Abstract:
This paper discusses key concepts
in telecommunications policy: common carriage, natural monopoly,
universal service, and price setting. Three crucial points are
made. First, in light of historical practices that created and
sustained boundaries between the media industries, contemporary
trends…

Abstract:
In addition to communication theories,
Harold Innis' examination of the modernization of higher learning
is a significant component of his later scholarship. A chief
objective of this analysis is to trace the development of Innis'
critique. It is important,…

Abstract:
Public service broadcasting's purpose, the object of much debate in South Africa, may be defined as the provision of a universal service of excellent programming while maintaining public legitimacy through an editorial independence from both the government of the…

Abstract:
In most discussions of Harold Innis'
work on communications, his contributions have been treated as
those of a general media theorist. His analyses of particular
media are commonly viewed simply as instances of his broader
account of how space-…

Abstract:
The object of this paper is to suggest
some directions for a research agenda to deal with the impact
of globalization on political identity in Canada and Quebec.
Some of the key themes in the literature on political identity,

Abstract:
Advertising is the most visible element of modern marketing and an
essential component of trading. However the activity is often accused
by its critics of being intrusive and pervasive, and neither of these
accusations can be refuted by a…

Abstract:
Research demonstrates that the press performs an important role in interpreting world events for the Canadian population (both the masses and the elites) and serves as an information conduit linking the government and the governed in the policy-formation process.…

Abstract:
Electronic cash in Canada is moving from the developmental into the implementation phase. Mondex, a smart card-based electronic money system, began its most extensive field trial worldwide on February 13, 1997 in Guelph, Ontario, foreshadowing a Canadian nationwide roll-out.…

Abstract: The terrain of higher education in Canada is changing in ways that are facilitated and encouraged by government policies directed at telelearning technologies. This study, a review of federal and provincial government policies relating to the use of telelearning…

Abstract: Are there good reasons for communications programs in Canada to experiment with distance and distributed learning technologies? This paper argues that because there are only a handful of relatively small programs in the country which are geographically dispersed, it…