Communications, Time and Power
An Innisian View
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7704057 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent Di Norcia (University of Sudbury, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 335-357 |
| Publication date | 1990-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423900012282 |
| OpenAlex | W2127051426 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 34 |
In 1946, after visiting Russia, Harold Innis remarked that the time had come to broaden the range of political economy by studying, first, the struggle for social supremacy between states, churches and commerce; and, second, the related competition between languages, religions, cultures and communications media. This, I argue, is what Innis accomplished. His early studies of Canadian economic history transcended conventional economics and laid the groundwork for a later political theory of communications. It expressly took up the 1946 challenge to address competing monopolies of knowledge and power, hence manipulating the space and time-binding properties of communications media. Innis' work reflected a materialist model of communications, a social ecology, a soft determinism or philosophic naturalism and it linked knowledge, freedom and power. Finally, I conclude, these insights permitted Innis to transcend bias and to search for a balanced culture
Competition (biology · Determinism · Epistemology · Materialism · Media ecology · Media studies · Naturalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Ecology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy
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The Developing Canadian Community
Staple Theory as Commodity Fetishism
Technological Determinism and Canadian Political Economy
Technology and the Canadian Mind
From Critical Theory to Critical Ecology
Political Economy in the Modern State
Le Possibilisme De Harold Innis
Erkenntnis und Interesse
The Economic Institutions of Capitalism
Comparing Political Thinkers
Harold Innis as Political Theorist
The Developing Canadian Community
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2009 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |