Media Divides

Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada

By Marc Raboy, Jeremy Shtern
Contributions by William J. McIver, Laura J. Murray, Seán Ó Siochrú, and Leslie Regan Shade
Categories: Political Science, Canadian Political Science, Social Sciences, Technology Studies, Law & Legal Studies, Law & Society, Popular Culture, Communication & Media Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774817745, 320 pages, April 2010
Paperback : 9780774817752, 320 pages, January 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774817769, 320 pages, April 2010
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9780774845588, 320 pages, December 2016
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774859301, 320 pages, April 2010
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Table of contents

Preface

 

Part 1: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate – The State of the Art

 

Introduction / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

 

1 Histories, Contexts, and Controversies / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

 

2 Implementing Communication Rights / Seán Ó Siochrú

 

Part 2: Communication Rights in Canada – An Assessment

 

3 The Horizontal View / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

 

4 Media / Marc Raboy

 

5 Access / Leslie Regan Shade

 

6 Internet / William J. McIver Jr.

 

7 Privacy / Leslie Regan Shade

 

8 Copyright / Laura J. Murray

 

Part 3: Policy Recommendations and Alternative Frameworks

 

9 Fixing Communication Rights in Canada / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

 

10 Toward a Canadian Right to Communicate / Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern

 

Appendices

 

Notes

 

Works Cited

 

Index

A comprehensive, up-to-date account of the democratic deficits in Canada’s communications law and policy.

Description

Canada is at a critical juncture in the evolution of its communications policy. Will our information and communications technologies continue in a market-oriented, neoliberal direction, or will they preserve and strengthen broader democratic values? Media Divides offers a comprehensive, up-to-date audit of communications law and policy. Using the concept of communications rights as a framework for analysis, leading scholars not only reveal the nation’s democratic deficits in five key domains – media, access, the Internet, privacy, and copyright – they also formulate recommendations, including the establishment of a Canadian right to communicate, for the future.