David Taras is a professor and Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University.

• Acknowledgements 1. The New Architecture of Media PowerUnderstanding Media ShockMedia Change and Canadian Public SpacesLooking Ahead 2. Identity and Citizenship in Canada.caThe Unlikely CountryThe Public Participation Scorecard Turbulent Times: the Effects of Economic and Media Change 3. The Ownership Juggernaut The Powers That Be The Power of the Powerful Corporate Rules: Values, Ideology, and the News Democracy Insurance 4. Me-media and Political Connectedness (or Not): Cable, Blogs, and YouTube The New Debate about Media Effects The Cable Explosion The Blog Hierarchy YouTube and Video Politics The Politics of Me-media 5. Connecting and Disconnecting on the Social Media Frontier Is Facebook Your Friend? "Put Down Twitter and Slowly Back Away?" Welcome to the New World 6. Falling Stars: The Future of Newspapers and Conventional Broadcasting "Every Newspaper Reader That Dies Leaves No Heir" The Great Canadian Television Crisis Music and Radio: Hits and Misses Are the Traditional Media Doomed to Extinction? 7. The Ever-shrinking World of Public Broadcasting Triple Jeopardy: Budget Cuts, Hockey Night in Canada, and Big TV Re-imagining the CBC 8. Are Journalists and Politicians Abandoning the Public? Blind Spots, Cutbacks, and the Decline of Political Reporting Totally Scripted: Avoid, Bypass, and Stick to Your Message Nowhere to Hide: The Value and Politics of Debates The Last Disconnect 9. Finding Citizenship in the Digital Mosaic It's Time to Do Better Bibliography Index

David Taras is a professor and Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University.

• Acknowledgements 1. The New Architecture of Media PowerUnderstanding Media ShockMedia Change and Canadian Public SpacesLooking Ahead 2. Identity and Citizenship in Canada.caThe Unlikely CountryThe Public Participation Scorecard Turbulent Times: the Effects of Economic and Media Change 3. The Ownership Juggernaut The Powers That Be The Power of the Powerful Corporate Rules: Values, Ideology, and the News Democracy Insurance 4. Me-media and Political Connectedness (or Not): Cable, Blogs, and YouTube The New Debate about Media Effects The Cable Explosion The Blog Hierarchy YouTube and Video Politics The Politics of Me-media 5. Connecting and Disconnecting on the Social Media Frontier Is Facebook Your Friend? "Put Down Twitter and Slowly Back Away?" Welcome to the New World 6. Falling Stars: The Future of Newspapers and Conventional Broadcasting "Every Newspaper Reader That Dies Leaves No Heir" The Great Canadian Television Crisis Music and Radio: Hits and Misses Are the Traditional Media Doomed to Extinction? 7. The Ever-shrinking World of Public Broadcasting Triple Jeopardy: Budget Cuts, Hockey Night in Canada, and Big TV Re-imagining the CBC 8. Are Journalists and Politicians Abandoning the Public? Blind Spots, Cutbacks, and the Decline of Political Reporting Totally Scripted: Avoid, Bypass, and Stick to Your Message Nowhere to Hide: The Value and Politics of Debates The Last Disconnect 9. Finding Citizenship in the Digital Mosaic It's Time to Do Better Bibliography Index

David Taras is a professor and Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University.

• Acknowledgements 1. The New Architecture of Media PowerUnderstanding Media ShockMedia Change and Canadian Public SpacesLooking Ahead 2. Identity and Citizenship in Canada.caThe Unlikely CountryThe Public Participation Scorecard Turbulent Times: the Effects of Economic and Media Change 3. The Ownership Juggernaut The Powers That Be The Power of the Powerful Corporate Rules: Values, Ideology, and the News Democracy Insurance 4. Me-media and Political Connectedness (or Not): Cable, Blogs, and YouTube The New Debate about Media Effects The Cable Explosion The Blog Hierarchy YouTube and Video Politics The Politics of Me-media 5. Connecting and Disconnecting on the Social Media Frontier Is Facebook Your Friend? "Put Down Twitter and Slowly Back Away?" Welcome to the New World 6. Falling Stars: The Future of Newspapers and Conventional Broadcasting "Every Newspaper Reader That Dies Leaves No Heir" The Great Canadian Television Crisis Music and Radio: Hits and Misses Are the Traditional Media Doomed to Extinction? 7. The Ever-shrinking World of Public Broadcasting Triple Jeopardy: Budget Cuts, Hockey Night in Canada, and Big TV Re-imagining the CBC 8. Are Journalists and Politicians Abandoning the Public? Blind Spots, Cutbacks, and the Decline of Political Reporting Totally Scripted: Avoid, Bypass, and Stick to Your Message Nowhere to Hide: The Value and Politics of Debates The Last Disconnect 9. Finding Citizenship in the Digital Mosaic It's Time to Do Better Bibliography Index