ROBERT ELWOOD BABE
CURRICULUM VITAE
(revised 02/2011)
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Address: |
Faculty
of Media and Information Studies
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Degrees: |
Ph.D. Michigan State
University, Economics, 1972; M.A. University of Western Ontario, Economics, 1968 B.A. University of Western Ontario, Economics, 1966
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Honours: |
External Evaluator, Grant MacEwan University, Bachelor of Communication Studies, Edmonton, Alberta, April 2010 Expert UNESCO UIS Media Statistics Expert Group Meeting San Jose, Costa Rica Nov 17-19, 2009
First holder of the Jean
Monty/BCE Chair in Media Studies
Panel at Canadian Communication Association Annual Meetings honouring Canadian Communication Thought, “Investigating Canadian Communication Thought: A Discussion with Robert E. Babe”, Plenary Session, Annual Meetings, Canadian Communication Association, Toronto, Ontario, May 29, 2002
Nominated for Canada Chair in Communication and Social Justice, University of Windsor, 2001
Participant in Heritage Canada Roundtable on Media Ownership, Hull, Quebec, June 1, 2000
Winner, 1998 OCUFA Award for excellence in teaching, May 1999
Winner, Best Professor Award, Communication Students’ Association, University of Ottawa, 1998-99, 1996-97, 1997- 98, 1998-99
Appointed,
Adjunct professor, Communication Studies,
Appointed, Adjunct Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, March 1998 to December 2001
Cited in Maclean’s Magazine 1998 Guide to Canadian Universities for excellence in teaching
Cited in Sara Borin’s The Real Guide to Canadian Universities (Key Porter Books, 1994), for excellence in teaching
Participant, Federal Roundtable on Environment and Development, Ottawa, June 1993
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Employment History: |
Professor
Jean
Monty/BCE Chair in Media Studies
Professor,
Department of Communication Studies
Professor,
Department of Communication
Associate
Professor, Department of Communication
Associate
Professor, Department of Communication,
Government
of Canada, Department of Communications, Chief,
Assistant
Professor, Department of Economics
Assistant Professor, Department of Television and Radio, Michigan State University, June 1972 to March 1973
Instructor, Michigan State University, Department of Television and Radio, January 1972 to June 1972
Concordia University, Sessional Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies, “Media Economics” course in the Masters Program -- 1983, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997
Carleton University, Sessional Lecturer, part time, School of Journalism, January to April 1982
University of Ottawa, Department of Communication, Sessional Lecturer, part time, January 1980 to July 1983
McGill
University, Graduate Program in Communication,
Carleton
University, School of Public Administration,
Michigan
State University, Department of Television and Radio,
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Consultant to the following: |
Campus Alberta Quality Council, External Evaluator, Grant MacEwan University’s Bachelor of Communication Studies Program, Edmonton, Alberta, April 26 – 27, 2010.
UNESCO Institute for statistics (UIS) Expert Group Meeting, San José- Costa Rica Nov 17-19, 2009
St Boniface College (University of Manitoba), distance learning module on communication for M.A. Program, “Canadian Communication Thought,” May, 2001
City of Nepean (Ontario); content analysis of newspaper coverage of municipal restructuring, and opinion polling of citizens’ attitudes toward municipal restructuring, October -November 1999
Canadian Encyclopedia, communications adviser, fall/winter, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1999-2000
City of Nepean (Ontario), pesticide use survey, fall 1997
Leicester University, England, curriculum development of teaching module for distance learning, MA Program in Mass Communication, fall/winter, 1996-97
Broadcasters’ Rights Agency, May-June 1995
Carleton University, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, advisor on proposed Ph.D. Program in Mass Communication, September 1991
Province of Ontario, Management Board of Cabinet, December 1986
Federal
Department of Communications, intermittent,
Centre for Communication, Culture and Society, Carleton University, July 1985
Canadian
Conference of the Arts, August - September,
Attorney
General, Province of British Columbia,
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, December 1976, April 1982 to September 1983
Canadian Encyclopedia, adviser on communication entries, May to August 1984 Canadian Unity Information Office, Aug. to Sept, 1984
National Film Board of Canada, May-June 1983
Science Council of Canada, March to May 1980
Gowling and Henderson, Barristers and Solicitors, intermittent, May 1978 to November 1981
Canadian Broadcasting League, intermittent, February 1980 to August 1982
Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, intermittent,
Government of Canada, Secretary of State Department, intermittent, June 1977 to September 1980
Government
of Canada, Director of Investigation and
Economic Council of Canada, January 1977 to June 1977
Province
of Manitoba,
Department of Consumer
Michigan
State University,
Television and Radio
Ministry of Transportation and Communication, Province of Ontario, November to December 1976
Consumers’ Association of Canada, intermittent, 1973 to 1976 City of East Lansing, Michigan, December 1972
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PUBLICATIONS AND
RESEARCH: |
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Books: |
Media, Structures, Power: The Robert E. Babe Collection, edited by Edward Comor, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, spring 2011.
