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Canada's Video Revolution: Pay-TV, Home Video and Beyond.
Authors: Thomas Terrence J.
Published: May 2017

Pay TV, satellite dishes and video cassette recorders have transformed the content and pattern of television viewing in Canada. The changes should continue, moreover, in the near future with discretionary specialty services (Canadian and complimentary U. S. ones), high definition television, interactive television and further improvements in satellite technology. The structure of the television industry in Canada is indeed in a state of flux, and the implications of all the changes have not been well-charted.
Getting There: Producing Photostories With Immigrant Women
Authors: Dutli Margaret
Published: May 2017

Nervous at the prospect of an interview, nervous because she does not speak English very well, and the interviewer will not know her language, Aurora tells herself, "But I know it. I have to say to myself, 'I am a human being and know some things. I have so many abilities.'" This significant statement indicates that Aurora, subject of one of the photostories, is overcoming some of the obstacles in the way of immigrant women, and many other women, in their effort to find employment. The program that has helped her achieve this affirmation of herself is outlined in the book under review.
Communication and Journalism Programs in Canada
Authors: Tate Eugene
Published: May 2017

We are presenting here a listing and description of all Communication and Journalism programs in Canada. The descriptions have been provided by chairpersons of each program. In a few cases we did not receive information in time to include it here. If your program was overlooked or if you forgot to send us information, please let us know and we will publish the information in the NOTES section. We hope that present and future students of Communication in Canada will find this section a helpful reference.
Teaching Media and Gender
Authors: Saunders Eileen M.
Published: May 2017

The field of Communication Studies has traditionally dismissed the gender question as trivial, or incorporated it through a view of the 'sexless audience.' The integration of feminist questions remains for many a non-issue in media studies. Unfortunately, this is true for both the more traditional sectors of our scholastic community and for those committed to teaching communication within a critical perspective. It is interesting, for example, that a recent issue of Media, Culture and Society, devoted to the subject "Critical Communications Research in North America," does not include one piece on the gender issue and its place within a critical perspective. The special issue of the Journal of Communication entitled, "Ferment In The Field," was comprised of thirty-five original essays which the editors argued were 'representative1 of the 'critical issues' and 'research tasks' facing our discipline today. Again, the gender issues does not appear on the agenda. If the question of social and economic power is central to any critical perspective, and I would argue that it is, then the failure of such work to come to terms with sex-based power differentials and their role in cultural production and reproduction is sympotmatic of serious flaws in our theoretical traditions.
True Confessions: Subliminal Strategies in Teaching Advertising and Surplus Value to the New Conservatives
Authors: Jhally Sut
Published: May 2017

If the function of theory is to truly inform practice then for teachers of critical studies, the most important concept to consider in devising a pedagogical strategy must be that of 'hegemony'. Before students enter universities they have already had a lifelong course, taught by the school system, the legal system and the media system (to name only a few), in the legitimation of the social order and modern society. In general terms, contemporary students are much more conservative than their predecessors of the 1960's and 1970's, and reflect the triumph of right-wing politics as represented in the elections of Brian Mulroney , Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. This conservatism is strongest in the United States. The student audience is not an empty vessel waiting to be 'given the word' but is a generation that sees its interests tied up with the development of the capitalist economy. Such a recognition, I believe, is fundamental to devising appropriate pedagogical strategies that can break through this conservative veil and put critical issues at the heart of the agenda of student life.
Theoretical Practice and Intellectual Work: Teaching Critical Communication Theory
Authors: Bruck Peter A.
Published: May 2017

Teaching theory to undergraduate students is a steep task. The notion of theory is an unfamiliar and strange one for them, and their willingness and ability to engage in more abstract thought can by no means be taken for granted. Theory -- so it is thought -- cannot be taught to undergraduates in their first or even second year, and the prerequisites for its study have to be taught within the university. The majority of first and second year courses are taught through the medium of common sense language leaving most of their epistemological and methodological bases unexplored. No doubt there are cultural reasons for the observable absence of much care for self-expression and language use among most undergraduates.
Afterword and Comment
Authors: Tate Eugene D. , McConnell Kathleen
Published: May 2017

An education which does not give promise, gives nothing. The declaration of giving facts, and facts only, is a declaration of bankruptcy. Present day teaching, in its false modesty, impresses me as a series of farewell parties to life. True education, however, enables man to survive the limitations and follies of his age and to enter the next; for this reason it tries to endow him with resilience, vision, resources, dreams -- and of course forebodings and warnings as well. (Rosenstock-Huessey, 1970)
The Critical Communication Review. Volume I: Labor, The Working Class, and the Media
Authors: Melody William H.
Published: May 2017

The essays in this collection are intended to: (1) challenge an established perspective in communication research;
Economic Relations Between Selected Canadian Film Producers and American Major Distributors: Implications for Canada's National Film Policy
Authors: Pendakur Manjunath
Published: May 2017

