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Canadian Journal of Communication
Volume 32(1), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Charland, Maurice Newsworld, Riel, and the Metis: Recognition and the Limits to Reconciliation 9-27
 
  This article examines the rhetorical character of CBC Newsworld's 2003 "re-trial" of Metis leader Louis Riel 
 
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television
history
rhetoric
intercultural
broadcasting and media
 
 
Compton, James R., and Comor, Edward The Integrated News Spectacle, Live 8, and the Annihilation of Time 29-53
 
  In this article, the recent strategic turn by U.S.-based media corporations toward the use of broadband technologies, particularly online video, is assessed as a turning point in how news is being conceptualized, distributed, and consumed 
 
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technologies
visualization
television
theory
news
 
 
Bryant, Susan Communication and the Environment in the Age of the "Small Planet" 55-70
 
  This article explores the disjuncture between knowledge about environmental degradation and the social practices in which we engage, and analyzes some of the meanings that we produce/reproduce about the natural world as citizens of the so-called global village 
 
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international development
technologies
ecology
 
 
O'Neill, Brian Digital Audio Broadcasting in Canada: Technology and Policy in the Transition to Digital Radio 71-90
 
  This article presents an overview of digital radio policy in Canada in the period 1995 to 2005 and the attempt to implement the Eureka-147 Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) standard as the replacement technology for analog AM and FM broadcasting 
 
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politics and government
broadcasting and media
radio
North America
economics
 
 
Butovsky, Jonah Phony Populism: The Misuse of Opinion Polls in the National Post 91-102
 
  This paper describes how the National Post regularly excludes polling details that are essential to an accurate reading of the data 
 
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methodology
public opinion
print journalism
broadcasting and media
 
 
Alhassan, Amin The Canonic Economy of Communication and Culture: The Centrality of the Postcolonial Margins 103-118
 
  This paper examines three major paradigms - mass communications, political economy, and poststructuralism - to demonstrate how the process of knowledge production erases their connection with their postcolonial subjects and locations 
 
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cultural studies
critical theory
education
higher education
 
 
Savage, Philip Teaching Communication Policy: Pedagogy in Brief 119-129
 
  This article summarizes a Canadian Communication Association round table session in June 2006 that brought together some of Canada's leading instructors of communication policy: Paul Audley (Schulich School of Business, York University), Pierre Belanger (Department of Communication, University of Ottawa), Vanda Rideout (Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick), Liora Salter (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), and David Skinner (Communication Studies, York University) 
 
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education
higher education
 
 
Buxton, William J. Forging the canon of media studies: Should we heed the plea for timeless texts? 131-137
 
  These texts represent an awakened interest by communication scholars in the history of their field 
 
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education
higher education