Cultural Studies and Political Economy: Toward a New Integration. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2009; paperback edition 2010
Culture of Ecology: Reconciling Economics and Environment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006
Canadian Communication Thought: Ten Foundational Writers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000
Communication and the Transformation of Economics. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995
Information and Communication in Economics, edited. Boston, London, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994
Telecommunications in Canada: Technology, Industry and Government, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990
Broadcasting Policy and Copyright Law: An Analysis of a Cable Rediffusion Right, co-authored. Ottawa: Federal Department of Communications, 1984
Canadian Television Broadcasting Structure, Performance and Regulation. Ottawa: Supply and Services for the Economic Council of Canada, 1979
Cable Television and Telecommunications in Canada. East Lansing: Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Michigan State University, 1975
Current Book Project:
Meet Harold Innis, for Lexington Books.
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Book Chapters:
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“Culture Industry/ Consciousness Industry: Adorno, Smythe and the Political Economy of Media and Communication.” Book chapter for Frankfurt School Revisited, ed. David Berry, London: Ashgate Publishing; first edit submitted Dec 2010. “Comment on ‘The Pathologies of Freedom.’” Chapter for book, Interdisciplinar Economics: Kenneth E. Boulding’s Engagement in the Sciences, edited by Wilfred Dolfsma and Stefan Kesting. London: Routledge, 2011.
“Newspaper Discourses on Environment,” in Filtering the News, ed. Jeff Klaehn, Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2006.
“Canadian Critical Communication,” with James Winter, in Radical Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy, edited by John Theobold and David Berry, Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2006.
“Preface,” in Myles Ruggles, Automating Interaction, Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press, 2005, pp. vii - xiv.
“Innis, Environment and New Media.” In Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade, eds., Seeking Convergence in Policy and Practice: Communications in the Public Interest, Vol 2, Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2004, pp. 383 – 412
“McLuhan and Canadian Communication Thought,” In John Moss and Linda Morra, eds., At The Speed of Light there Is Only Illumination, A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004, pp. 37 – 62.
“The Political Economy of Information and Communication,” in An Institutionalist Approach to Public Utilities Regulation, Warren J. Samuels and Edythe Miller, Michigan State University Press, 2002.
“The ‘Information Economy,’ Economics, and Ecology,” in Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions & Interventions, edited by Robin Mansell, Rohan Samarajiva, and Amy Mahan, Delft University Press, 2002.
