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Social License to Operate: A Recipe for Project Success
Authors: Nazreen Shah Ruslan Ahmad
Published: March 2017

The paper aims to elucidate the importance of stakeholder engagement, public consultation, conflict management and community outreach in securing social license to operate from the communities in delivering a successful project. All these elements are interconnected and vital to manage the changing landscape of stakeholder's expectations.

The paper also aims to put forward some lessons learned and good practices from PETRONAS projects in Malaysia or abroad whichever appropriate. These good practices are among the lessons learned from projects and how they are put into practice on the ground.

In this new era of globalization, securing social license to operate is as important as obtaining license to operte from the regulators. Time has change and social license to operate has started to gain traction especially in the last 10 years. History has shown that projects in any parts of the world can fail if they are not being managed properly and this can impact their image, reputation and most importantly their coffers and business sustainability.
Social Performance Indicators in the Update of the Oil and Gas Industry Guidance on Sustainability Reporting
Authors: Murphy H. , Collacott R. , Campbell J. A. , Padilla A.
Published: March 2017

To assist oil and gas companies with reporting on non-financial performance, IPIECA – the global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues, the American Petroleum Industry (API) and the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) published the Oil & Gas Industry Guidance on Voluntary Sustainability Reporting in 2005 as a framework for improving the quality and consistency of voluntary sustainability reporting. As societal and stakeholder concerns about energy security, climate change and related issues persist, sustainability reporting in the oil and gas sector continues to play a pivotal role in the way individual companies engage with a broad range of stakeholders on their activities and plans. The Guidance was first revised in 2010, and then again more recently in 2015, to update the framework, refine indicator protocols, and introduce new indicators where needed. This paper discusses the value of sustainability reporting, the motivation behind the update and the changes made, before providing an overview of social performance indicators in the Third Edition of the Guidance.
Product Regulatory Compliance in an Agile Supply Chain
Authors: Chai Meng Jin
Published: March 2017

Product stewardship has developed progressively into a social license to operate expectation from consumers and businesses alike in today's chemical industry. This trend has been reinforced by governing authorities with the introduction of increasing number and complexity of chemical regulations which shifts added responsibility to industry to manage product supply chains in a more sustainable fashion. This has no exemptions to the oil and gas industry which calls for the embedment of product safety, product regulatory compliance and the overarching product stewardship agenda into the core of a product's value chain at every life cycle stage. This paper gives a brief overview of major emerging regulations in the Asia Pacific region relevant to industry and examines the impact of these regulations towards a product's supply and value chain. This paper also highlights the prospects for early adopters to transform the perceived burden of compliance into strategic opportunities to enhance product stewardship performance as well as secure long term access to markets by adapting key areas in the product's supply chain as well as leveraging supply chain intelligence. This is with the goal of implementing structured data driven approach or "data to decision" frameworks in securing existing product market access and bringing new products into target markets thereby reducing "time to market" from a product regulatory compliance stand point as well as adequately managing product HSE risks systematically.
Achieving HSE Performance on a Previously Inactive Rig through Crew Resource Management Approach
Authors: Hamzah Rosli , Ghani Syazwan , Nurdin Muaz
Published: March 2017

An approach to establish an effective HSE culture on a previously inactive jack-up rig contracted for a one well drilling program proved successful in achieving the campaign HSE targets. The challenges were remote location, crews were unfamiliar with each other much less with the service company's personnel and unfamiliarity with the rig equipment. In addition, the operator's shore based team did not have previous experience in Crew Resource Management (CRM) approach.

A CRM approach in tandem with an iterative job planning and execution strategy based on Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle was utilized. Personnel with extensive hands on experience in this aspect were mobilized to the rig to provide coaching on board covering all personnel. Coach's observations were shared daily with head office and performance metrics were monitored to gauge performance to identify area of focus for coaching. A weekly debrief with the shore based management team on progress was also carried out.

The effectiveness of this approach was assessed with previously employed CRM used on working rigs on long term contracts as well as rigs on a one well contract. The coaching commenced after the rig was already in operations and the change in HSE culture could be compared to the culture after CRM approach was implemented. Results showed that the approach used in this campaign resulted in significant improvement in the performance metrics that were monitored. In addition, in a matter of six weeks, significant improvements were observed on non-technical skills as a leading indicator. Participation by all on board the rig with strong support from shore based and head office management of the operator and drilling contractor were key to the success of the program
How to Manage HSSE Risks in the Giant Oilfield Between Iraq and Iran Border?
Authors: Rong Li , Zhongjun Xu , Xianglin Sun , Xi Wang , Liqiu Ping , JiaXing Wang
Published: March 2017

CNPC has undertaken several giant oilfields between Iran and Iraq border including N. Azadegan, S. Azadegan, Halfaya and Rumaila for oil development. As a result of an extended investigation and evaluation of existing risks, personnel safety should be given prority and countermeasures are discussed on the basis of dozens of years’ operation experiences.