Film has been an early and fundamental stratum in the multilayered "free" flow of information which includes wire services, books, magazines, radio and television programs, and teleprocessing of data from the advanced industrialized countries to the countries of the periphery. The American film industry has been a pioneer in setting the pattern for the one way flow of cultural goods from the United States to its dependencies (Schiller, 1969; Tunstall, 1977). The American film producer-distributor canbines have also set the pattern for exporting abroad the know-how, through their subsidiaries and investments, to produce imitations of the products they export as parts of the structure of domination (Guback, 1969).
News From Home: The Media Needs of Canadians in the U.S.A.
Authors: Sherman Barry L.
Published: May 2017

Canadian citizens are relocating in large numbers in the United States. By the end of 1979, nearly 300,000 Canadians were listed under the alien registry program of the US. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The number has been increasing at a rate of about 15,000 per year (INS, 1980, 83).
Emergent Media: The Native Press in Canada
Authors: Raudsepp Enn
Published: May 2017

Content analyses of the daily press have tended to confirm the marginal position of Native Canadians in mainstream society. Singer, for example, found that in eighty percent of the articles he surveyed. Indians were presented in "conflict-deviance" situations. "The image of the Indian," he concluded, "is apt to be that of an individual whose relationships to Canadian society are essentially mediated by dependence on government (Singer, 1983. 234).
Growth and Preservation-Oriented Communication Behaviour
Authors: Surlin Stuart H. , Constaris George
Published: May 2017

Maslow's humanistic theory of self-actualization (1954) is a cognitively-based theory which states that we are purposively attempting to reach our maximum levels of achievement, i.e., be the best that we can be. The question arises as to how one goes about reaching one's greatest potential of self-actualization through communication behaviour.
Media and Elections in Canada
Authors: Joch Robinson Gertrude
Published: May 2017

This slim volume is a welcome addition to the small number of textbooks dealing with the Canadian media. It is divided into six chapters and includes a historical overview of Canadian politics and media development as well as a discussion of theories of communication. Two subsequent chapters present data on the ways in which the 1979 - 1980 federal campaigns were reported by the electronic and print media. The final sections describe government regulation of the media and issues relating to media and politics in Canada. The text is well written, the layout is clear and the arguments are presented in a straight-forward manner, suitable for introductory level courses. The book is also useful as supplementary material in advanced courses.
The Elements of CAL: The How-to Book on Computer Aided Learning
Authors: Young Wanda
Published: May 2017

Rowland Lorimer stresses the need to include Canadian content in the curricula for elementary and secondary (but he would not object to adding university level and non-formal education) materials used in formal schooling, and in courses taken by teachers-to-be. Lorimer is committed to the need to develop the Canadian culture and has carried out his commitment in this study, which was undertaken at the Canadian Learning Materials Centre at Dalhousie University during a sabbatical and also in a regular column in the publication of the Association of Canadian Studies.
Jiri Menzel and the History of the Closely Watched Trains
Authors: Cooper Thomas M.
Published: May 2017

Slack's book presents the reader with a comprehensive analysis of the conceptual flaws and limitations of several dominant theoretical models used in analysis of the relations between technology and society. Her objective is to lay the groundwork for an alternative theoretical framework and to develop a basis for criticism and intervention. Part One develops some major criticisms of dominant theory that, while somewhat abbreviated, are succinct and accurate. Part Two elaborates on the concepts of causality that are embedded in different approaches to the relations between technology and society and concludes with a discussion of structural causality. Part Three develops an analysis of the history, significance and implications of U. S. Patent Law for the development of communication technologies. The theoretical model draws heavily on Althusser, is well developed and provides a good basis for evaluating the usefulness of this approach.
Communication Technologies and Society: Conceptions of Causality and the Politics of Technological Intervention
Authors: Manseli Robin E.
Published: May 2017

Jiri Menzel and The History of The Closely Watched Trains by Josef Skvorecky is the story of a modem Czechoslovakian film director and his Oscar-winning (1967) feature film. Internationally acclaimed novelist, scriptwriter, Josef Skvorecky traces Ostre Sledovane Vlaky (Closely Watched Trains/Closely Observed Traindon the Lookout for Trains/Special Priority Trains) from Bohumil Hrabal (1914 -) and his fifties novella, through the best selling novel of the sixties, to collaborative screenplay (Hrabal/Menzel) to Czech-produced film (1966, 92 minutes). With Menzel and Closely Watched Trains (1966) as twin centerpieces, Skvorecky carefully analyzes three contextual cross-sections: 1) the socio-political milieu of modern Eastern Europe, 2) Menzel's films until Postriziny (Short Cut, 1980), and 3) the tension between artist, c.f., film-maker, and state in politically narrow societies.
Big Sounds From Small Peoples: The Music Industry in Small Countries
Authors: Burnett Robert
Published: May 2017

