Session

Summer 2024

 Term

S2

Format

SEMR

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

This course examines a number of key issues confronting Canadian media and communications policy today such as: concentration of ownership; copyright; financialization; convergence; net neutrality; spectrum allocation; and digital policy. Framed as a series of case studies, it illustrates how policy development is a lively and dynamic process as different social interests vie for ownership of, access to, and representation within, media forms. At the same time, it shows how electronic media in Canada are a unique product of the institutions and forces that shape Canadian society, and how the modes of representation they realize are structured within a dynamic web of local, regional, national and transnational relationships. It is particularly concerned with: i) the ways the process of development determines access to these systems and the ways in which the benefits they realize are both structured and allocated; and ii) set in this context, what might be the prerequisites and determinants for sound policy in each of these areas/fields.This course was previously offered as AP/COMN 4215 3.00.

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