“Convergence and Divergence: Telecommunications, Old and New,” in Karen Adams and William F. Birdsall, editors, Understanding Telecommunications and Public Policy: A Guide for Libraries, 1998, Ottawa and Halifax: Canadian Library Association and School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University, pp. 15 – 33
“Understanding the Cultural Ecology Model,” in Cultural Ecology, edited by Danielle Cliche, London: International Institute of Communications, 1997, pp. 1 - 23
“Convergence and New Technologies,” in Cultural Industries in Canada, edited by Michael Dorland, Toronto: Lorimer, 1996, pp. 283 – 307
“Canada,” in Media Ownership in an Age of Convergence. London: International Institute of Communications, 1996, pp. 23-46
“The Place of Information in Economics,” Information and Communication in Economics, Robert E. Babe, editor, Boston, London, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, pp. 41 – 67
“Neoclassicism and Political Economy,” Mediating Culture: The Politics of Representation. Kosta Gouliamos and William Anselmi, editors. Montreal, New York: Guernica, 1994, pp. 13-45
“Communication: Blindspot of Western Economics,” Illuminating the Blindspots. V. Mosco, J. Wasko and M. Pendakur, editors. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1993, pp. 15 - 39
“Emergence and Development of Canadian Telecommunications: Dispelling the Myths,” Communication Canada. Rowland Lorimer and Donald Wilson, editors. Toronto: Kagan and Woo, 1988, 58 – 79
“Copyright and Culture,” The Strategy of Canadian Culture in the 21st Century. Ian Parker et al, editors. Toronto: Innis Foundation, 1988, pp. 57 – 65
“Regulation and Incentives: Two Sides of any Policy,” in Canadian Broadcasting: The Challenge of Change, Colin Hoskins and Stuart McFadyen, editors. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1986 “Comment,” Cultures in Collision. New York: Praeger, 1984, pp. 178 – 180
“Information Industries and Economic Analysis: Policy Makers Beware,” Proceedings From the Tenth Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Oscar Gandy et al, eds. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1983, pp. 123 – 135; reprinted in Michael Gurevitch and Mark Levy (editors), Mass Communication Review Yearbook, Vol. 5. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1985, pp. 535 – 546
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Scholarly Journals: |
Innis and the Emergence of Canadian Communication/Media Studies.” Global Media Journal—Canadian Edition, 2008 <http://www.gmj.uottawa.ca/inaugural_babe_e.html>
“Harold Innis and the Paradox of Press Freedom.” Fifth Estate On-Line, May 2007 <http://www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk/criticsm/haroldinnisandtheparadox.html>
"Innis and the News" Javnost: The Public 16(6), 2006: 43-56
“Poster Meets Innis: Poststructuralism and the Possibility of Political Economy.” Co-authored with Edward Comor. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 16 (Fall) 2006: 5–21
“Political Economy of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (as Before)”, Fast Capitalism 2:1, 2006 <http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/babe.html>
“Harold Innis and the Press,” Fifth Estate Online, August 2006 <http://www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk/comment/haroldinnisandthepress.html>
“Political Economy, Cultural Studies and Postmodernism,” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 15, Spring 2006
“The Dialectic of Information,” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 13, spring 2005, pp. 5 – 17.
“Innis, Saul, Suzuki,” Topia: The Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Spring 2004, pp. 11 – 20.
“Money and Culture,” Topia: The Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Spring 2003, pp. 3 – 13.
“Foundations of Canadian Communication Thought,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 25(1), winter 2000, pp. 19 - 37
“Red Toryism: The Communication Philosophy of George Grant,” Journal of Communication Vol. 47, No. 3, summer 1997, pp. 96-101
“Paeans to Dallas Smythe,” Journal of Communication, Vol. 46, No. 1, 1996, pp. 179-182
Review Essay of Discursive Acts by R. S. Perinbanayagam. In Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Greenwood, Connecticut: JAI Press Inc., Vol. 13, 1995, pp. 295-301
“Guest Editor’s Introduction,” Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1996, pp. 159-160
“Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) Worldview,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 21(2), 1996, pp. 161-178
“Canadian Communication and the Legacy of Graham Spry”, Queen’s Quarterly, December 1993, pp. 989 – 1003
“Guest Editor’s Introduction”. Canadian Journal of Communication. May 1990, pp. Vi - vii
“Control of Telephones: The Canadian Experience”. Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1988, pp. 16 - 29
“Size of Canada’s Copyright Industries,” Canadian Patent Reporter. 3rd Series, Vol. 9, Pt. 4, August 1986, pp. 449 -460
“Predatory Pricing and Foreclosure in Canadian Telecommunications,” Telecommunications Policy, December 1985, pp. 329 -333