Every nation has its own very distinctive music culture. But what happens when the giant transnational companies move in, when electronic technology arrives, spreading with it mass produced popular music? The big transnationals see the small countries as providing marginal markets and being sources of exploitative talent. But does the money ever filter through to the original artists and performers? Will every country end up with universal westernized popular music that sounds like the Eurovision Song Contest? Or will modern music technology be used to keep smaller cultures alive and thriving?
Notes
Authors: Tate Eugene D.
Published: May 2017

The inaugural conference for the Commonwealth Association for Education in Journalism and Cmmunication will be held in Arusha, Tanzania on 27, 28, and 29 June 1985. The guests of honour are the Honourable Salim A. Salim, Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanznia and 'Incke Faletau, Director of the Commonwealth Foundation. Host of the conference is M. A. Maganga, MP, Principal of the Tanzania School of Journalism. For further information about the conference please contact: Professor Robert Martin, Faculty of Law, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 3K7
Cambridge and Toronto: The Twentieth Century Schools of Communication
Authors: Berg Dreyer
Published: May 2017

As the foremost twentieth-century schools of communication, Cambridge and Toronto were dissimilar organizationally. the former being a school of English, the latter being chiefly informal and interdisciplinary. At neither school was there unanimity of opinion nor uniformity of outlook, merely creative scholars whose collective insights about the processes of human communication far surpass those of all other universities in the Western world. The principal figures at Cambridge were I. A. Richards and F. R. Leavis and at Toronto, H. A. Innis and H. M. McLuhan. Cambridge was ascendant from about 1912 to the Second World War; Toronto, pre-eminent afterwards to 1980. At both schools the approach to human communication was linguistic, embracing the classical, medieval, and Renaissance periods and the languages of contemporary media such as advertising, film, radic, and the press. At Toronto H. M. McLuhan, the intermediary between the two institutions, gave the humanistic study of communication unequaled scope, depth, complexity and relevance.
The Communication Theorist as Pirate and Argonaut: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Communication Theory
Authors: Tate Eugene D.
Published: May 2017

Two years ago I presented a paper at the International Conference on the Life and Work of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. The conference was held at the University of Waterloo and was an attempt by persons affected by the seminal work of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy to call the attention of the academic community to his seminal insights into life.
Communications in the 80's
Authors: Thomas Terence J.
Published: May 2017

This book contains the proceedings of the conference "Communication in the 80's" held at the University of Calgary from 29 April to 1 May 1984. The papers were divided into five sessions dealing with jurisdiction, competition, the role of regulators, communications infrastructure in Alberta and the future. The topic is obviously vast and the speakers were from diverse backgrounds - business executives, lawyers, politicians from all levels of government, academic and members of regulatory agencies - so there was no central focus for the papers. Nevertheless, the volume is useful because it brings out the complexity of the subject, and, in doing so, provides a healthy counterweight to many narrow, academic studies in the area.
The Mass Media Declaratian of UNESCO
Authors: Samarajiwa Rohan
Published: May 2017

This is a book that could do with a long-winded subtitle. The title, though not inaccurate, is simply inadequate to describe the contents. This book is much more than a simple explication of, or a commentary on, the well-known Mass Media Declaration (unfortunately, this knowledge usually does not extend beyond the title and the controversy that surrounded it). First, it is an analysis of the Neb International Information Order debate, with special emphasis on developments in UNESCO. Secondly, it is a contribution to the field of international law of communication. Thirdly, it is an attempt to revitalize the discourse on ethics and mass communication.
The 1985 Southam Lecture on California and the Media
Authors: Godbout Jacques
Published: May 2017

One of the first conferences on "communications" was probably held in Rome, in the year 270 B.C., during the reign of Tacitus, and most likely bore on the reliability of messengers, optimal use of the Appian Way, the allocation of air routes to owners of homing pigeons and the effects of triremes on international trade. The first such conference I had the honour of attending took place in Ottawa, in the Year 4 before Pierre Trudeau and was devoted to the regulation of broadcasting and the forseeable effects of multi-channel television on the country's literary culture. Today still -- and it remains an object of mystery -- governments continue to define "communications" in terms of telephones and cameras. You will understand, then, the need to begin by shedding some light on the too generous nature of this word.
Not Just the Facts: How Radio Assumes Influence in an Emergency
Authors: Scanlon Joseph , Hiscott Robert
Published: May 2017

On Christmas Day, 1974, a cyclone called Tracy devastated the northern Australian city of Darwin, population 45,000. When the storm passed it left most homes destroyed, the rest damaged. All utilities -- power, water, sewage, telephone -- were out. Communications were in disarray. Sixty - five persons were dead and at least 1,000 were injured. (Scanlon, 1980, 121)
News Accounts of Attacks on Women: A Comparison of Three Toronto Newspapers
Authors: Lake Robert
Published: May 2017

"It was as if, suddenly, somebody had declared violent, anonymous war on women of the city where I live," wrote the editor of Quest magazine in September 1982. The city was Toronto, where over a six month period in 1982, the three Toronto daily newspapers (Sun, Star and Globe and Mail) published three hundred ninety-one items "the basic message of which was that Toronto had experienced a surge of violence against women" (page 5).
Policy Research in Telecommunications: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
Authors: Woodrow R. Brian
Published: May 2017

