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Media, Structures, and Power : The Robert E. Babe Collection / Edward A. Comor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) : 1 chart; 2 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780802095763
  • 9781442686434
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  • 302.2 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments: Robert E. Babe -- Abbreviations -- Robert Babe, Canadian Scholar -- PART ONE. Media, Information, and Critique of Economics -- Introduction to Part One -- 1. The Place of Information in Economics -- 2. Communication: Blind Spot of Western Economics -- 3. Copyright and Culture -- 4. ‘Life Is Information’: The Communication Thought of Graham Spry -- PART TWO. Communications History and Policy -- Introduction to Part Two -- 5. Media Technology and the Great Transformation of Canadian Cultural Policy -- 6. Control of Telephones: The Canadian Experience -- 7. Convergence and Divergence: Telecommunications, Old and New -- 8. An Information Revolution? -- Appendix. Vertical Integration and Productivity: Canadian Telecommunications -- PART THREE. Canadian Communication Thought -- Introduction to Part Three -- 9. Foundations of Canadian Communication Thought -- 10. Innis, Saul, Suzuki -- 11. Harold Innis and the Paradox of Press Freedom -- 12. The Communication Thought of Herbert Marshall McLuhan -- 13. Red Toryism: George Grant’s Communication Philosophy -- PART FOUR. Cultural Ecology and the Political Economy of Knowledge -- Introduction to Part Four -- 14. Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) World View -- 15. Innis, Environment, and New Media -- 16. The Political Economy of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (as Before) -- 17. Cultural Studies, Poststructuralism, Political Economy -- 18. Political Economy of Economics -- PART FIVE. Concluding Thoughts -- 19. Political Language: The Political Economy of Knowledge -- 20. Robert Babe, Personal Reflections -- Influential Writings Selected by Robert E. Babe -- Publications and Conference Papers by Robert E. Babe
Summary: Media, Structures, and Power is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada's leading communication and media studies scholar, Robert E. Babe. Spanning almost four decades of scholarship, the volume reflects the breadth of Babe's work, from media and economics to communications history and political economy.Babe famously characterized Canadian scholars' distinctive contribution to knowledge as uniquely historical, holistic, and dialectical. The essays in Media, Structures, and Power reflect this particular strength. With a clarity of vision, Babe critiques mainstream economics, Canadian government policy, and postmodernist thought in social science. 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. His interdisciplinary analyses will remain timely and influential well into the twenty-first century.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments: Robert E. Babe -- Abbreviations -- Robert Babe, Canadian Scholar -- PART ONE. Media, Information, and Critique of Economics -- Introduction to Part One -- 1. The Place of Information in Economics -- 2. Communication: Blind Spot of Western Economics -- 3. Copyright and Culture -- 4. ‘Life Is Information’: The Communication Thought of Graham Spry -- PART TWO. Communications History and Policy -- Introduction to Part Two -- 5. Media Technology and the Great Transformation of Canadian Cultural Policy -- 6. Control of Telephones: The Canadian Experience -- 7. Convergence and Divergence: Telecommunications, Old and New -- 8. An Information Revolution? -- Appendix. Vertical Integration and Productivity: Canadian Telecommunications -- PART THREE. Canadian Communication Thought -- Introduction to Part Three -- 9. Foundations of Canadian Communication Thought -- 10. Innis, Saul, Suzuki -- 11. Harold Innis and the Paradox of Press Freedom -- 12. The Communication Thought of Herbert Marshall McLuhan -- 13. Red Toryism: George Grant’s Communication Philosophy -- PART FOUR. Cultural Ecology and the Political Economy of Knowledge -- Introduction to Part Four -- 14. Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) World View -- 15. Innis, Environment, and New Media -- 16. The Political Economy of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (as Before) -- 17. Cultural Studies, Poststructuralism, Political Economy -- 18. Political Economy of Economics -- PART FIVE. Concluding Thoughts -- 19. Political Language: The Political Economy of Knowledge -- 20. Robert Babe, Personal Reflections -- Influential Writings Selected by Robert E. Babe -- Publications and Conference Papers by Robert E. Babe

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Media, Structures, and Power is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada's leading communication and media studies scholar, Robert E. Babe. Spanning almost four decades of scholarship, the volume reflects the breadth of Babe's work, from media and economics to communications history and political economy.Babe famously characterized Canadian scholars' distinctive contribution to knowledge as uniquely historical, holistic, and dialectical. The essays in Media, Structures, and Power reflect this particular strength. With a clarity of vision, Babe critiques mainstream economics, Canadian government policy, and postmodernist thought in social science. 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. His interdisciplinary analyses will remain timely and influential well into the twenty-first century.

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