“Vertical Integration and Productivity: Canadian Telecommunications,” Journal of Economic Issues, March 1981
“Regulation of Private Television by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission” A Critique of Ends and Means,” Canadian Public Administration, winter, 1976
“Public and Private Regulation of Cable Television: A Case Study of Technological Change and Relative Power,” Canadian Public Administration, summer, 1974
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Encyclopedia/ Dictionary Articles: |
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, ed. Gerald Hallowell, Toronto: Oxford, 2004: “Alexander Graham Bell,” “Bell Canada,” George Grant,” “ John Grierson,” Marshall McLuhan,” “C.B. Macpherson,” “Gugliemo Marconi,” “Graham Spry,” “ telecommunications,” “transatlantic cable”
Canadian Encyclopedia, Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1985, 1988; revised, electronic version 1996, 2000, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto: “Cable Television,” “Pay Television,” “Media Ownership,” “Telephones,” “Telegraph,” “Bell Canada Enterprises,” (“BCE”), “TransCanada Telephone System” (“Stentor”), “Graham Spry,” “Alan Plaunt,” “Francis Dagger,” “Sir William Mulock,” “Nathan Louis Nathanson,” “Alexander Melville Bell,” “Sir Leonard Brockington” “Information Theory in Economics,” in The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics,” Warren J. Samuels, Marc R. Tool, and Geoffrey M. Hodgson, editors; London: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 360 - 366
“Bell Canada,” in Encyclopedia of Television, Horace Newcombe, editor, 1996
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Conference Proceedings: |
“Charles Fleetford Sise,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. XIV (1911 - 1920), University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 932 -935
“Media Technology and the Great Transformation of Canadian Cultural Policy,” in Joel Smith, editor, Media Policy, National Identity and Citizenry in Changing Democratic Societies: The Case of Canada, Durham, North Carolina: Canadian Studies Center, Duke University, 1998, pp. 104 – 122
“Telecommunications and Electronic Publishing,” Selected Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Electronic Publishing, 1986
“Economics of Broadcasting,” Conference on Broadcasting. Canadian Conference of the Arts, 1985
“Broadcasting Inquiries” (co-authored), Conference on Broadcasting, Canadian Conference of the Arts, 1985
“Future Prospects of Canadian Television Programming”. Conference ‘80, Canadian Broadcasting League, 1980
“Public Policy and the Problem of Structural Change in Canadian Broadcasting,” New Developments in Canadian Law and Policy. Law Society of Upper Canada, 1980
“Regulation of Private Television by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission”. The Crisis of Canadian Broadcasting. Canadian Broadcasting League, 1976
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Distance Learning Modules: |
“Telecommunications: From Old to New Models of Control”, Leicester University MA Program in Mass Communications, 1997
“Twentieth Century Canadian Communication Theory,” St Boniface College, University of Manitoba, Distance Learning M.A. Program in Canadian Studies, 2001
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Major Reports |
Towards An Integrated Knowledge Ecosystem: A Canadian Research Strategy, A Report Submitted to the Canadian Association of Research Libraries / L'Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (CARL/ABRC), co-authored, Ottawa: CARL, 2005
Content Analysis: Press Coverage of Ottawa-Carleton Restructuring, Study prepared for the City of Nepean, October 18, 1999
Survey of Kanata and Ottawa-Carleton Residents on Proposals for Municipal Restructuring, with Angela Carter, Study prepared for City of Nepean, 15 Nov. 1999
Survey of Nepean Residents on Ottawa-Carleton Restructuring, with Angela Carter, Study prepared for City of Nepean, October 24, 1999 Pesticide Use Survey: A Study Commissioned by the Citizen’s Environmental Committee, City of Nepean, co-authored with Sheehan Carter, 1997, 19 pp. plus appendices
A Study of Radio. Prepared for Task Force on Broadcasting Policy, December 1985
Competitive Procedures for Broadcasting --Renewals and Transfers (co-authored). Prepared for Department of Communications, 1980
Economies of Vertical Integration in the Canadian Telephone Industry. Memorandum of evidence submitted by Director of Investigation and Research, Combines Investigation Act to Restrictive Trade Practices Commission, 1978
Competitive Bidding and Efficiency in the Canadian Telephone Industry. Memorandum of evidence submitted by Director of Investigation and Research, Combines Investigation Act to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, 1978
Over 50 other reports
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Reviews: |
Of Lies the Media Tell Us by James Winter. Topia 19, Spring 2008
Of No Time: Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life by Heather Menzies, Canadian Journal of Communication 30:4, 2005
Of Harold Innis by Paul Heyer, in Canadian Journal of Communication, 2004.