Why are Japanese corporations so successful? For many who study multinational corporations that has become the key question of the eighties. Some answer it by pointing to Japanese discipline and management skills -- the basis for unmatchable efficiency. Others suggest that Japan is almost closed to foreign competitors, so Japanese corporations develop and thrive in a large, protected market then invade foreign markets from a secure base.
A Reply to Tate and McConnell's "Afterword and Comment" to the Special Issue on Teaching Critical Communication Studies
Authors: Duncanson W. Thomas
Published: May 2017

I feel compelled to respond to Eugene D. Tate and Kathleen McConnell’s (1985) "Afterword and Comment" to the Canadian Journal of Communication's 1985 "Special Issue on Teaching Critical Communication Studies." Tate and McConnell misuse the work of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, misunderstand the problem of curriculum development, and miss altogether the validity and significance of Marx inspired criticism of "human communication" as both historical artifact and discipline of theoretical inquiry.
Notes
Authors: Tate Eugene D.
Published: May 2017

We wish to thank Stuart Leard for stepping in at the last moment and providing the French translations of the abstracts for two research articles. Stuart's effort is greatly appreciated.
The Economic Factors Relating to Canadian Television Broadcasting Policy: A Non-Technical Synthesis of the Research Literature
Authors: Hoskins Colin , McFadyen Stuart
Published: May 2017

Communication is a field of study which draws on many disciplines, one of which is economics. Much of the research on the economic aspects of communication, however, has been published in economic or public policy journals, or books often of a technical nature, rather than mainstream communication journals and hence has been relatively inaccessible to non-economist communication scholars. In this article we set out to provide a non-technical synthesis of the research literature concerning the economic factors relating to Canadian television policy.
Television's Window on the World: International Affairs Coverage on the U. S. Networks
Authors: Hackett Robert A.
Published: May 2017

Two timely and politically relevant concerns underlie this book. They are the role of network television in the American foreign policy process, and the international debate on a New World Communication Order, a debate partly sparked by Third World criticisms of imbalance in international news flow, and the lack of "development news" in Western media.
Canadian National Theatre on the Air, 1925 - 1961: CBC-CRBC-CNR Radio Drama In English: A Descriptive Biography and Union List
Authors: Jane Miller Mary
Published: May 2017

This bibliography is the result of a remarkable salvage operation by Howard Fink and Concordia University. As Professor Fink explains in his introduction, ten years ago the scripts and recordings which formed a world-class heritage of radio drama were scattered, strayed, sometimes stolen, often wiped and almost completely forgotten. Professor Fink had the vision and determination to tackle of retrieving the texts and supporting documentation, (with the help of SHRCC, Concordia University and colleagues) finding them a home, setting up an interdisciplinary Centre of Broadcasting Studies to take full scholarly advantage of these resources and then undertaking the absolutely necessary task of cataloguing them so that they would be useable for researchers of all kinds, The Bibliography is that step and is avaliable in micro-fiche and on line at Concordia. The next, eagerly awaited step will be the publication of selected scripts and detailed analyses by several scholars using a variety of critical tools and methods.
Studies in Mass Communication and Technology. Volume I: Studies in Communication
Authors: Lake Robert
Published: May 2017

These volumes present forty-six articles selected on merit from the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Culture and Communication held in 1981 at Temple University. As one would expect from a conference with that broad a mandate, the reader of these volumes is like an air traveller in the desert: we skip from oasis to oasis. As one also expects, some stops are more fruitful than others. But the journey is worth the effort. The quality of the papers is generally high.
Closed Circuits: The Sellout of Canadian Television
Authors: Twomey John E.
Published: May 2017

This is an important book. The message it carries and the impact it is making across Canada attest to that fact. It is a partisan, passionate, polemic on the history of Canadian television over the past fifteen years.
Educational Broadcasting: A Problem of Divided Jurisdiction
Authors: Zolf Dorothy
Published: May 2017

The issue of jurisdiction over educational broadcasting in Canada has engendered much debate in recent years. Historically, Canadian communications policy has evolved in a highly centralized fashion, the federal government having insisted since the earliest days of broadcasting upon exercising almost exclusive control in the field. The long-accepted principle of public ownership of the airwaves suggests that broadcast licensees are holders of a public trust, thereby justifying regulatory oversight to ensure the public interest. That the governmental authority should be at the federal level is justified by a constitutional provision allocating to the Parliament of Canada jurisdiction over undertakings extending beyond the limits of provincial boundaries.
Terminal Distortion: Basal Incoherence In Some Recent Mass Media Criticism
Authors: Cunningham Stanley B.
Published: May 2017

