Media @ McGill 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 7-8.30 pm in W220, in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Arts Building, 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal. ()
(Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010) is written and edited by Media @ McGill Director Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern, postdoctoral fellow at Ryerson University, with contributions by William J. McIver Jr., Laura J. Murray, Seán Ó Siochrú, and Leslie Regan Shade. 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 Marc Raboy, McGill doctoral student Normand Landry and Jeremy Shtern. 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. You can , and also view a read-only pdf version of the book, attached below.
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