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Dissertation Information for David Skinner

NAME:
- David Skinner

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Communication

SCHOOL:
- [No School Recorded] () (1997)

ADVISORS:
- None

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected

Title: A system divided: A political economy of Canadian broadcasting

Abstract: "Since the inception of broadcasting in Canada, policy makers, scholars, and social activists have wrestled with the problem of foregrounding the representation of Canadian ways of life--or Canadian ""culture""--in broadcast programming. Yet with every technological advance, every regulatory adjustment, the difficulties in meeting this goal seem to multiply. Employing a critical political economy of mass communication, this work locates this problem in the institutional structure of regulation. It illustrates that the institutional relationships deployed in broadcast regulation are derived from an historical set of relationships between the Canadian state and private capital and that, through time, these relationships have come to be expressed in the regulatory apparatus that gives form to the broadcasting system.

Generally focusing on broadcasting in Anglophone Canada, the growth of the system is examined in several historical periods, ranging from the 1920's through the 1990's. In each of these periods, the process of regulation is seen as engendering a dynamic web of relationships between the state's regulatory instruments, domestic private enterprise, foreign capital, and technological innovation--relationships that, taken together, produce a set circumstances that constrain Canadian cultural expression within the system. Because the difficulties of creating space for the representation of Canadian culture in the broadcasting system are demonstrated as running from the institutional heart of the Canadian state, no easy answers to this problem are forwarded. However, the analysis does point to some avenues of action for realizing the public purposes for which the system was founded."

MPACT Scores for David Skinner

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