Within the body of mass media criticism, it is argued with growing frequency that the media are guilty of a great deal of misbehavior, that in ways both deliberate and unwitting they supply information to their publics in varying shades and hues of untruth. Often these criticisms are substantiated with litanies of atrocity stories; and the critical charges themselves are framed in standard terms such as 'deception,' 'distortion,' 'bias,' 'fabrication,' 'illusion' and so on. There may be an element of rhetorical overstatement to many of these assessments, and some may feel that the treatment of the media has been excessively harsh; but the meanings of the terms in which these criticisms have been cast have generally been unproblematic, and the messages coherent. There is, for instance, the shared perception among commentators that terms like 'distortion' and 'fabrication' denote unwelcome states of affairs which nonetheless still are corrigible, at least in principle. It also is generally assumed by these same critics that audiences are entitled to truthfulness and accuracy in media portrayals, and that this entitlement reflects what readers and viewers want.
The Electronic Scholar: A Guide to Academic Microcomputing
Authors: Overduin Henry
Published: May 2017

This is a useful guide to academic uses of the microcomputer. It will be of value both to those already owning one and wondering how to use it better, and to those contemplating a purchase. The author's stated biases come from his experience as a teacher, scholar and administrator in the humanities and social sciences, a welcome "bias1' to anyone who has tried t o struggle through books on microcomputing written by authors of a different background.
World Broadcasting in the Age of the Satellite
Authors: Soderlund Walter C.
Published: May 2017

World Broadcasting in the Age of the Satellite presents a comparative study of radio and television broadcasting throughout the world. It contains nine chapters divided into three major parts: I. Frames of Reference in World Broadcasting, II. Four Worlds of National Broadcasting, and III. Previewing and Reviewing World Broadcasting.
The Growing Dawn
Authors: Snow Peter
Published: May 2017

Each of these volumes, in its own way, contributes to a better understanding of the media. Each will certainly find its defenders and detractors. Together they are a trilogy of poetry, polemics and pedantry.
Sweepers in the Corridors of Power: Canadian Broadcast Journalism
Authors: Tobin Judith
Published: May 2017

This book seeks to fill a number of functions as a practical text for broadcast journalism students. Focusing on news and touching on documentaries, it offers advice on research and writing, interviewing and listening, newscast structuring and reading, camera angles and lighting, participation in news conferences and political campaigns, and effective video story-telling. Beyond these skills, the authors consider some of the ethical and legal aspects of gathering and reporting the news. Partly structured in workbook format, a number of useful exercises are provided in the back of the volume. The style of writing is personal, casual, and anecdotal; the layout of the book includes wide margins with plentiful bold print headings to aid quick access to the information on "tape dubbing and editing," or "performing on camera."
From "A Cornerstone of Canada's Social Structure" to "Financial Self-Suffiency": The Transformation of the Canadian Postal Service, 1852-1987
Authors: Osborne Brian S. , Pike Robert M.
Published: May 2017

Much of our recent work has been concerned with demonstrating how postal communications and mail-delivered services have been important agencies of national integration and economic development in Canada. To this end, we have attempted to elucidate the social, economic and political forces instrumental in the development of the modern Canadian postal system (Osborne and Goheen 1983; Osborne and Pike 1983, 1984, 1985, 1985a. 1986; Osborne 1985, 1987). The focus of the present paper moves away from the consideration of the development of the Canadian system in an era of progressive, national expansionism to a discussion of the recent, much publicized call for reform, retrenchment, and innovation. Recent years have witnessed a growing dissatisfaction with the postal service and a major shift in government policy. Increasing costs, perceived inefficiencies in the service, labour disputes, and a recalcitrant deficit have occasioned much public complaint and prompted governmental intervention. The advocacy of a system revitalized b y new management and technological innovation is couched within an ideological shift away from the concept of postal services as a public good and national service to a commercial enterprise concerned with fiscal efficiency.
The Media Society: Basic Issues and Controversies
Authors: Raudsepp Enn
Published: May 2017

Although Canadian scholars have made valuable contributions to communications research, few have turned their attention to the problems caused by the dearth of good introductory textbooks reflecting the Canadian experience.
Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume VI
Authors: Jiwani Yasmin , Heyer Paul
Published: May 2017

State of the art anthologies, often in the form of annual reviews, are found in most established disciplines. This volume is part of a biennial series that tries to carry this venerable tradition to the relatively new field of communication studies. Despite our reservations about the editor's assumption that communication is a science - straddling the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, it has the same epistemological flexibility that characterizes anthropology and geography - we are nonetheless pleased at the disciplinary and ideological openness of most of the contributions.
Newsforum
Authors: Jeffrey Liss
Published: May 2017

The CJC has found a new home at McGill, so it seems like an auspicious moment to revive a tradition, and launch NewsForum. In each issue we will devote a few pages to listing events on the horizon which may be of interest to the profession, and reporting on the publication or progress of stimulating research. The objective - as with the CJC itself - is to provide a place, a forum which reflects the diverse efforts of scholars of communications across the country.
Editor's Column
Authors: Robinson Gertrude J.
Published: May 2017

