Robert E Babe
Biographic Data
| ID | 459048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Babe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Babe |
| SIGNATURE | BABE R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Innis's Great Transformation
Harold Innis inaugurated his research into Canadian economic history (staples studies) to countervail the purportedly universalist claims of mainstream economics; he believed the mainstream “justified” exploitation of the developing world by the wealthiest countries. Conversely, he sought out universalist principles in his media/communication work in order to countervail omnipresent misunderstanding in the world; he hoped to establish thereby a c…
Innis’ Great Transformation
Harold Innis inaugurated his research into Canadian economic history (staples studies) to countervail the purportedly universalist claims of mainstream economics; he believed the mainstream “justified” exploitation of the developing world by the wealthiest countries. Conversely, he sought out universalist principles in his media/communication work in order to countervail omnipresent misunderstanding in the world; he hoped to establish thereby a c…
Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky Meet Harold Innis
Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky Meet Harold Innis is an original, critical, in-depth analysis of the media and communication thought of Canada's most highly acclaimed scholar, Harold Adams Innis. Even in Canada, however, Innis's writings until now have been only partially cited and interpreted: Innis is usually stereotyped as being merely an economic historian fixated on previous civilizations, whereas in fact he was an astute analyst whose main …
Culture of Ecology
No Time
Harold Innis
Canadian Communication Thought
Canada has a rich heritage of English-language communication thought. For the first time .Canadian Communication Thought. assembles much of this erudition by introducing and examining the writings of ten foundational scholars: Graham Spry, Harold Innis, John Grierson, Dallas Smythe, C.B. Macpherson, Irene Spry, George Grant, Gertrude Robinson, Northrop Frye, and Marshall McLuhan. The author compares and critiques the thought of these ten sages, r…
Foundations of Canadian Communication Thought
Reviewing the communication writings of five English-language theorists, namely, H. A. Innis, George Grant, Northrop Frye, C. B. Macpherson, and Marshall McLuhan, the article proposes that, foundationally, Canadian communication thought is dialectical, critical, holistic, ontological, oriented to political economy, and concerns mediation and dynamic change. Running through the thought of these five theorists is some variation of the basic time-sp…
An Ecology of Communication
Red Toryism
Paeans to Dallas Smythe
Journal Article Paeans to Dallas Smythe Get access Robert E. Babe Robert E. Babe 1University of Ottawa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 1, March 1996, Pages 179–182, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb01468.x Published: 07 February 2006
Economics and Information
Mainstream or neoclassical economics assumes a commodity-only status for information, even though information is indivisible, subjective, shared, and intangible, making information quite ill-suited for commodity treatment. Likewise, orthodox economics posits communication as comprising merely acts of commodity exchange, thereby ignoring gift relations, dialogic interactions, the cumulative and transformative properties of all informational interc…
Telecommunications in Canada
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Telecommunications in Canada
This study provides Canada's first comprehensive, integrated treatment of the emergence and development of key communication sectors: telegraph telephones, cable TV, broadcasting, communication satellites, and electronic publishing. By focusing on real institutions, actual (and frequently predatory) business practices, and law and regulatory policies, in both historical and contemporary perspectives, Babe helps demystify current communication iss…
Control of Telephones
In popular literature on new media (Toffler, 1981; Naisbitt, 1984), in academic literature on the Information Revolution (Bell, 1979; Porat, 1978; Irwin, 1984), and most significantly in policy documents from the Government of Canada, a recurring theme is evident: technological imperative, the doctrine maintaining that technology's march is largely inevitable, autonomous, foreordained (Winner, 1977). In Canada, foremost among proselytizers of the…
The Public Eye
Canadian Television Broadcasting Structure, Performance and Regulation
Regulation of private television broadcasting by the Canadian Radio‐Television Commission
The regulation of private television broadcasting in Canada has centred on two principles: first, the protection and attempted aggrandizement of revenues flowing to private broadcasters in order that indigenous programming could be undertaken; and secondly, the imposition of Canadian content quotas in an attempt to ensure that such programming is, in fact, undertaken. The article contends that the Canadian Radio‐Television Commission has aggressi…
Public and private regulation of cable television
Cable television has the potential of developing into a two‐way, wideband telecommunications distribution system offering a much larger range of services than are at present available from either the cable television systems or the telephone companies. Such development has to date been blocked by the restrictive practices of the telephone companies who see cable television as a potential competitor and by the fragmentation of jurisdiction between…
Canadian Communication Thought
Canada has a rich heritage of English-language communication thought. For the first time .Canadian Communication Thought. assembles much of this erudition by introducing and examining the writings of ten foundational scholars: Graham Spry, Harold Innis, John Grierson, Dallas Smythe, C.B. Macpherson, Irene Spry, George Grant, Gertrude Robinson, Northrop Frye, and Marshall McLuhan. The author compares and critiques the thought of these ten sages, r…
Telecommunications in Canada
This study provides Canada's first comprehensive, integrated treatment of the emergence and development of key communication sectors: telegraph telephones, cable TV, broadcasting, communication satellites, and electronic publishing. By focusing on real institutions, actual (and frequently predatory) business practices, and law and regulatory policies, in both historical and contemporary perspectives, Babe helps demystify current communication iss…