The HSSE challenges of those fields are many: a lot of unexploded ordnance were littered along the border as a result of Iran-Iraq war, so huge costs and longer construction duration for cleaning them prior to develop the oilfield; potential risks of war and terrorist attack always exist in Iraq as one of project managers was attacked by roadside bomb and one employee was kindnapped according to Media reported; sensitive wetland might be polluted by waste water/oil, drilling cutting, residual acid while local authorities have the strictest environment protection.

This paper will focus on some causes of HSSE accidents such as lack of balance between fast operation and process safety, unsafe behavior. Furthermore, more HSSE management measures are provided: (1) Three Specialized Grand HSSE principles of CNPC have been established from the beginning of oilfield development. Grand Security is the foundation of HSSE; Grand Logistics is the safeguard of HSSE and Grand Harmony is the necessity of HSSE. Among of which impregnable fortress and safe camp are built, centralized management of logistics and accommodations for both Companies and all Contractors on basis of each project; the tri-sector partnership between the consortium, civil society and the government is established as one consortium for a harmony local community. (2) Emergency Plan for evacuation is submitted, meanwhile, some cases are introduced. (3) "Zero discharge and Zero pollution" scheme is addressed hereby. In sum, "Safety first" culture is established on the critical plan to meet development target of each oilfield.

According to successful HSSE management, accident frequencies have been decreased sharply and nobody hurt in terms of terrorist attack. The intent of this paper is to share HSSE experiences and learning that may enable future safe operations in the oilfield between Iran and Iraq border, to avoid some of the operation and safe pitfalls.
Health Management Solution Thanks to Wireless Vibration Sensors Network
Authors: Vincent Le Breton , Guillaume Lavaure , Pascal Vouagner , Laurent Bonnans
Published: March 2017

Integrity management of assets has become a major issue for oil & gas contractors. Despite regular inspections and numerous safety procedures, failure events are still regularly reported from fields. Consequences are generally limited however; the risk of catastrophic events is still high whereas new systems could be easily put in place for reasonable pricing and without impacts on operations. This paper presents an innovative solution based on combination of traditional vibration measurements and wireless technology that helps operator to get an accurate health status of operating installation.

Vibration and temperature sensors can periodically and autonomously provide measurements to a condition-based maintenance software. By eliminating the wiring constraints, critical machinery located on difficult or dangerous access areas can now be instrumented and monitored easily. Wireless technology allows users to hold off the risk of rotating parts or hot spots by limitation of interventions. Condition based maintenance (CBM) techniques such as vibration analysis allows detection of suspect mechanical behaviors at the earliest possible stages for the best mitigation strategy.

This paper presents the demonstrator of such solution which has been deployed within industrial harsh environment. Ship machineries have been equipped with a complete and fully autonomous system. As an example some pumps have been monitored during a 6 weeks sea campaign. This pilot-test has demonstrated efficiency of such system and readiness of wireless technology for surveillance applications. The chosen application of shipping industry is particularly representative of harsh environment constraints as well as difficult access. Furthermore, quick installation and easy set-up of the entire system is compatible of operation constraints of commercial ships in service.

As an outcome of this experimentation, vibration and temperature measurement have been recorded over time. Smartly computed, this type of information provides at a glance to the operator a very accurate health status of critical components like bearings, gears, unbalance, misalignment… Overall behavior and tendencies have been displayed and shared with the operator. Compatibility of the proposed solution with operator expectation has been validated. Featuring of overall overview with color indicators (Green/yellow/red) is especially appreciated.
Optimization of Mercury Health Surveillance Program for Offshore Workers
Authors: Ling Lee Hooi , Kasim Asmahwati
Published: March 2017

Offshore production of oil and gas is capital intensive coupled with high operational costs. The current low oil price continuing from 2015 and 2016 are having a profound impact on offshore oil producers’ profitability and viability. Offshore oil workers face the constant challenge of improving operational efficiency and lowering operational cost. In this current climate it is even more important to ensure offshore workers’ health and wellbeing are not compromised to ensure social responsibility and optimal productivity. This normally will necessitate constant health monitoring of offshore workers. The objective of this paper is to share some of the lessons learnt in determining (a) which workers are required to be in the Mercury Health Surveillance Program, (b) the necessary and effective Personal Protection Equipment for these workers and (c) the required Mercury Health Awareness training for these workers.
Delivering an Integrated Approach of Medical Emergency Response Plan
Authors: Yaakob Norsayani M
Published: March 2017

Oil and gas business which is typically complex, diversified and high risk requires more standardized, comprehensive and updated approach to manage its safety and health risks in order to safeguard and protect the safety and health of its employees. An incident in petrochemical plant for example may result in single or multiple casualties leading to severe consequences such as burn and fatalities. A well plan, robust, effective and timely medical emergency response (MER) is an essential requirement for the recovery measures to save life and minimize the magnitude of any injury or acute illness, should the control measures fail.

