- Alternative media
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Media (newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc.) which are alternatives to the business or government-owned mass media.
- The Art of AIDS
From Stigma to Conscience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Examines AIDS as an increasingly common theme in drama, dance, music, film,television, painting, photography and theatre. Reveals not only the expected themes of death and dying, but also the issues of spirituality and healing, political and social action, sexuality and responsibility, isolation and community, racism and heterosexism.
- The Barefoot Channel
Community Television as a Tool for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
- The Best of The Nation
Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
An anthology of articles from The Nation.
- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- Broadcast Licenses for Religious Groups
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Religious freedom does not imply the right of any group to use the public airwaves to promulgate their own religious views while excluding all conflicting points of view.
- Brock University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian book on television useful despite omitting Quebec, sexuality (book review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
- Canadian Television Today
Resource Type: Book
The authors look at the key political decisions that have helped shape Canadian teleivision examine the relationship between the nation, state and culture; and look at the impact of multiculturalism and globalization.
- Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
- Choices
A Family Global Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Content Magazine - Number 48
February 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1975
- CTV: The Television Wars
Gittins, Susan
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Documents the history of CTV, the creation of Canada's first private TV network.
- The Cultural Industries in Canada
Problems, Policies and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
- Culture Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
- The Design of Everyday Things
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
- Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
- Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
What to wear when you're going to be interviewed on TV.
- Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article
Advice for what to wear when you are going to be interviewed on television.
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
- Fame & Fortune Online
Resource Type: Website
Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
- Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- Free-For-All
The Struggle For Dominance On The Digital Frontier
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Fraser analyzes the aspects of the television business such as the failure of regulation, the attempt to create a national TV culture, digital revolution and the effect on consumers.
- A Goal for National Survival: 50% Canadian TV Content
Resource Type: Article
The destruction of the CBC would be the greatest disaster to befall Canada.
- A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Have new social media made 'traditional' media obsolete?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
New media provide additional channels for getting messages out, but they don't make older media obsolete. The task is of public relations is to reach people through the media they use. In an increasingly diverse and fragmented world, that means using as many different channels of communication as possible.
- Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
- In The News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
- In the News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada - 2nd Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
An introduction of media relations in Canada, from both a practical and philosophical approach.
- Inside Seven Days
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
The story of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC public affairs television program that dominated the Canadian airwaves from October 1964 to May 1966.
- Journalism: Truth or Dare?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
- Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
A history of American English.
- Mass Communications and American Empire
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
An in-depth look at international and domestic media, and the effect of capitalism on mass communications.
- Media and Minorities
Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
- Media Names & Numbers
Your Connection to the Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2009
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
- Media Spike # 54 –Channel your customer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Even with the introduction of the internet, the staying power and reach of television is unparalleled. This is why marketers still drool at the thought of television marketing.
- Media Think
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
- MediaSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- The Movement and the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during after after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation.
- NATO attacks on national TV headquarters and installations in Tripoli
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders condemns NATO airstrikes on the Tripoli headquarters of the state-owned national TV broadcaster Al-Jamahiriya and two of its installations.
- Nielsen Media Research (Canada)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
How media have taken over our lives.
- Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Addresses concerns about the forces that shape the diversity of news and the way news is delivered in Canada.
- The power of the remote: Not so powerful after all
Review of Television and the Remote Control
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2000
- Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
- Spirit of the Web
The Age of Information from Telegraph to Internet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
A journey through communication technology and our fascination and tribulations with it.
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Television and the Remote Control
Grazing on a Vast Wasteland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Television Mythologies, Stars, Shows and Signs (book reviews)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
- Television Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to television in the Sources directory for the media.
- Televison's Profound Impact on Nature
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
- Top Ten Strategies for Appearing on a TV Talk Show
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Prepare yourself to appear on a TV talk show.
- TV: A Day in the Life
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
A survey and discussion of the experience of watching TV and the debate over whether it is inherently a social good or evil.
- TV News in the Age of the Super Anchor
Why Brian Williams is Just the Tip of the Scandal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Super Anchor is often more actor than reporter. His or her role is to give the story a certain imprimatur, which it doesn’t always deserve. Much of the real work, digging, and investigation is done by others.
- Understanding Media
The Extensions of Man
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
McLuhan says that the means by which people communicate determine their thoughts and actions.
- We are manipulated by TV, or do we "creatively fit TV into our lives"? (book review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
- Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
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