This is the first issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication which is coming to you under the editorship of Liss Jeffrey and myself. To celebrate this change we have initiated a few changes in the lay-out as well as in the contents we will be offering our readers. The lay-out changes, which include single-spacing the Book Review section, were undertaken to maximize the space for research reports and articles. In future we want to offer a minimum of 4-5 articles per issue. We intend to group these articles around common themes. In this way we hope to provide a "frame" through which the diverse topics pursued by the Canadian communications research community can be read. Our NewsForum section in turn is designed as a bulletin-board for the exchange of information of use to professionals and practitioners alike. Please send us your announcements and ideas concerning the ways in which your CJC can serve you better in the months to come. Our quarterly editorial deadlines are; February 1, June 1; September 1 and November 1, with the publication date of the CJC three and a half months later. All papers will continue to undergo the customary review process by the editor and if they fit our format are sent out blind to at least two reviewers.
The Political Economy of Canadian Satellite Broadcasting
Authors: McNulty Jean
Published: May 2017

The purpose of the paper is to argue that through monopolies of knowledge, the development of a domestic satellite system in Canada has been largely controlled by the federal government and the major telephone companies. The consequence of this politico-economic arrangement has been the establishment of a satellite system that has had limited benefit for Canadian society. In particular. the cultural benefits to people living in northern Canada have been questionable -- although much discussed in the policy documents (e.g. CRTC, 1980).
The Regulation of Broadcasting in Canada and the United States: Straws in the Wind
Authors: Zolf Dorothy
Published: May 2017

In an era of deregulation, which may affect the regulation of broadcasting in Canada, it is appropriate to consider whether in any respects the regulation of broadcasting may itself be impugned by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Charter became part of the Constitution of Canada on April 17.1982. Of particular relevance to the regulation of broadcasting is section 2(b), which reads as follows:
Imperialism, Media, and the Good Neighbor: New Deal Foreign Policy and United States Shortwave Broadcasting to Latin America
Authors: Soderlund Walter C.
Published: May 2017

In Imperialism, Media, and the Good Neighbor, Professor Fred Fejes of Florida Atlantic University races and analyzes United States shortwave broadcasting policy towards Latin America during the 1930s and 1940s. While the majority of the book consists of a narrative explanation of this policy, based chiefly on documentary research, to me the book's primary interest is the attempt by the author to integrate the private broadcaster/government rivalry within the modem framework of "Media Imperialism", defined by Fejes as "the process by which modem communications media have operated to create, maintain and expand systems of dominance and dependence on a world scale." (1) For Fejes, communications represents one of a number of factors used by the United States in an integrated way to fashion hegemony over Latin America, and he finds the process whereby shortwave broadcasting was used in this respect not only interesting in its own right, but also illustrative of global United States foreign policy approaches following World War 11.
Current Research in Film: Audiences, Economics and Law
Authors: Nichols Bill
Published: May 2017

No clear principle unifies this work apart from a negative injunction: treatment of specific texts and all the tools of textual analysis shall be left at the door. Since the majority of film scholars have a primary interest in textual analysis, the Current Research series of annuals would seem to be intended to help fill something of a gap in film scholarship and to address a somewhat wider audience of those who study industries, mass media, or social behaviour from a variety of perspectives. This leaves a lot of ground to cover which this volume copes with via a smorgasbord approach. The Ablex letter to reviewers informs us that the volumes will be suitable not only "as texts for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses, but they will be of interest to scholars and industry professionals." Given the range of the articles the letter is no doubt correct.
The Training and Hiring of Journalists
Authors: Russell Nicolas
Published: May 2017

How do journalists acquire the ethical yardsticks which they use throughout their lives? When deciding -- for instance -- whether they can accept gifts from news sources, what criteria do they use? If they believe it's acceptable to break the law in order to obtain documents for a story, on what basis do they make that decision?
Newsforum
Authors: Jeffrey Liss
Published: May 2017

CCA Conference information: The annual Canadian Communication Association conference will be held at the University of Windsor from Monday, June 6th. through Thursday, June 9th. The session coincides with the meeting of the Learned Societies of Canada, which runs from May 28 to June 11th. This is the first time that Windsor. Canada's southernmost university campus, has hosted the Learneds.
Queer Women and the Net Video: Interview with Mary Bryson & Mél Hogan
Authors: Bryson Mary K. , Hogan Mél
Published: May 2017