Several factors may affect medical emergency response efficiency such as geographical distances, availability of transportation options and its infrastructure, communication, weather, and security. PETRONAS applies 4-stage Medical Emergency Response including ALARP at all installations under its operational control, including all phases of work activities and projects. Situational analysis is being emphasized to be performed at individual worksite to assist in the development of Site Medical Emergency Response Plan (MERP) and determine its effectiveness. When any of PETRONAS facilities cannot reasonably meet the MER response times, a MER Risk Assessment is performed for the particular worksite to justify a formulation of new MER stage response and recommend appropriate risk mitigation measures to ensure that the risks are kept As Low as Reasonably Practicable (ALARP).

This paper aims to share PETRONAS perspective in managing medical emergencies due to injury or acute illness at its work location through development of Medical Emergency Response Plan (MERP). This includes situational analysis, MER risk assessment, mass casualty management and medical evacuation. It also highlights the establishment of MERP at PETRONAS complexes that is effectively managed through an integrated approach utilizing common and updated facilities and procedure.
MEDIAÇÃO JUDICIAL DE CONFLITOS – UM ESTUDO DE CASO SOBRE DESAFIOS INSTITUCIONAIS
Authors: Diniz Bárbara Silva
Published: March 2017

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 A mediação de conflitos está institucionalizada no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro. Prevista em diversos leis e integrando políticas públicas diversas, atualmente seu maior risco pode ser o de ser considerada uma “panaceia universal”, ideal para todos os tipos de conflitos, o que, ao final, contribuiria para sua fragilização e descaracterização. Considerando essa problemática, o presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar o primeiro caso de mediação judicial do Distrito Federal, verificando lições que ele pode trazer ao momento atual e contribuindo para uma reflexão sobre os desafios da mediação judicial de conflitos na atualidade.

 
A VONTADE GERAL COMO PROCESSO ÉTICO-JURÍDICO DE DELIBERAÇÃO COLETIVA E MOVIMENTO ECONÔMICO-POLÍTICO DE INSTITUCIONALIZAÇÃO DO PODER
Authors: Mariano da Rosa Luiz Carlos
Published: March 2017

Baseado na perspectiva rousseauniana, que confere à Vontade Geral a condição para o exercício da soberania popular, o artigo em questão, a partir da dialética instituinte/instituído, desenvolve as implicações que tal noção carrega e impõe ao referido conceito a ideia que encerra tanto um processo ético-jurídico que envolve as decisões coletivas e, antes, a sua elaboração, quanto um princípio de integração dinâmico-dialética que traz como fundamento um fim comum e que se manifesta através de um movimento econômico-político de objetivação de valores, necessidades e fins do povo enquanto corpo coletivo e moral que converge para a universalidade concreta que cabe à Constituição e às leis.
Study on Althusser’s Theory of Ideology
Authors: Zhang Lei
Published: March 2017

Althusser is a representative of the structuralism of western Marxism, and his theory of ideology holds a prominent position in philosophical theories. Firstly this paper starts from the overall theory of Althusser to probe into the source and course of his theory of ideology; secondly this paper introduces the main content of Althusser’s theory of ideology, which includes the characteristics of ideology,
ideology and science, ideological state apparatus and ideological interpellation subject; thirdly employing basic viewpoints of Marxism and referring to foreign and domestic research results, this paper conducts analysis and evaluation on Althusser’s theory of ideology to dig into its in-depth theoretical connotation and value and to apply the beneficial elements into Chinese ideological
construction.
Searching and Browsing Using RDF-Encoded Metadata: The Case of Omnipaper
Authors: Baptista Ana Alice
Published: March 2017

Often metadata applications concentrate on either searching or browsing. Two completely independent prototypes covering both searching and conceptual browsing (with overlapping functionality) have been built as part of the Omnipaper project: one using RDF and one using the Topic Maps family of technologies. This paper will present the full RDF prototype, with particular emphasis on the homogeneity provided by the use of RDF (together with RDF-S) in both approaches. The Omnipaper Resource Description Framework (RDF) prototype handles both these approaches and builds a coherent semantic metadata layer that may be used as a basis for all other prototypes of the Omnipaper project. As a future phase of the project, the main features to be added to the project’s final prototype will be multilinguality and personalization.
Scholarly Publishing and Public Service
Authors: Boismenu Gérard , Beaudry Guylaine
Published: March 2017

