Published in January 1974, Smoke Signals to Satellites provides a summary of the activities and achievements of the Alberta Native Communications Society. The report summarizes the administration and organization of the society, as well as the…
The article examines the role that ethnic media has played in Canadian nation-building. Particular focus is given to how multilingual media offers readers information in one's language of comfort, as well as access to ethno-specific and other…
This dissertation focuses on Chinese students, scholars and professionals (CSSPs) outside China and investigates how the computer network-based media helped weaving up an otherwise widely scattered group of people into a non-geographically based…
Ethnic media, defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (for the ethnic program specifically) as “one, in any language, that is specifically directed to any culturally or racially distinct group other than one that is…
This study explores diasporic Asian young people's engagement with the recent wave of Korean pop culture, also known as the Korean Wave, in Canada. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted in Toronto and Vancouver, the study examines how…
This article presents an overview of the literature on language diversity, linguistic human rights, and language renewal; examines some representative Web sites dedicated to Aboriginal languages,' and explores possible uses of the Internet in…
Often classified as ethnic press or immigrant press, hundreds of Chinese-language newspapers have been published in North America since 1850s. This paper presents the preliminary results of a comprehensive study of this unique genre of publication,…