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Digital Media has transformed the way Canadians socialize and interact, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire kwledge. 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN-101442608870
ISBN-139781442608870
eBay Product ID (ePID)209287572
Product Key Features
SubjectCommunication & Media
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid Taras
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication26/01/2015
Place of PublicationToronto
Country of PublicationCanada
Author BiographyDavid Taras holds the Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University. He is the author of several books, including The Newsmakers: The Media's Influence on Canadian Politics (1990) and Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media (2001), and co-author of Last Word: Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada (2005).