The theme announced by the title of this article covers a very large field, a field we will aim to restrict for the purpose of focusing on selected issues. A reflection on scholarly publishing, and in particular journals, must be based on a survey of the players in the sector. This first step will allow us to underline the more-than-significant place held by non-profit and “responsible” journal publishers in scientific communication. Through this we will also examine alternative models that confront the disproportionate stronghold of the big commercial publishers and their oligopolistic practices. This, in turn, will allow us to take into account the estimated effects of these models on the non-profit journal sector. As a last point, we will mention possible actions that could be taken, in terms of public service.
Canadian Scholarly Journals at a Technological Crossroads
Authors: Lorimer Rowland , Lindsay Adrienne
Published: March 2017

This article discusses the dynamics of a transition from print to online publishing by Canadian social science and humanities (SSH) journals. It reports the results of a survey of publishing practice, financial operations, and attitudinal orientation to the online environment. The survey results are analyzed and the dynamics of an evolution to online publishing are proposed and considered.
Revenge in U.S. and Canadian News Magazines Post-9/11
Authors: Deveau Vicki
Published: March 2017

A content analysis of U.S. and Canadian news magazines was conducted to determine the incidence of revenge words and phrases following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, New York; whether revenge was associated with justifications of evil and/or photographic reinforcements; and whether these contents differed between the two countries. Issues from September 17, 2001, to January 14, 2002, of the major news magazines from the two countries were examined; 698 articles were identified as relating to September 11. The Canadian magazine Maclean’s presented significantly more revenge words and phrases than either of the two other magazines. In contrast, the solely U.S. magazine, Newsweek, presented evil justifications significantly more than the magazines containing Canadian content, Maclean’s and the Canadian edition of Time. The results were presented in the context of exposure to magazines being a source of learning of revenge motives, attitudes, and behaviours.
Aboriginal Cultural Capital Creation and Radio Production in Urban Ontario
Authors: Buddle Kathleen
Published: March 2017

This paper addresses the production of local subjects through radio production, challenging the common assumption of a straightforward conceptual link between de-traditionalization and media globalization. It examines the directions several urban Aboriginal cultural producers in Canada are pursuing to confer meaning on their futures, questioning whether Native modernities are necessarily replacing traditions. Focusing on several First Nations radio shows issuing from university radio station facilities in London and Toronto, Ontario, the paper offers insights into the ways Native radio producers are culturally mediating neo-traditional (new-old) versions of Aboriginality over the airwaves. The article highlights the interdependence of Aboriginal public spheres, radio mediation, and popular sovereignty.
Licence and Poetic Licence: A Critical Examination of the Complicated Relationship Between the CRTC and Specialty Channels
Authors: Killingsworth Jamie
Published: March 2017

Specialty channels in Canada earn revenues from cable carriage that are rarely commensurate with their audience size. These revenues are potentially so lucrative that prospective operators often make unrealistic promises to the CRTC regarding the channels’ original and Canadian content. In exchange for these promises, the Commission limits competition among specialty channels. Once a licence is obtained, however, specialty channels quickly attempt to extricate themselves from their burdensome promises in order to maximize profits and establish stronger advertising revenues. In some cases, specialty channels attempt to redefine themselves in ways that depart significantly from their original promises. Specialty channels can improve their chances of securing changes to their licences through strategically timed applications. In a misguided attempt to promote Canadian programming and curb the dominance of American broadcasters, the CRTC is not allowing specialty channels to properly prepare for a future that may not include lucrative revenues from cable subscription fees.
Community Engagement, Performance Measurement, and Sustainability: Experiences from Canadian Community-Based Networks
Authors: Ramírez Ricardo
Published: March 2017

Community-based networks (CBNs) are local organizations that have introduced information and communication technologies (ICTs) as tools for social, economic, and cultural development. This study reports on the achievements of 11 Canadian CBNs in terms of how they engage their clients and how they address sustainability. A tentative typology is provided and contextualized with the literature on social capital. Community engagement was reported to be an ongoing process, involving a broad range of community stakeholders and leading to a responsive project management style. The track record with sustainability shows a growing recognition about the importance of base-line data, an awareness about the challenge in defining what to measure, and the realization that performance measurement is neither easy nor inexpensive.
Online News at Canada’s National Public Broadcaster: An Emerging Convergence
Authors: Bélanger Pierre C.
Published: March 2017

This paper retraces the genesis and evolution of Canada’s French public broadcaster’s foray into online news (OLN). It examines how Radio-Canada’s online news service has been integrated with radio and television newsrooms, how it contributes to expanding the public sphere, and the manner in which it differentiates itself from the competition. The paper concludes by reviewing the challenges facing the public broadcaster in an era where pressures for civic-minded journalism are engendering a set of participatory practices.
Media Coverage of Acts of Terrorism: Troubling Episodes and Suggested Guidelines
Authors: Cohen-Almagor Raphael
Published: March 2017

