CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canwest, Bell Media, Technology Education
16 Oct 2011
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Technological convergence: different media merge into a new technology. Economic convergence: corporate mergers, consolidation of industry, mult- media companies. Competition between cable companies and phone companies. Creation of national champions : multimedia corporations: ctvglobemedia, canwest global communications, this allows large companies to: 1993: department of communications broken into new departments. 1976: canadian government adds telecommunications regulations to mandate the crtc. Crtc: canadian radio-television and telecommunications commission: the industry increasingly gets closer together. Divide between people who have access to technologies and those who do not: there is different access to these technologies depending on where people are located (poor versus well-off) Industrialized countries (such as canada, the us, britain) have greater access to. Non-industrialized countries (such as latin america, africa, south east asia) have less access to technologies. Rise of media is linked to globalization. Creation of international communities through trade agreements, political alliances, communications technologies. The world itself becomes much smaller, because people can interact across the world easily.
