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Canadian Mass Media, 2002.
Introduction to eight articles on Canadian mass media with a focus on the degree to which it is influenced by outside factors.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 106.95
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Summary: This paper introduces a variety of published work pertaining to subjects of the Canadian mass media. A tendency that is noted, in different places, is that of Canadians assuming that their media are free in comparison with the mass media influences of the United States, or the United Kingdom, for example. However, as is mentioned, the Canadian media seem to be shaped by their environment, and the environment beyond Canada to a significant degree.
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The Canadian Media, 2002.
Examines three different opinions on the reasons behind the decline in Canada's media.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper presents three alternative, although linked, explanations for the decline in quality of the Canadian media in the twenty-first century. Roger Bird argues that news and information are being replaced with irrelevant infotainment. David Taras argues that a 'right-wing media infrastructure' dominates while Paul Nesbitt-Larking traces it to the inherently corporate structure of the industry itself.
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The Media and the Americanization of Canadian Culture, 2006.
A discussion regarding how Canadian culture is being Americanized.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 9 sources, $ 89.95
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The following assignment discusses the Americanization of Canada through the media. The paper argues that because American media products dominate in Canada, that Canadian culture is being Americanized. The argument looks at culture, symbolize, signs and the role of media.
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"There has been a great deal of debate on the effects of the media upon culture. Many researchers argue that the media is contributing to a process of cultural homogenization. For example, in "Ecumenical America" Orlando Patterson argues, The modern process of global cultural interaction has repeatedly been subjected to two criticisms. The first is that it threatens the diversity and particularism of the world's cultures, resulting in a deadening homogenization of the human cultural experience. The other is that this growing global uniformity results from the dominance of America's culture --that, in effect, global culture is nothing more than American cultural imperialism (Patterson 103)."
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Globalization and the Media, 2008.
An analysis of how the Canadian media is influenced by its multiculturalism and globalization.
1,828 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper examines the impact of globalization on Canada and the Canadian media. It argues that the media is responsible for carrying cultural influences, but that these influences are mostly coming from the United States and, to a limited extent, there is a presence of other cultures visible within the media in Canada. The paper also provides some examples of the multiculturalism that is evident in the Canadian media.
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"In Canada cultural influences are carried through the media but also with the different cultural communities in the Canadian society. The influences in the media are largely coming from the USA, and this is the case not only in Canada but also in most countries of the world. Due to Canadian multiculturalism, there is also some limited influence on the Canadian media from other, non-western cultures that now constitute an important part of Canada and its population. Although one can exist without the other it is unlikely that that will be the case. Overall, the larger effect of this case is that the community cultural influences can serve as a balance against the threat homogenizing of culture, and that globalization itself has a great potential for cultural influences that have so far largely been restricted to the export of US culture worldwide."
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The Media and Politics of Sports, 2002.
A look at the relationship between Canadian media and sports culture with a focus on the control of the national hockey league.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper will first consider the history of the relation between media and sports culture. Then the paper will examine the more recent changes in media corporations, where large media conglomerations now manage sports teams, and the impact these control systems have on the national hockey league. In conclusion, this paper will re-draw attention to the exclusive nature of hickey as "culture," and indicate possible changes in media representations which might elaborate Canadian notions of identity, and culture.
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Media Representations of Violent Crime, 2002.
Looks at the Canadian media representation of violent crime and how its bias produces public fear of the young male, ethnic population.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 44.95
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This essay analyzes Canadian newspaper headlines and articles as a way to examine the role of the media in constructing the content of public perceptions of violent crime. This essay argues that the media produce public fear of racial, ethnic, and youth-identified males through an over-representation of isolated incidents. Sensationalization of violent crime has the effect of narrating violence into stories, ignoring the value of news information. As such, the media invents public personae of gang-related violence, immigrant offenders, and violent youth, all of which are based on bias, not fact.
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Media and Social Values, 2006.
The paper researches the strengths and limitations of libertarianism and the social responsibility theory, using the Canadian media as an example.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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The paper discusses how there can be little question that the media plays a major role in not only the transmission of the "news" but also in the transmission of social values and conventions. With this in mind, the paper explores the strengths and weaknesses of the libertarian theory as it applies to the media. Moving onward, the paper also closely examines the "social responsibility" theory of the press and outlines the ways in which this theory offers a healthful understanding of the role of the media.
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Globalization and Democracy in Media, 2006.
A look at how globalization is effecting democracy in Canadian media.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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Creating a culture of entertainment, advertisers are responsible for turning news into more of a commodity, enabling outlets to piggyback editorial content onto advertising sales through softer news relying more on celebrities, Hollywood blockbusters, food, and entertainment. This essay discusses in brief the effects of globalization on democracy in media in Canada.
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"As Lorimer and Gasher argue, the first and foremost target of globalization is the mass media, creating a so-called "new media" bowing more exclusively to profit motive. With fewer investigative reports dedicated to protecting the consumer and society, this new and increasingly commercial model is driven by "its own internal logic," which essentially requires it to be driven (as opposed to supported) by advertisers (Lorimer and Gasher 278)."
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Reproducing Stereotypes, 2002.
