Converging Media, Diverging Politics

David Skinner is assistant professor in the Communication Studies Program at York University, Toronto. James R. Compton is assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Mike Gasher is associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Journalism at Concordia University, Montreal.

Converging Media, Diverging Politics brings together important research that moves beyond documenting a crucial historical period; it also bravely and actively engages a politicized vision for a news media system that could do more.

• Chapter 1 Prologue: Has a Free Press Helped to Kill Democracy?Chapter 2 Mapping the ThreadsChapter 3 U.S. Media Policy Then and NowChapter 4 So Much by So Few: Media Policy and Ownership in CanadaChapter 5 Clear Channel:The Poster Child for Everything that's Wrong with ConsolidationChapter 6 Aspergate: Concentration, Convergence, and Censorship in Canadian MediaChapter 7 Hyper-Commercialism and the Media: The Threat to Journalism and Democratic DiscourseChapter 8 News Agency Dominance in International News on the InternetChapter 9 Bourdieu's "Show and Hide" Paradox Reconsidered: Audience Experiences of Convergence in the Canadian MediascapeChapter 10 Reforming Media: Parries and Pirouettes in the U.S. Policy ProcessChapter 11 Angels of the Public Interest: U.S. Media ReformChapter 12 Journalism Education in the Posthistorical UniversityChapter 13 The Alternative Communication Movement in Quebec's MediascapeChapter 14 Canadian Cyberactivism in the Cycle of Counterglobalization StrugglesChapter 15 Turning the Tide