During the past 40 years there have been many instances in which media coverage of terrorist events was problematic and irresponsible, evoking public criticism and antagonizing the authorities. This article aims to shed light on the intricate relationships between government, media, and terrorists. Through close scrutiny of irresponsible actions of some media outlets in crisis situations in the U.S., the U.K., Israel, Canada, and Germany, it argues that important lessons should be learned, indicating the need to develop a set of guidelines for responsible media coverage of terror. One might think that in this triangle of government, media, and terrorists the media would side with the government in the fight against terror. This study shows that this was not always the case.
Virtual Communities of Practice: Explaining Different Effects in Two Organizational Contexts
Authors: Tremblay Diane-Gabrielle
Published: March 2017

This paper presents results from a study on virtual communities of practice (CoPs) in Canada and highlights the main consequences of these new modes of communication, work organization, and knowledge creation through two case studies, 1 which are analyzed in detail. The two case studies reveal the different effects observed and offer possible explanations for the variations in the results. Several factors explain the success of one community of practice and the relative difficulties involved in the other. In the first case, the participants were all volunteers and showed high levels of engagement and motivation to attain their objectives. In the second case, the participants were appointed and their project was somewhat more diffuse; the CoP experienced a turnover in leadership, contributing to a lesser degree of motivation and little interest in communicating with each other as a means of creating knowledge. This analysis contributes to organizational literature by highlighting some organizational conditions that lead to different effects in “virtual,” or telecommuting, communities of practice.
Civility in Online Discussion: The Case of the Foreign Policy Dialogue
Authors: Hurrell A. Christie
Published: March 2017

This paper focuses on Web-based discussion in an online policy consultation and examines specific discourse features to evaluate how the concept of civility served to shape public discourse in a moderated, rule-based forum. The study results reveal that citizen participants in the case study under consideration developed, maintained, and enforced norms of civil discourse, and that these norms helped to promote understanding and consensus-building. The study also cautions that civil dialogue alone cannot ensure effective communication between governments and citizens. Civil dialogue can be used to marginalize some participants, and it does not necessarily allow dialogue participants to effectively transmit their opinions to government decision-makers.
How Connected are Canadians? Inequities in Canadian Households’ Internet Access
Authors: Middleton Catherine A. , Sorensen Christine
Published: March 2017

What can be learned from an analysis of Canadian household Internet adoption patterns? Households headed by lower-income, less-educated, or older Canadians have Internet adoption rates well below the Canadian average. In contrast, households with heads who are highly educated, earn above average incomes, or are younger than 55 are adopting the Internet at rates well above the average. In the simplest of terms, privileged Canadians are online, while their less-privileged compatriots are not. What is most surprising about these findings is that very little notice has been given to them, although Internet adoption data have been available for many years.
Why They Lie: Probing the Explanations for Journalistic Cheating
Authors: Shapiro Ivor
Published: March 2017

This Revew Essay examines four books that offer a variery of explanations fabrication and plagiarism within journalism. They include explanations offered by the two most famous recent perpetrators of fabrication (Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass), as well as an analysis of the recent scandals at the New York Times and of cheating in the wider society. Among the explanations probed are workplace pressure, the “star” system in journalism, and the culture of trust and lack of policing within news organizations. Simpler explanations are rejected, including pure ambition, lack of ability, dysfunctional management, and affirmative action.
Millennium Dreams: Arts, Culture, and Heritage in the Life of Communities
Authors: Jeannotte M. Sharon
Published: March 2017

Our Millennium was a special project of the Community Foundations of Canada to mark the new century. It used the occasion of the millennium to invite Canadians to make lasting “gifts” to their communities to make them better places. An assessment of the Our Millennium initiative noted the disproportionate number of projects that featured various aspects of arts, culture, and heritage. This study examines the linkages between the cultural capital embedded in the communities and the social capital that it generated. It investigates the nature of both the projects and the participants in them as well as the major social capital themes that the arts, culture, and heritage projects appeared to be supporting. It also explores the concept of “cultural citizenship,” locating it in the social and physical spaces in which civic engagement takes place.
Placing Aboriginal Art at the National Gallery of Canada
Authors: Whitelaw Anne
Published: March 2017