A short history of an artifact: In the summer of 2005, Mary Bryson made a short video about her Queer Women and the Net research project (http://www.queerville.ca), without ever having met Mél Hogan. There, Mary made illustrative use of Mél's website (http://www.nomorepotlucks.org), where information was posted about various kiss-ins organized in response to homophobic violence in Montreal. Mél got in touch with Mary early in 2006 to request her participation in an interview conducted to fulfill the course requirements for a Masters-level Research Methods class in the Communication Studies Department at Concordia University. Mary didn't just get a set of really interesting questions to think about concerning her research, but unexpectedly met the very person whose activist use of the Internet she had featured just a few months earlier. It seemed only fitting to respond in an appropriately mediated fashion. Mary proposed to make a short, low bandwidth video. Mél showed the video in her class. CJC Editor, Kim Sawchuk was the course instructor, and proposed posting the video to the CJC website. The production values of the video are poor. In lieu of cleaning up the quality of the video, it seemed more sensible to provide a transcript.La courte histoire d'un artefact : Au cours de l'été 2005, sans avoir rencontré Mél Hogan, Mary Bryson a réalisé une courte vidéo sur son projet de recherche Queer Women and the Net (http://www.queerville.ca). Dans cette vidéo, Mary a utilisé le site Internet de Mél (http://www.nomorepotlucks.org), qui contenait de l'information sur plusieurs « kiss-in » organisés pour contrer la violence homophobe à Montréal. Plus tard, au début de 2006, Mél a invité Mary à participer à une entrevue dans le cadre d'un cours de maîtrise sur les méthodes de recherche au Département des Communications à l'Université Concordia. À cette occasion, Mary a non seulement pu identifier plusieurs questions intéressantes à explorer par rapport à ses recherches, mais elle a aussi eu la chance de rencontrer Mél, celle-là même qui était à l'origine de l'utilisation militante de l'Internet qui l'avait intéressée quelques mois auparavant. Mary a alors proposé de réaliser une courte vidéo afin de répondre aux questions de l'entrevue. Mél a montré cette vidéo en classe. Kim Sawchuk, éditrice du CJC et également professeure de ce cours, a proposé d’afficher la vidéo sur le site du CJC. La qualité de la vidéo étant faible, au lieu de tenter de la retravailler, il a semblé plus logique d’en fournir une transcription.
GEOELECTRIC MODELING OF SUPERGENIC MANGANESE OCURRENCE IN HELIODORA REGION, SOUTHERN MINAS GERAIS
Authors: Moreira César Augusto , Reis Samuel Siqueira , Filho Walter Malagutti , Hansen Marco Antônio Fontoura
Published: May 2017

ABSTRACT. This paper discusses the results of the combined application of Electric resistivity and Induced Polarization methods into a mineral occurrence of manganese of supergenic origin, characterized by oxides of manganese and iron with terrain to powdery texture, arising from weathering of spessartite contained in metasediments.Keywords: mineral exploration, oxide, resistivity, chargeability, 3D modeling. RESUMO. Este trabalho discute os resultados de uso combinado dos métodos da Eletrorresistividade e Polarização Induzida numa ocorrência mineral de manganês de origem supergênica, caracterizada por óxidos de...Palavras-chave: exploração mineral, óxido, resistividade, cargabilidade, modelamento 3D.
ADAPTIVE SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION AND FILTERING USING BINOMIAL FILTERS APPLIED TO THE GROUND-ROLL ATTENUATION
Authors: Ariza A. Cristian D. , Porsani Milton J.
Published: May 2017

ABSTRACT. The ground-roll is a type of noise normally present in land seismic data. It strongly harms the signal-to-noise ratio, and interferes in several stages of the seismic data processing, strongly affecting the final quality of the obtained seismic images...Keywords: seismic noise, signal-to-noise ratio, adaptive filters, Burg algorithm, seismic signal decomposition.  RESUMO. O ground-roll é um tipo de ruído normalmente presente nos dados sísmicos terrestres. Ele prejudica muito a razão sinal-ruído e interfere em vários est´ágios do processamento de dados sísmicos, afetando fortemente a qualidade final das imagens sísmicas obtidas...Palavras-chave: ruídos sísmicos, relação sinal-ruído, filtragem adaptativo, algoritmo de Burg, decomposição do sinal sísmico.
RESULTS OF INCORPORATING THE STRATIGRAPHY WITHIN THE EVAPORITIC SEQUENCE INTO THE VELOCITY FIELD FOR RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
Authors: Falcão Livia , Maul Alexandre , Gobatto Fernanda , González Gerardo , González María De Los Ángeles
Published: May 2017

ABSTRACT. There are many ways to build velocity models for seismic migration purposes, either by using inversion algorithms, approximations by constant or variables velocities, including or not including anisotropic parameters, etc...Keywords: amplitude responses, attributes, salt, pre-salt, uncertainties. RESUMO. Atualmente existem muitas alternativas para construção de modelos de velocidades para propósitos de migração sísmica, seja usando algoritmos de inversão ou aproximações por estimativas de velocidades constantes e/ou variáveis, inserindo ou não parâmetros de anisotropia, etc.Palavras-chave: respostas de amplitude, atributos, sal, pré-sal, incertezas.
Critical Assessment of Banking Institutions in South Africa
Authors: Fotso Bakam , Edoun E. I
Published: May 2017

