Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada

This volume is the result of a research project initiated by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Law Commission of Canada calling for an examination of the principles and legal instruments that might be needed to supplement the principle of freedom of expression in pursuit of democratic communication in the contemporary political, economic, and social contexts of Canada. Editors Raboy (art history and communication studies, McGill U., Canada) and Shtern communication and design, Ryerson U., Canada) present ten essays that first provide historical context and a conceptual overview of the idea of communication rights and then, in separate chapters, assess how communication rights relates to media, access, the Internet, privacy, and copyright. The volume concludes with policy recommendations and considerations of alternative frameworks. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Marc Raboy is professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Jeremy Shtern is a Fonds quebecois de la recherche sur la societe et la culture (FQRSC) postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University.