In 2003, the National Gallery of Canada opened its new galleries of Canadian and Aboriginal art. Through an analysis of the narrative of the display, this article explores the implications of the introduction of historical Aboriginal objects into the exhibition of Canadian art both for the evaluation of Aboriginal cultural production as art and for the construction of the discourse of Canadian art history. Although there are moments of rupture in the galleries’ narrative, the introduction of Aboriginal objects does little to question the aesthetic assumption of the art museum, which frames all works within its walls in terms of Western conceptions of artistic value.
More than Just an Arts Festival: Communities, Resistance, and the Story of Desh Pardesh
Authors: Fernandez Sharon
Published: March 2017

Desh Pardesh was a Toronto-based arts festival that strove to bring forward the voices of those who are most silenced inside the South Asian community and society at large: gays, lesbians, bisexuals and trans-gendered people. This article tells the story of Desh and discusses the impact of the organization/festival through a focus on three themes: the building of alliances to foster community resistance through the arts, the link between cultural and civic participation, and the notion of “home away from home” belonging. In putting together this case study the author draws on mainstream and ‘alternative’ print media sources, post-colonial theory, her own experience and solicited observations from individuals closely involved with Desh Pardesh throughout its 13-year existence.
Harold Innis’ “Crisis in Public Opinion”: Performance, Retrieval, and the Politics of Knowledge
Authors: Buxton William J. , Dickens Risa
Published: March 2017

On May 12, 1943, Harold Innis delivered a speech entitled “The Crisis in Public Opinion” at the annual luncheon of the Canadian National Newspapers and Periodicals Association, held in Toronto. The address has survived in transcript form in the Innis Papers collection at the University of Toronto Archives. Our paper can best be seen as a companion piece to the edited transcription of Innis’ original speech, which follows in this issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication. Emphasizing the performative nature of the speech, we contextualize “The Crisis of Public Opinion” by examining the correspondence leading up to and following the speech. We argue that Innis’ views on the “crisis of public opinion” in the print media indicate that he understood this particular issue as part of a broader public crisis related to the decline of political and juridical institutions and to shifts in power and influence. His commentary on media in Canada was bound up with his effort to promote collective engagement as a corrective to the biases in power that he had detected. The 1943 speech is thus significant not simply as a “missing link” between Innis’ writings on Canada and his later work on communication theory; it is a clear and compelling distillation of the engagement, enactment, and performance that were the abiding features of his work as an intellectual.
The 2005 Graham Spry Memorial Lecture Making Media: Creating the Conditions for Communication in the Public Good
Authors: Raboy Marc
Published: March 2017

Contemporary media in all their guises support and sustain an unprecedented platform for communication and public discussion - for those who are able to participate. Creating an environment in which media can flourish is the domain of public policy. The media policy framework and the possibilities that it provides are terribly misunderstood. That does not mean that media policy should be cast aside. Using a range of historical and contemporary issues and examples, this article explores how people and their public institutions can create the conditions that enable media and communication technologies to serve the public good.
What Makes Journalism “Excellent”? Criteria Identified by Judges in Two Leading Awards Programs
Authors: Shapiro Ivor , Albanese Patrizia , Doyle Leigh
Published: March 2017

What does “excellence” mean in journalism? The literature reveals no universally agreed set of standards, and awards guidelines are often unclear. We interviewed judges in two leading Canadian print journalism awards programs, using a sequence of open-ended and ranking questions to probe their criteria of excellence in a way calculated to elicit not just the standards they felt should be applied but the standards they actually did apply. Judges mentioned a wide variety of criteria, including the social importance and impact of works of journalism. But only two values were affirmed consistently: writing style and reporting rigour.
Telework: A Way to Balance Work and Family or an Increase in Work-Family Conflict?
Authors: Tremblay Diane-Gabrielle
Published: March 2017

Some see in telework a way to better balance professional and personal or family responsibilities. We analyzed the data on telework in the Workplace Employee Survey (WES) and found that only a small percentage of workers indicate that they telework because of family obligations, while for two thirds, it is because of employers’ demands. Data is compared according to gender and number of children, and again this highlights the fact that work-family balance is not the main reason for working at home. The data show that it is employers’ requirements that explain the majority of hours of work done at home.
Heritage Institutions, Resistance, and Praxis
Authors: Ashley Susan
Published: March 2017

Heritage institutions traditionally function as subtle hegemonic devices for the production and public representation of knowledge, meaning, and belonging. This article looks at the role of public intellectuals called heritage interpreters who work at heritage institutions as agents of knowledge production. The concept of the public sphere is considered in relation to Gramsci’s ideas on hegemony, the intellectual, and praxis to offer an expanded view of communicative production at heritage institutions. The article explores the interpreter’s role resisting ideological hegemony and commodification, and in creating spaces and conversations for alternative imaginings of and struggle toward public knowledge and radical pedagogy.
Convergence Bites Back: Labour Struggles in the Canadian Communication Industry
Authors: Mosco Vincent
Published: March 2017