Canadian Television Broadcasting Structure, Performance and Regulation
Regulation of private television broadcasting by the Canadian Radio‐Television Commission
The regulation of private television broadcasting in Canada has centred on two principles: first, the protection and attempted aggrandizement of revenues flowing to private broadcasters in order that indigenous programming could be undertaken; and secondly, the imposition of Canadian content quotas in an attempt to ensure that such programming is, in fact, undertaken. The article contends that the Canadian Radio‐Television Commission has aggressi…
Public and private regulation of cable television
Cable television has the potential of developing into a two‐way, wideband telecommunications distribution system offering a much larger range of services than are at present available from either the cable television systems or the telephone companies. Such development has to date been blocked by the restrictive practices of the telephone companies who see cable television as a potential competitor and by the fragmentation of jurisdiction between…
Public and private regulation of cable television
Cable television has the potential of developing into a two‐way, wideband telecommunications distribution system offering a much larger range of services than are at present available from either the cable television systems or the telephone companies. Such development has to date been blocked by the restrictive practices of the telephone companies who see cable television as a potential competitor and by the fragmentation of jurisdiction between…
Regulation of private television broadcasting by the Canadian Radio‐Television Commission
The regulation of private television broadcasting in Canada has centred on two principles: first, the protection and attempted aggrandizement of revenues flowing to private broadcasters in order that indigenous programming could be undertaken; and secondly, the imposition of Canadian content quotas in an attempt to ensure that such programming is, in fact, undertaken. The article contends that the Canadian Radio‐Television Commission has aggressi…
The Public Eye
Canadian Television Broadcasting Structure, Performance and Regulation
Control of Telephones
In popular literature on new media (Toffler, 1981; Naisbitt, 1984), in academic literature on the Information Revolution (Bell, 1979; Porat, 1978; Irwin, 1984), and most significantly in policy documents from the Government of Canada, a recurring theme is evident: technological imperative, the doctrine maintaining that technology's march is largely inevitable, autonomous, foreordained (Winner, 1977). In Canada, foremost among proselytizers of the…
Telecommunications in Canada
This study provides Canada's first comprehensive, integrated treatment of the emergence and development of key communication sectors: telegraph telephones, cable TV, broadcasting, communication satellites, and electronic publishing. By focusing on real institutions, actual (and frequently predatory) business practices, and law and regulatory policies, in both historical and contemporary perspectives, Babe helps demystify current communication iss…
Telecommunications in Canada
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Paeans to Dallas Smythe
Journal Article Paeans to Dallas Smythe Get access Robert E. Babe Robert E. Babe 1University of Ottawa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 1, March 1996, Pages 179–182, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb01468.x Published: 07 February 2006
Economics and Information
Mainstream or neoclassical economics assumes a commodity-only status for information, even though information is indivisible, subjective, shared, and intangible, making information quite ill-suited for commodity treatment. Likewise, orthodox economics posits communication as comprising merely acts of commodity exchange, thereby ignoring gift relations, dialogic interactions, the cumulative and transformative properties of all informational interc…
Red Toryism
An Ecology of Communication
Foundations of Canadian Communication Thought
Reviewing the communication writings of five English-language theorists, namely, H. A. Innis, George Grant, Northrop Frye, C. B. Macpherson, and Marshall McLuhan, the article proposes that, foundationally, Canadian communication thought is dialectical, critical, holistic, ontological, oriented to political economy, and concerns mediation and dynamic change. Running through the thought of these five theorists is some variation of the basic time-sp…
Canadian Communication Thought
Canada has a rich heritage of English-language communication thought. For the first time .Canadian Communication Thought. assembles much of this erudition by introducing and examining the writings of ten foundational scholars: Graham Spry, Harold Innis, John Grierson, Dallas Smythe, C.B. Macpherson, Irene Spry, George Grant, Gertrude Robinson, Northrop Frye, and Marshall McLuhan. The author compares and critiques the thought of these ten sages, r…
Harold Innis
Culture of Ecology
No Time
Innis's Great Transformation
Harold Innis inaugurated his research into Canadian economic history (staples studies) to countervail the purportedly universalist claims of mainstream economics; he believed the mainstream “justified” exploitation of the developing world by the wealthiest countries. Conversely, he sought out universalist principles in his media/communication work in order to countervail omnipresent misunderstanding in the world; he hoped to establish thereby a c…
Innis’ Great Transformation
Harold Innis inaugurated his research into Canadian economic history (staples studies) to countervail the purportedly universalist claims of mainstream economics; he believed the mainstream “justified” exploitation of the developing world by the wealthiest countries. Conversely, he sought out universalist principles in his media/communication work in order to countervail omnipresent misunderstanding in the world; he hoped to establish thereby a c…
Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky Meet Harold Innis
Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky Meet Harold Innis is an original, critical, in-depth analysis of the media and communication thought of Canada's most highly acclaimed scholar, Harold Adams Innis. Even in Canada, however, Innis's writings until now have been only partially cited and interpreted: Innis is usually stereotyped as being merely an economic historian fixated on previous civilizations, whereas in fact he was an astute analyst whose main …
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