Cross-Media Ownership and Democratic Practice in Canada: Content Sharing and the Impact of New Media

摘要

It is possible to get almost to the end of Cross-Media Ownership and Democratic Practice in Canada: Content Sharing and the Impact of New Media without noticing that there is very little in this book about the effects of big media on democracy. Partly, this appears to be the result of a reluctance on the part of the authors to directly engage with concerns about big media, the news, and democracy-all of which date back to Walter Lippmann (1889) and have travelled more or less intact and unaddressed from print and broadcast to the Internet Mostly, however, the book leaves the impression of a group of researchers blindsided by events, unable to start over, and unwilling to let go of or reinterpret their research.