Media, Structures, and Power
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Media, Structures, and Power

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Media, Structures, and Power

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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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Information

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781442686434
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments: Robert E. Babe
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Robert Babe, Canadian Scholar
  6. PART ONE. Media, Information, and Critique of Economics
  7. Introduction to Part One
  8. 1. The Place of Information in Economics
  9. 2. Communication: Blind Spot of Western Economics
  10. 3. Copyright and Culture
  11. 4. ā€˜Life Is Informationā€™: The Communication Thought of Graham Spry
  12. PART TWO. Communications History and Policy
  13. Introduction to Part Two
  14. 5. Media Technology and the Great Transformation of Canadian Cultural Policy
  15. 6. Control of Telephones: The Canadian Experience
  16. 7. Convergence and Divergence: Telecommunications, Old and New
  17. 8. An Information Revolution?
  18. Appendix. Vertical Integration and Productivity: Canadian Telecommunications
  19. PART THREE. Canadian Communication Thought
  20. Introduction to Part Three
  21. 9. Foundations of Canadian Communication Thought
  22. 10. Innis, Saul, Suzuki
  23. 11. Harold Innis and the Paradox of Press Freedom
  24. 12. The Communication Thought of Herbert Marshall McLuhan
  25. 13. Red Toryism: George Grantā€™s Communication Philosophy
  26. PART FOUR. Cultural Ecology and the Political Economy of Knowledge
  27. Introduction to Part Four
  28. 14. Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) World View
  29. 15. Innis, Environment, and New Media
  30. 16. The Political Economy of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (as Before)
  31. 17. Cultural Studies, Poststructuralism, Political Economy
  32. 18. Political Economy of Economics
  33. PART FIVE. Concluding Thoughts
  34. 19. Political Language: The Political Economy of Knowledge
  35. 20. Robert Babe, Personal Reflections
  36. Influential Writings Selected by Robert E. Babe
  37. Publications and Conference Papers by Robert E. Babe