MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Canadian Cultural Protectionism, Kondratiev Wave, Media Consumption
Document Summary
Media policy will be key in ensuring public participation and representation. The social dimensions of media and communication: public policy. Provides a set of rules and regulations governing the way information and media products are created and consumed. Includes libel laws, copyright, advertising and privacy legislation. Policy has been key to the production of national media in canada: creating a place for canada. It is much cheaper for canadian broadcasters to buy foreign programming that it is to product their own. In quebec, a range of cultural factors allow homegrown products to compete successfully with foreign fare. Public policy shapes the ground on which media products are created: ownership. Canadian ownership and content regulations have been used to prevent canadian media companies and markets from becoming simple extensions of their american cousins. No media industry in canada is governed exclusively by free-market economics. Private ownership is the dominant ownership form within the media system: professionalism.