This article examines the concept of labour convergence in the context of two significant labour struggles in the Canadian communication industry: the 2005 lockouts at Canada’s national public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and at Canada’s second-largest telecommunications company, the Telus Corporation. It begins with a brief analysis of convergence as a technological and institutional process, specifically as it applies to communication technology, the communication arena, and communication companies, and as a myth that contains utopian visions of universal connectedness. The article then describes how labour is deploying its own form of convergence, a form that conflicts with and sometimes “bites back” at the communication industry and its dream of friction-free capitalism.
De-skilling Effects on Journalists: ICTs and the Labour Process of Taiwanese Newspaper Reporters
Authors: Liu Chang-de
Published: March 2017

Through in-depth interviews with Taiwanese newspaper workers, this paper illustrates the “de-skilling" effects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on journalists. In recent years, Taiwanese reporters have experienced an increase in workload and an intensification of managerial control due to the introduction of new technologies in the newsroom. Using ICTs in the workplace consequently has harmed journalists’ working conditions and autonomy. Moreover, ICTs have led to a trivialization of reporting tasks and devaluation of reporters’ experience and knowledge. The degradation of reporting work resulting from the use of ICTs has enabled managers at Taiwanese newspapers to hire young employees to fill the jobs of experienced reporters and to reduce salary costs.
Doing It for Themselves: Striking Newsworkers Publish the Castlegar Citizen, 2000-2005
Authors: Edge Marc
Published: March 2017

The Castlegar Citizen, a strike newspaper published in Castlegar, B.C., from 2000 until 2005, is presented as a case study of newsworkers publishing while involved in a labour dispute with their employer. Previous experiences in publishing strike newspapers in various countries are examined, with the elements essential to their success being identified as 1) a will on the part of newsworkers and their unions to oppose increasingly powerful ownership groups, and 2) the support of local community members, including advertisers. These conditions were seen to be present in the example of the Castlegar Citizen, and it was only its small size that led to its closing, when staff members began to leave for other endeavours.
The Fundamental Role Played by Unionism in the Self-Structuring of Professional Journalists from Québec
Authors: Demers François
Published: March 2017

This article focuses on journalists’ unions in Québec. It illustrates the main role they played in the self-structuring of professional journalists and the construction of a collective and public identity. It details the challenge posed by the Internet to journalists and their unions. To that effect, it digs into history and revisits different key moments, documents, and discourses of self-recognition and public affirmation of the group. That history is looked at in relation to an “event,” the introduction of the Internet, which forced the unions to deal with the potentially disrupting effects of the new practices being developed.
“Very Little Wrist Movement”: Rock Hudson Acts Out Sexual Heterodoxy
Authors: Jeffers McDonald Tamar
Published: March 2017

Hollywood films of the late 1950s obsessed over the idea of virginity, seeking to render it externally through acting style. Generally virginities thus spectacularized are female: male virginity belongs to the man’s past. When found, therefore, the male virgin is inevitably established as both a comic figure and a fake. Rock Hudson performances remove such assurances, however: in Pillow Talk he plays a womanizer and a potential virgin. Hudson usually offers a performance dichotomy, with the heterodox sexualities evoked by movement, the traditional male calm and still: Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964), however, reverses this trope and makes the calm, experienced, persona the fake.
From No Go to No Logo: Lesbian Lives and Rights inChatelaine
Authors: Freeman Barbara M.
Published: March 2017

This study is a feminist cultural and critical analysis of articles about lesbians and their rights that appeared in Chatelaine magazine between 1966 and 2004. It explores the historical progression of their media representation, from an era when lesbians were pitied and barely tolerated, through a period when their struggles for their legal rights became paramount, to the turn of the present century when they were displaced by post-modern fashion statements about the “fluidity” of sexual orientation, and stripped of their identity politics. These shifts in media representation have had as much to do with marketing the magazine as with its liberal editors’ attempts to deal with lesbian lives and rights in ways that would appeal to readers. At the heart of this overview is a challenge to both the media and academia to reclaim lesbians in all their diversity in their real historical and contemporary contexts.
Bareback Sex: Masculinity, Silence, and the Dilemmas of Gay Health
Authors: Haig Thomas
Published: March 2017

Improving interpersonal communication skills has become an increasingly important aspect of HIV prevention strategies, based on the notion that this will contribute to more consistent condom use. The emergence of “barebacking” (intentionally unprotected casual sex among gay men) has foregrounded the limitations of such strategies. Efforts to encourage talk run counter to the ways in which silence is valued within bareback sex culture and serves to construct specifically masculine forms of pleasure and desire. This paper draws on gender analysis and phenomenology to consider how prevention organizations can come to grips with this dilemma by re-examining their own ways of interacting with the communities they serve. Using a range of examples, it explores ways organizations can work around barriers to interpersonal communication by enhancing their own ability to converse with community members on issues such as bareback sex.
La réprésentation de la sexualité adolescente dans les quotidiens du Canada central et du Chili : Quelles leçons tirer des Conférences du Caire et de Beijing?
Authors: Martinez Andrea , Meneses Aldo , Sarabia Diana Lucía
Published: March 2017

