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As the cultural industries come under increasing competitive pressure, industry organizations cannot afford to focus exclusively on creative and artistic concerns. They have to allocate their resources to projects where there is a real market demand, and must conduct…

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To appreciate the implications of recent government and regulatory decisions advancing competition in certain local network and long-distance telecommunications services, new regulatory and pricing mechanisms, and even an entirely new legal framework, it is necessary to recover the historical…

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In 1992 the agency responsible for regulating Canadian Telecommunications, the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), authorized Unitel Communications Inc. to provide a public long-distance telephone service. For the first time Bell Canada, and six of the other telephone…

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Over the last few years, academic discussions
about the state of communications in the Americas, particularly
those discussions taking place in the northern part of the continent,
sometimes slide into one or more of the following misunderstandings:
the provincialist…

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The recently developed microeconomic model of one-way international
flows in films and television programs is shown to be a specific
application of a more general model of trade in media products.
Predictions of the general model are consistent with…

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International co-production /co-venture is increasingly the mode of production used for television programs and feature films. Evidence suggests the principal benefit of this mode is that, through financial pooling, it permits the accumulation of substantial budgets. However, there are…

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The purpose of this paper is to help reclaim McLuhan's media and social / historical theories for critical theory, arguing that McLuhan employed a form of dialectical theory containing basic elements of dialectics developed by Hegel, Marx, and, later,…

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An experimental trial was conducted to determine: (1) if there was any demand for regular radio programming distributed as digital audio files over the Internet, (2) if the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was willing to distribute programming in this…

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Technological crises are predictable and inevitable, particularly in a high-risk industry such as mining. Corporations are advised to have a crisis communication plan to facilitate proactive behaviour. Such a plan presumes
a commitment to honesty, openness, and ethical behaviour.…

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The reception process of the exposition
medium cannot be dissociated from the interpersonal setting in
which the visitors are involved. This paper begins with a review
of the studies done on sociability in museums. It shows that
issues related…