RESUMENActualmente, la educación superior  se encuentra en una transformación como respuesta a una sociedad del conocimiento emergente de la globalización originada por las Tecnologías de información y Comunicación (TIC). Apoyados en estas herramientas y con el fin de lograr una…

Abstract: Anti-poverty discourses are interrogated through a case study of articles on the websites of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and The Toronto Star covering a tenant activism campaign. An autonomous media article by OCAP on direct actions to…

Abstract: This article examines the move of French-Canadian fashion magazines towards digital platforms. It focuses on a “logic of cohabitation” between the print and web versions. The magazine’s presence on different mobile devices has also been observed. The results of…

Abstract: In the past few years, discourses of war on obesity and functional foods have come to occupy a prominent place amidst the current multiplicity of practices concerned with the “problem” of food and eating. I suggest that, interestingly, both…

Abstract: This article examines newspaper coverage about closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance in Canada and considers its implications for public opinion and policymaking. The study addresses several issues, including the rise and fall of media attention to the themes that structure…

Abstract: This article argues that the reasons people adopt—or resist adopting—media capabilities on their mobile devices are largely concerned with their experience of control over technology. In particular, the ever-present, ready-to-hand nature of media on mobile devices plays a strong…

Abstract: Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conceptualizes the deployment of issue publics (Lippmann, 1993; Marres, 2005) on Facebook. We argue that issue publics on Facebook come into being through a specific set of…

Abstract: Fun food is an overlooked, but increasingly significant, category of food targeted to children in the supermarket. These supermarket products emphasize foods’ play factor, interactivity, artificiality, and general distance from “regular” foods: food is positioned as “fun” and eating…

Abstract: Between 1886 and 1895, the Sunday newspaper in U.S. cities became a cauldron for an emerging mass, popular culture—one with reach into Canada. The concurrent development of weekend newspapers in Toronto, Canada, distinguished local innovations against the unspecified, general…

Abstract: A communication rights framework is used to evaluate recent government online initiatives in Canada. Through an analysis of policy documents, government websites, user experiences, and the existing and evolving computing environment, the authors argue that government online programs fail…