Banks play an important role in a country’s economy through investments, deposits and withdrawals. Many banking products are sold to clients to meet their financial needs and obligations. Their performances are therefore very critical in supporting socio economic development. Financial institutions still facing challenges linked to the lack of financial previsions through the use of financial tool that allows preventing financial distress. Banks are not always well-managed because managers lack capacity and the sound knowledge in dealing effectively with the analysis of risk and return and decision-making. The current study highlights and gives orientations on key performance indicators that bank can use to manage their financial conditions in advance in a sustainable manner. The major objective of this research is to critically assess the South African banks performance using Financial Ratio Analysis (FRA)and descriptive statistics through comparative financial statement analysis form 2010 to 2013 between“ the big four” South African banks. In using correlational analysis, the study aim to establish the link between exogenous and endogenous variables of bank performance. The results showed that FirstRand bank was the best achiever with a higher level of performance following by Standard bank, then Absa and Nedbank. Furthermore, it appears that there is a strong relationship between bank performance and bank size because the volume of assets represents the bigger source of bank incomes. This study opens door to further study including both large and small banks and a comparative analysis between two research methods. The paper is divided into five major sections.
The Effect of Farm Input Subsidy Program on Food Poverty Dynamics in Malawi
Authors: Mulula Griffin , Dunga Hannah M , Dunga Steven Henry
Published: May 2017

As part of poverty alleviation and reduction of food insecurity in Malawi, the Malawi Government launched the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) in 2005/06. The programme is a continuation and expansion of previous subsidy programmes which were designed for the same purpose as the current subsidy programme. Although evaluation studies show that FISP registered success in its first five years, there has been limited research analysing the effectiveness of the programme. This study purposed to investigate how the programme has contributed to food poverty transition during the period 2010 and 2013. The study adopts a Multinomial Logit Model and uses Integrated Household Panel Survey Data of 2010 and 2013 from national statistical office to measure food poverty dynamics between the two periods. Other variables which are expected to influence food poverty dynamics are also explored. Results show that FISP does not increase chances of moving out of food poverty. Rather, education greatly provides higher chances of moving out of food poverty. Between gender that have the same qualification, men have a greater probability of moving a household out of poverty. It was also found that household size has a negatively relationship with the probability of moving out of food poverty. The study recommends that government should strengthen the monitoring, evaluation and audit systems in order to make the FISP programme effective again.
A case for the introduction of numerical fiscal rules in the Serbian Constitution
Authors: Begovic Boris , Marinkovic Tanasije , Paunovic Marko
Published: May 2017

The recommendation of numerical fiscal rules in Serbia, presented in this
paper, is based on the inherent bias of fiscal policy towards expenditure,
and consequently continuous fiscal deficit and excessive sovereign debt. It
is recommended that simple and straightforward numeric fiscal rules should
be introduced into the Serbian Constitution. There should be two cumulative
numerical fiscal rules, the first regarding the ceiling on sovereign debt
and the second regarding the ceiling on net new borrowing. Neither of the
rules may be violated. The ceiling on the debt level should be prescribed by
the Constitution. The ceiling on new net borrowing should depend on the
distance of the sovereign debt from the debt ceiling. An illustrative
example is provided, with a debt ceiling of 60%. However, the Fiscal Council
should specify a specific sovereign debt ceiling as part of the proposed
constitutional amendment.
Mixed, private, and public educational financing regimes: economic growth and income inequality effects
Authors: Trabelsi Salwa
Published: May 2017

The issue of mixed educational financing is rarely evoked in the literature,
although the financial contribution of parents in the public educational
system can be significant. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the
mixed system and public and private ?extreme? systems in terms of economic
growth and social disparity. For developing countries and for heterogeneous
individuals, the mixed system is widely preferred. For homogeneous agents
the public and private systems cannot lead to better economic performance
than the mixed system. The public system always reduces social inequality,
in contrast to the mixed and private systems, which generate the same level
of inequality.
Returns and volatility spillover between Asian equity markets: A wavelet approach
Authors: Kumar Anoop , Kamaiah B.
Published: May 2017

We analyse return and volatility spillover across select Asian equity markets
using wavelet multiple correlation and cross-correlation. For the purpose of
analysis, daily return data is taken from equity markets, viz. Bombay Stock
Exchange SENSEX, Tokyo Stock Exchange NIKKEI 225, Hong Kong Shanghai Index
(HSI), Amman Equity Index, Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), and
Singapore Strait Time Index (STI), from 03/01/2000 to 31/12/2013. The results
show that the Asian markets are co-integrated in the long run. Further, it is
found that a significant part of each market?s volatility pattern at
intraweek scale can be largely explained by own shocks, but in the long run
the volatility dynamics of the market changes as the extent of the spillover
increases. From the wavelet multiple cross-correlation values, two developed
markets, the STI and the HSI, are identified as potential leaders or
followers among the group. From the analysis it is found that the volatility
spillover across the studied markets is relatively low at the high frequency,
implying that there is possibility of diversification at a daily to intraweek
scale. The discrepancies between the markets vanish in the long run; hence a
long-term diversification strategy is best avoided.