The work of Marshall McLuhan routinely crosses and problematizes boundaries of all sorts. Thinking about his work in terms of knowledge economies, along with their attendant protocols, circulations, and distributions, offers a way to contextualize the many contradictory claims about…

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The increased volume and complexity of information available via the Internet and other networked information and communications systems (ICTs) have heightened the need for more efficient and effective ways of searching on-line resources. Technologies involving automated and human-operated software…

Abstract: The Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) began to experiment with online technologies in 1994, in part as a response to the increasing commodification of scholarship by commercial academic publishers. This article reviews and reflects on the CJC’s online publishing…

ABSTRACT In what follows I offer an anecdotal engagement with the Fine Arts PhD at a moment when it is just emerging in North America. I argue that doctoral activities that cross theory/practice lines, at their best, offer a unique…

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This paper examines claims about
``record news coverage'' made by 24-hour television news services.
It is a critical assessment of the type of social knowledge
``record broadcasting'' provides its public.


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Dans cet exposé, l'auteur analyse un…

Abstract: This article counters and complicates decontextualized, celebratory accounts of queer subjects and cyberspace. The authors explore the significance of communicative media for queer women, with a particular focus on the negotiation of complex identifications, communities, social networks, and knowledge…

Abstract: Tracing the movement of new medical information from the laboratory to individual consumers is a challenge to communications theorists and social scientists alike. This article adopts the position of the social study of medicine, which takes into account the…

Abstract: In The Vision Machine (1994) Paul Virilio uses powerful imagery to warn us about the consequences of our increasing dependence on “vision machines.” With little use, he claims that our sense organs will atrophy and we will degenerate into…

Abstract: Grounded in rhetorical theory, this paper examines the “Oka crisis” and suggests that the conflict created a place of non-identification where assumptions about the superiority of Canadian (or Québecois) values and norms became unsettled. It argues that by embodying…

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