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Preface; Section I European Origins: Orality, Literacy, and Print; Walter J. Ong: Some Psychodynamics of Orality; Eric A. Havelock: From The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences; Elizabeth L. Eisenstein: The Rise of the Reading Public; Gerald Friesen: Interpreting Aboriginal Cultures; Section II Time, Space, Culture, Nation; Harold A. Innis: From Empire and Communications; George Grant: Thinking about Technology; Marshall McLuhan: Radio: The Tribal Drum; Maurice Charland: Technological Nationalism; James W. Carey: A Cultural Approach to Communication; Section III Postal Systems, Telecommunications, and the Internet; Brian Osborne and Robert Pike: Lowering ’the Walls of Oblivion’: The Revolution in Postal Communications in Central Canada, 1851-1911; Dwayne Winseck: Back to the Future: Telecommunications, Online Information Services, and Convergence from 1840 to 1910; Michèle Martin: Communication and Social Forms: The Development of the Telephone, 1876-1920 Communication and Social Forms: The Development of the Telephone, 1876-1920; Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray: From the World Brain to the World Wide Web; Heather Menzies: Behind the Silicon Curtain: Perception Management and the Adjustment Agenda; Section IV Print Mass Media; Jeffrey L. McNairn: ’The Most Powerful Engine of the Human Mind’: The Press and Its Readers; Minko Sotiron: Public Myth and Private Reality; Russell Johnston: Newspapers, Advertising, and the Rise of the Agency, 1850-1900; Daniel J. Robinson: Marketing Gum, Making Meanings: Wrigley in North America, 1890-1930; Peter Desbarats: The Special Role of Magazines in the History of Canadian Mass Media and National Development; Valerie J. Korinek: ’Mrs Chatelaine’ vs ’Mrs Slob’: Contestants, Correspondents, and the Chatelaine Community in Action, 1961-1969; Section V Broadcast Media; Mary Vipond: ’Who is to Pay for Broadcasting?’; Robert W. McChesney: Graham Spry and Public Broadcasting; Jeff A. Webb: Constructing Community and Consumers: Joseph R. Smallwood’s Barrelman Radio Program; David Hogarth: Public-Service Broadcasting as a Modern Project: A Case Study of Early Public-Affairs Television in Canada; Paul Rutherford: ’And Now a Word from Our Sponsor’; Ira Wagman: Rock the Nation: MuchMusic, Cultural Policy, and the Development of English-Canadian Music Video Programming, 1979-1984; Section VI Cultural Industries: Film and Sound Recording; Zoë Druick: The National Film Board and Government; Kay Armatage: From The Girl from God’s Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema; Ted Magder: A ’Featureless’ Film Policy: Culture and the Canadian State; Will Straw: The English-Canadian Recording Industry since 1970; David J. Jackson: Peace, Order, and Good Songs: Popular Music and English-Canadian Culture; Appendix : Government Documents; Report of the Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting; From Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in Arts, Letters, and Sciences; Contributors; Index

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