This article proposes a framework for the analysis of the role of ethnic minorities in Canadian broadcasting. It takes into consideration the intersection of American, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian television output, as well as the divergent…
By using examples taken from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Toronto Star, and Ming Pao, this article compares the coverage presented by mainstream broadcast news media and their online counterparts, as well as the coverage provided by a…
This study investigates (1) how immigrant consumers change their media consumption when they move across cultural boundaries and (2) whether media exposure relates to consumers' acculturation of the new social norms. A total of 938 respondents from…
A number of studies show modern Chinese newspapers appeared in China and some other countries with sizable Chinese immigrant populations almost simultaneously. Some of the earliest Chinese newspapers were actually published overseas …
This dissertation considers how the party-state of the People’s Republic of China has been mobilizing various forms of interpellation in an attempt to sustain a continuous imagination of a particular community defined on the terms of a shared…
Based on research conducted with Éric George on Aboriginal media in Canada and on various theoretical works dealing with the public sphere and informational activism, the author addresses the issue of Aboriginal people and the media. This research…
Globalization has challenged the traditional conceptualization of the sense of belonging between people and places. This article takes up social theorist Ulrich Beck’s notion of place polygamy as a theoretical departure to understand immigrants and…