Double book launch: Media Divides and Digital Solidarities
Media@Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ is organizing a book launch to celebrate two releases: Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada, and Digital Solidarities, Communication Policy and Multi-stakeholder Global Governance: The Legacy of the World Summit on the Information Society.
The book launch will be held on Thursday, 2 December, from 7 to 8:30 pm in Room W220, in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾, Arts Building, 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal.
(Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010) is written and edited by Media@Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ Director and , postdoctoral fellow at Ryerson University, with contributions by , , , and . The book presents an overview of the democratic deficits in Canada's media and communications policy and formulates recommendations for the future.
(New York: Peter Lang, 2010) is written by , Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ doctoral student and . The book examines the actors, structures and themes that shaped the (WSIS), with a particular focus on the role played by civil society. The book investigates how civil society self-organization has continued post-WSIS through the formation of the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and other policymaking venues, and reflects on what the WSIS experience reveals about the challenges and opportunities embedded in the notion of multi-stakeholder governance and its implications for understanding global communication.
To learn more about both books, order them, and view a read-only PDF of Digital Solidarities, please clink on link below.