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
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1442608862
ISBN-13
9781442608863
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208825089
Product Key Features
Author
David Taras
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Communication & Media
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Toronto
Author Biography
David 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).