of Economics

    388
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  • PART FIVE. Concluding Thoughts
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    19. Political Language: The Political Economy of Knowledge

    397
    Warren J. Samuels
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    20. Robert Babe, Personal Reflections

    417
    James Winter
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    Influential Writings Selected by Robert E. Babe

    421
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    Publications and Conference Papers by Robert E. Babe

    427
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9781442686434
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