Canadian Journal of Communication (vol. 30, nº 1, 2005)

ARTICLES

Aboriginal Cultural Capital Creation and Radio Production in Urban Ontario
Kathleen Buddle
Abstract: This paper addresses the production of local subjects through radio production, challenging the common assumption of a straightforward conceptual link between de-traditionalization and media globalization. It examines the directions several urban Aboriginal cultural producers in Canada are pursuing to confer meaning on their futures, questioning whether Native modernities are necessarily replacing traditions. Focusing on several First Nations radio shows issuing from university radio station facilities in London and Toronto, Ontario, the paper offers insights into the ways Native radio producers are culturally mediating neo-traditional (new-old) versions of Aboriginality over the airwaves. The article highlights the interdependence of Aboriginal public spheres, radio mediation, and popular sovereignty.

For a Political Economy of Indymedia Practice
Abstract
Bob Hanke

Public Safety Telecommunications in Canada: Regulatory Intervention in the Development of Wireless E9-1-1
Abstract
Gordon A Gow


RESEARCH IN BRIEF

Terrorism, Trade, and Internet Privacy
Abstract
Martin R. Dowding

Revenge in U. S. and Canadian News Magazines Post 9/11
Vicki L Deveau and Dr. Gregory T Fouts
Abstract: A content analysis of U.S. and Canadian news magazines was conducted to determine the incidence of revenge words and phrases following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, New York; whether revenge was associated with justifications of evil and/or photographic reinforcements; and whether these contents differed between the two countries. Issues from September 17, 2001, to January 14, 2002, of the major news magazines from the two countries were examined; 698 articles were identified as relating to September 11. The Canadian magazine Maclean’s presented significantly more revenge words and phrases than either of the two other magazines. In contrast, the solely U.S. magazine, Newsweek, presented evil justifications significantly more than the magazines containing Canadian content, Maclean’s and the Canadian edition of Time. The results were presented in the context of exposure to magazines being a source of learning of revenge motives, attitudes, and behaviours.

Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Social Shaping of Technology: Comparing South Korea and Canada
Abstract
Stephen D. McDowell and Chunil Park


REVIEWS

The Singular Objects of Architecture
Abstract
B. Gerry Coulter

Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe: Consequences of Global Convergence
Abstract
Nicola Simpson

Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry
Abstract
Nicola Simpson

Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy
Abstract
Graham Langford

New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality
Abstract
Grace Chung

Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World
Abstract
Robert Armstrong

Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
Abstract
Owen Chapman

Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture, and Marketing
Abstract
Andrew Mactavish

Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture
Abstract
Isabelle Pare

Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice
Abstract
Kenneth C. Werbin

The Hypercomplex Society
Abstract
Michael Felczak

Connected or What It Means to Live in the Network Society
Abstract
Bob Hanke