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Published in: Publizistik 1/2019

08-01-2019 | Kommunikationswissenschaft international

Communication research and teaching in Canada

Authors: Assistant Prof. Gregory Taylor, Ray op’tLand

Published in: Publizistik | Issue 1/2019

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Canada has had greater historical impact in the field of communication studies than a country of its economic and political stature would indicate. Canadian scholars pioneered sub fields such as the political economy of communication (Dallas Smythe, William Melody, Vincent Mosco) and medium theory (Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan). Canada has also played an oversized position in the historical development of communication technologies, from the telephone (Scottish-Canadian Alexander Graham Bell), wireless technologies (Reginald Fessenden), to plug-in radios (Ted Rogers). Canada’s overall impression in communications seems disproportionate to its generally quiet place in the global power dynamic. The first episode of the UK’s Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1969 was entitled “Whither Canada?” because the very idea of caring about such a thing seemed perfectly suited to absurdist humour (Kingwell 2018). Nevertheless, that is indeed the question this article seeks to address. …
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Footnotes
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One past CCA president has unfortunately passed away.
 
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Metadata
Title
Communication research and teaching in Canada
Authors
Assistant Prof. Gregory Taylor
Ray op’tLand
Publication date
08-01-2019
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Published in
Publizistik / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0033-4006
Electronic ISSN: 1862-2569
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-018-00481-z

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