University of Toronto Press
Digital Mosaic: Media, Power, and Identity in Canada
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- David Taras
- University of Toronto Press
- Paperback
- 9781442608863
- 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches
- 1.25 pounds
- Social Science > Media Studies
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Digital Media has transformed the way Canadians socialize and interact, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire knowledge. Traditional media, including newspapers and conventional TV networks, remain the primary link to Canada's political sphere but are under concerted attack. YouTube, blogs, online broadcasting, Facebook, and Twitter have opened new and exciting avenues of expression but offer little of the same nation-building glue as traditional media. Consequently, Canada is experiencing a number of overlapping crises simultaneously: a crisis in news and journalism, threats to the survival of the media system as a whole, and a decline in citizen engagement.
In Digital Mosaic, David Taras both embraces and challenges new media by arguing that these coinciding crises bring exciting opportunities as well as considerable dangers to democratic life and citizen engagement in Canada.
Author Bio
David Taras is professor of Communication Studies and holds the Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University.
Before coming to Mount Royal, David taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Amsterdam and, most recently, the University of Calgary, where he served as the Ernest C. Manning Chair in Canadian Studies. While there, he received the Students' Union Award for Teaching Excellence five times and was inducted into the Teaching Excellence Awards Hall of Fame in 2011.
David received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Legislative Internship Program at Queen's Park.
He has served as an advisor to the Alberta government on national unity and as an expert advisor to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage during its two-year review of Canadian broadcasting policy from 2001 to 2003.
He was president of the Canadian Communications Association and served two terms on the Board of Governors of the University of Calgary. He received the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005.
A leading expert in the area of Canadian media policy and its relationship to Canadian identity and democracy, David is a regular commentator on Global TV's Morning News. He is the author of The Newsmakers: The Media's Influence on Canadian Politics and of Power & Betrayal in the Canadian Media. He is co-author of The Last Word: Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada.
In addition, he has edited or co-edited more than a dozen books including three volumes in the How Canadians Communicate series, four editions of A Passion for Identity: Introduction to Canadian Studies and, most recently, Making a Difference: The Internet and Elections in Comparative Perspective.
A co-edited book, How Canadians Communicate IV: Media and Politics was published in 2012 and Media Shock and the Future of Canadian Democracy will be published in 2013.
Source: Mount Royal University
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