Abstract:
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 paper analyzes the reasons for
the marginalization of feminist thought in the interdiscipline
of communication studies and elucidates the potential contributions
of this approach to social communication theorizing.


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Cet article fait l'analyse des causes
de…

In today’s world, the European Union is searching for a delicate balance between linguistic integration and diversity. Thanks to international knowledge transmission and exchange as well as co-operation and mobility beyond national boundaries, English has now become the preferred option…

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The author examined gendered evaluation
responses to experiential learning in terms of how students rated
the overall experience, responded to experiential learning, and
responded to experiential learning facilitators. An analysis
of evaluation forms indicated no difference in the…

Abstract:
Canada's success as a modern, knowledge-based
economy depends on a strong national information infrastructure
that is responsive to the needs of the country's innovation system
for industrial development. The
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)
at the…

Abstract:
Located in the
context of discussion in urban British Columbia as to whether
contemporary First Nations art should properly be referred to
as ``art'' in the Western sense or whether it is, rather, the repository
and communicator of culturally…

Abstract:
There is a certain parallel between arguments
about the decline of the public sphere and the decline of the
university today. Both institutions are said to be increasingly
fragmented and politicized. In this paper, I mobilize Nancy Fraser's
alternative…

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Recently, Canadian university campuses
have begun to display signs of increasing corporate influence
in their affairs. In spite of the recent appearance of these
signs, the foundation was laid in the early 1980s for this increasing
corporate influence through…

Abstract: This article reviews the contemporary shift to active audience research among European and other media scholars, following the influential work of those such as Ien Ang and David Morley. It proceeds to examine the comparatively underdeveloped state of Canadian…

Abstract: In this paper, I examine the impact of the media on social change in a new light by investigating the effect of the circulation of information on various groups of people in which society has a keen interest. I…