How Canadians Communicate IV

Media and Politics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5771556
AutoresPamela Holway, Christopher Robb Waddell, Joyce Hildebrand, M J R Hall (0000-0002-8917-9646), Chris Waddell, Frits Pannekoek, Dean Chikinda, Florian Sauvageau, Norval Morriseau, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, J Daniel Schubert
EditoresDavid Taras (0000-0003-2771-6474), Christopher Waddell
Ano2012
Páginas390
Data de publicação2012-05-01
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoHow Canadians communicate IV (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraAthabasca University Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.15215/aupress/9781926836812.01
OpenAlexW4372016049
Open LibraryOL25379275M
ISBN9781926836812
GOOGLE_BOOK_ID6bdw1VFSQuoC
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas10

In June 1980, in the wake of the Québec referendum on sovereignty and the 1979 and 1980 federal elections, the Reader's Digest Foundation and what was then Erindale College of the University of Toronto co-sponsored a conference on politics and the media. 1 The Erindale conference brought together prominent party strategists and organizers, journalists, and scholars.Participants spoke about the power of television images, the presidentialization of Canadian politics, the concentration of media ownership, the failure of leaders to address policies in a serious way during elections, the sheer nastiness and negativity of political attacks, the power of the media to set the agenda and frame issues during elections, and the need for politicians to fit into those very media frames if they wished to be covered at all.None of these concerns have vanished with time.If anything, they have hardened into place, making them even more pervasive and intractable.Yet even as so much has remained the same, so much has changed.When the conference "How Canadians Communicate Politically: The Next Generation" was convened in Calgary and Banff in late October 2009, the media and political terrains had been dramatically transformed.The revolution in web-based technology that had begun in the mid-1990s had hit the country with devastating force.As online media depleted the newspaper industry, TV networks, and local radio stations of a sizable portion of their audiences and advertising, the old lions of the traditional media lost some of their bite.The stark reality today is that every medium is merging with Canada as a distant and, to some degree, foreign land that is barely recognizable and, for the most part, irrelevant to their lives.How to draw digital natives more fully into the Canadian political spectacle remains one of the country's great challenges

Canadian Policy and Governance · canada · Communication in politics · Mass media · Political aspects · politics and government · Social media