Discusses representations of women in the Canadian mass media, focusing on stereotyping.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 9 sources, $ 89.95
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In spite of the advancement of the Feminist movement, the mass media in North America can seem very slow to show any confirmed gender equality. As this paper reveals in different examples, women are rarely the center of media presentations and when they are, they tend to be stereotyped. Far more often, women appear as 'objects' in relation to what are male stories or themes, in media materials that are clearly meant for male audiences. The subjects that are discussed in this paper point to the very important intersection of issues of feminism and those of race and culture.
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Canadian Health Care, 2002.
Explores the alternative and mainstream medias in respect to Canadian Health Care and privatization.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the alternative and mainstream medias in terms of covering the crisis in Canadian health care. There is a strong writing bias in favor of the alternative media as being more impartial in terms of privatization. .
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Astral Media, 2005.
This paper discusses Astral Media, one of the major media companies in Canada.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 7 sources, $ 115.95
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In this article the writer analyzes the Canadian media company Astral Media. The writer explains that this company is one of the leading media companies in Canada. The writer examines the Astral Media company that owns, among other media properties, television networks and radio stations.
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"Astral Media is one of the leading media companies in Canada, and the company reaches the public by means of a combination of highly targeted media properties in specialty, pay and pay-per-view television, radio, and outdoor advertising. Astral Media is currently the largest operator of English and French-language specialty, pay, and pay-per-view television services. The company owns nineteen network licenses, entirely or in a partnership. The company and its television networks also stand as the largest private sector supporter of Canadian feature films. Astral Media also owns 24 radio stations, including 16 French-language FM stations in Quebec.
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Canada's First Nations and the Mass Media, 2007.
This paper analyzes the representation of Canada's Aboriginals in Canadian newspapers.
1,267 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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The paper focuses on the time when Elijah Harper's single vote in Manitoba blocked the constitutional reform package known as Meech Lake. The paper explains how Harper's action elevated the concerns and interests of Canada's First Nations to prominence on the Canadian political scene. The paper then examines Thomas Walkom's article "A Tragic Death Puts Meech into Perspective" that highlights the Canadian mass media's view of the First Nations of Canada. The paper shows how the mass media's perspective is a complex one which, at one and the same time, mingles respect and sympathy for peoples of the First Nations with a view that these peoples are inevitably "wards" of the Canadian state.
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"Mass media analysis is invariably complex in that media messages are often conveyed on more than one level in a mass media text. Consider, for example, Thomas Walkom's moving article "A Tragic Death Puts Meech into Perspective" from the Toronto Star. This article is profoundly disturbing in its depiction of the tragic death of a young Aboriginal woman - Noreen Munro - on the streets of Toronto where she lived homeless, while the constitutional debate known as Meech Lake continued. While this article is moving in describing the tragic end of this young woman's life, it is unusual in how Walkom suggests that this death suggests how pointless are the constitutional talks then underway in Ottawa. He concludes that such conferences should be limited to one in a century (Walkom)."
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Media, Policy and Cultural Identity in Canada, 2006.
A look at the measures undertaken by the Canadian government in order to maintain and promote a unique Canadian cultural identity.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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One of the most fascinating aspects of the Canadian cultural identity is the degree to which government policy and free enterprise economic principles converge and frequently collide in the field of the mass media. In large measure this is a consequence of Canada's geographic position next door to the world's last remaining superpower and predominant popular culture engine, the United States. This paper explores how the Canadian government, in order to maintain cultural distinctiveness in terms of national identity, has adopted a range of policies that promote the Canadian identity in the mass media and restrict the reach of foreign media and foreign media ownership.
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Japanese Canadians in Canada, 2004.
The paper examines the treatment of Japanese Canadians by the Canadian government during and after World War II.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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The paper contends that the treatment of Japanese Canadians by the Canadian government during and after World War II was deplorable. The paper then discusses how the Canadian government acknowledged the racist character of these policies in 1988 and offered redress to the Japanese Canadian population.
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"Japanese Canadians during the Second World War were forced to contend with a decades-old torrent of racial discrimination that culminated in their internment and forced labor by the Canadian government. The treatment of Japanese Canadians during this period appears particularly cruel-even sinister-when one considers that of the Canadians evacuated from the Pacific Coast of Canada, most were Canadian-born and naturalized Canadian citizens."
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Canadian Health, 2005.
This paper compares and contrasts Canadians' health and the Canadian health care system with that of other OECD countries.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 62.95
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The paper points out that in this context it must be acknowledged that cross country comparisons of statistics may sometimes produce more questions than answers. The paper offers an example: If we compare Canada's maternal mortality statistics with those of Norway for 2000 we find that while Canada only had 6 deaths per 100, Norway had 16. The paper considers that Norway's Scandinavian neighbour only had 2 per 100,000, together with the fact that there appears to be no obvious parallel with infant mortality, health expenditure, or number of doctors and therefore must admit that this statistic stands as a puzzling anomaly.
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"A comparison and contrast analysis of the health of Canadians and the Canadian health care system with that of other OECD countries is necessarily qualified by the differences in definition and approach to health care issues as a consequence of distinct wellness and health care cultures in different countries. To cite just one example, with respect to acute and long-term bed, the OECD report Health at a Glance: OECD Indicators 2003, notes that caution is required in making cross-country comparisons of long-term care beds."
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