Abstract: Using as an entry point the recommendations of the Cairo and Beijing Conferences calling on the media to promote gender equality, including the individual right to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) without coercion or discrimination, this article analyses the representation of teens’ sexuality in six newspapers from Central Canada and Chile. The statistical comparison of the most significant lexicons of these newspapers shows a fascination for sexual violence against adolescents that, regardless of socio-political and linguistic backgrounds, reproduces sexist and homophobic stereotypes that are inconsistent with a real debate about their access to information and resources in SRH.

Résumé : Partant des recommandations des Conférences du Caire et de Beijing enjoignant les médias à promouvoir l’égalité des sexes, y compris le droit individuel à la santé sexuelle et reproductive (SSR) sans contrainte ou discrimination, cet article analyse la représentation de la sexualité adolescente dans six quotidiens du Canada central et du Chili. La comparaison statistique des lexiques les plus significatifs de ces quotidiens révèle une fascination pour la violence sexuelle contre les jeunes qui, par-delà les contextes sociopolitiques et linguistiques, reproduit des stéréotypes sexistes et homophobes incompatibles avec un véritable débat sur leur accès à l’information et aux ressources en SSR.
Digital Audio Broadcasting in Canada: Technology and Policy in the Transition to Digital Radio
Authors: O’Neill Brian
Published: March 2017

This article presents an overview of digital radio policy in Canada in the period 1995 to 2005 and the attempt to implement the Eureka-147 Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) standard as the replacement technology for analog AM and FM broadcasting. Canada was an early adopter of this system, but unfavourable conditions have led it to largely abandon the approach in favour of a multiplatform system. The interaction between industry, government regulation, and broadcasting policy around digital radio reveals a complex situation of competing interests. Despite extensive regulatory intervention to protect Canadian interests, the pace of technological change and the dominant influence of U.S. interests have made the transitional path to digital radio even more uncertain than it was 10 years ago.
Leites fermentados: histórico, composição, características físico-químicas, tecnologia de processamento e defeitos
Authors: Teste Teste
Published: March 2017

Fermented milk is the generic name given to products such as yogurt, cultured milk, acidophilus milk, kefir, curd and kumys. This name is due to the fact that the milk is inoculated with starter cultures of lactic acid microorganisms, which convert part of the lactose from milk to lactic acid by fermentation. The lactic acid fermentation increases the shelf life of milk, inhibiting the growth of pathogenic bacteria and / or deteriorating. Other substances are also formed in the fermentation process, giving the products desirable sensory characteristics. Originally popular in the Middle East, fermented milks have a global spread of its consumption, mainly from the development of products containing added ingredients such as fruits and flavorings. The ratio of these products as functional foods aimed at health benefits, simplicity of manufacturing technology, the affordable and high relative expiration date for milk are some of the factors responsible for the success of these products in the world. In this paper we present a literature on the history, importance, composition, physico-chemical characteristics, manufacturing and defects that can occur in fermented milk products, with emphasis on yogurt and kefir.
Utilização de métodos didáticos alternativos para o estudo da anatomia veterinária
Authors: Teste Teste
Published: March 2017

Animals are routinely used both for educational and research as to its use occurs in order to pass on information already acquired mainly for anatomical studies. This work aims to develop alternative teaching models that can be used in the teaching of veterinary anatomy. Thus, the routine use would be reduced in practical classes in veterinary anatomy, anatomical parts derived from dead animals. To that end, the models were made of the shoulder joints and elbow dog biscuit dough using to represent the various structures existing in these joints. The faithful reproduction of the stomachs of horse and dog also was tested using their own stomachs taken from animals that died and came in this experiment were prepared and used as templates. All stomachs were pretreated with propolis extract and then were filled with sawdust, stitched and varnished. The drying air injection, a method of preservation of hollow viscera, also has been used in our industry in the preparation of the stomachs of different animal species. This technique allows us to compare the morphology of the digestive tract of different species. An analysis of the topography of the vascular face of a horse can be demonstrated with the use of wool (red) mounted on the bone surface of the animal's head, thus illustrating the whole plot which is responsible for arterial blood supply to this region. The use of teaching resources has proven to be a facilitator of learning, contributing positively in the teaching-learning. Thus, we conclude that the use of alternative methods to the unnecessary use of animals is ethical, effective and economically viable.