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- Television Business International (TBI) The leading trade magazine for the international TV business, covering the production, distribution, broadcasting and financing of TV programming around the world. Published by the UKs Informa Group, the magazine reaches a qualified circulation of over 7,000 senior TV executives in North America, Europe, Latin American and Asia.
- Broadcaster Provides the Canadian communications industry with in-depth, and wide-ranging coverage of industry issues and new technologies.
- Mediaweek Magazine Online Dedicated to serving the media industry with the latest breaking news
- The Media Giants Information about media companies that dominate global communications and entertainment.
Adweek The inside stories on advertising creative, client/agency relationships, and successful global advertising strategies for ad agency executives.
Advertising Age A definitive general collection of news and analysis regarding goings-on in the world of advertising.
MediaAnalyzer Innovative, scientifically validated solutions for visual market and media research . . . patented Attention Tracking method . . . enables you to see your products through your customer's eyes - how they perceive websites, print ads, TV spots, and more.
Brand Republic Advertising, marketing, media and PR
Advertising Educational Foundation (AEF) The advertising industry's provider and distributor of educational content.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
Democracy The free and open source internet TV platform.
The State of the News Media An annual report on American journalism.
Related Sites to 'The Uprising of 2003.'
- Consumer Groups Charge FCC Analysis Supporting Media Ownership Rules is Fundamentally Flawed Fifty-five national and state organizations called upon Congress to support legislation that would rollback the Federal Communications Commission's recent deregulation of the nation's media markets.
- House Votes 400-21 For Appropriations Bill That Begins Rollback of FCC Media Ownership Rules
- Consumers Federation of America Communications - Media Concentration
- Media Access Project A Non-Profit Public Interest Telecommunications Law Firm
- Center for Digital Democracy Committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of non-commercial, public interest programming.
- The Nation Internet & New Media
- The Progressive Media articles
- In These Times Michael Powell is leaving the FCC
Questions for consideration:
- Given the concerns raised in the course about communication politics and trends, discuss the potential positive and negative directions the Internet might take in terms of serving and furthering democracy. Sites of interest: The Struggle for Net Freedom, Internet Democracy.
- Amy Goodman, host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now! wants "a media that celebrates dissent, that is a sanctuary of dissent -- because that’s what will make this country healthy, and that’s what will make us safer, here... and around the world." What challenges do Goodman and her intellectual allies face in terms of Radio in the U.S. ? Sites of interest: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Amy Goodman's 'Empire.'
- Does Canada face the same issues of media concentration found in the United States ? Are we better or worse off in terms of the media serving and furthering democracy ? Site of interest: Canada's Media Monopoly, Journalists Question Media Ownership in Canada, Concentration to Convergence: Media Ownership in Canada, Diversity of Voices, Canada Media Too Concentrated Says Poll, Diversity, Democracy and Access: Is Media Concentration a Crisis ?
- Is media oligopoly a global concern ? Please discuss arguments for and against.
Other sources of information related to exam questions:
Media in Canada Wikipedia, New World of Media Convergence Six CBC Radio clips about media ownership in Canada, CRTC - Media Ownership in Canada Simplified index of multiple ownership charts, Concentration of Media Ownership Australia, Canada, the United States, and by Corporation, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting Policy Briefs, Media Monitor Stories on the Canadian broadcasting system, media ownership, and cultural policies.
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