Of Telecom Nation by Laurence Mussio, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001, in Scientia Canadensis Vol. XXV, 2001, pp. 92 – 94.
Of ReConvergence by Dwayne Winseck and of The Audience Reflected in the Medium of Law by Myles Ruggles, Canadian Journal of Communication 21 (2), pp. 302 - 306
Of An Ecology of Communication: Cultural Formats of Control, by David L. Altheide, Canadian Journal of Communication, 23 (2), spring, 1998, pp. 267 - 269
Of Communication By Design, by Robin Mansell and R. Silverstone, Journal of Economic Issues, September 1997
Of Whose Brave New World? by Heather Menzies Canadian Journal of Communication, 22 (1), winter, 1997, pp. 128 – 9
Of Missed Opportunities by Marc Raboy, in Communique´, Vol. 10, No. 4, December 1990
Of Fact and Fancy in Television Regulation by Harvey Levin, in Canadian Journal of Economics, February 1982
Of The Public Eye by Frank Peers, in Canadian Public Policy, Spring 1980
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Conference Papers: |
“Harold Innis and the Paradox of Press Freedom.” The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, 19th Biennial Conference, Toronto, Ontario, November 2007
“Valuing Ecosystem Services and Resources.” Presentation to Workshop on “Valuing Ecological Goods and Services: An Ontario Perspective,” Peterborough Naval Association, March 1, 2007
“Culture of Ecology,” Joint Session of Canadian Communication Association and Environmental Association of Canada, University of Western Ontario, London, ON June 2005
“Innis and McLuhan: Environmentalists,” Probe 2004: The McLuhan Festival of the Future,” Toronto, Drake Hotel, October 17, 2004.
“Retrospective on Canadian Communication Thought” Plenary Session, Canadian Communication Annual Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, May 29, 2002
“McLuhan and Canadian Communication Thought,” McLuhan Symposium, University of Ottawa, May 2000
“Communication Thought of George Grant,” International Communications Association, Montreal, May 1997
“Symbolic Environment,” University of Ottawa Conference on “L'hybridation des Cultures a l'heure de la globalisation des marches,” Oct. 24, 1996
“Overview of Cultural Ecology,” paper presented to the International Institute of Communications conference on cultural ecology, Sussex, UK, May 1996
“The Information Highway, Self, and Community, Pitfalls and Possibilities,” Saint Paul University Conference on Information Highway, Ottawa, February 1996
“Media Technology and the Great Transformation of Canadian Cultural Policy,” Duke University Symposium on Media Policy, National Identity, and Citizenry in Changing Democratic Societies: The Case of Canada, Durham, North Carolina, October 6, 7, 1995
“Comments on ‘Economic Internationalization and the Internationalization of Telecommunications Policy” by Mark Brawley and Richard Schultz,” Carleton University Conference on The Internationalization of Canadian Public Policy, Ottawa May 25-6, 1995
“Information, Economics and Ecosystem,” to Symposium on Critical Communication Studies, University of Ottawa, October 24 to 26, 1994
“The Place of Information in Economics,” to Twenty-Third Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Solomons Maryland, October 1993; paper also presented to International Communications Association, Ottawa, May 1993
“Free Trade Agreement, Communications and Telecommunications”, Trilateral Studies Symposium, Michigan State University, 23-4 May, 1991
“Copyright, Free Trade and Culture”, Innis Conference, University of Toronto, March 1988
“Let’s Make A Deal”, Conference on Unequal Partners: A Comparison Between F.R. of Germany/Austria Canada/U.S.A., Carleton University, Ottawa, 25 September 1987
“Technological Determinism and Technological Nationalism: A Critique of Prevailing Myths”. International Communications Association, Montreal, May 1987
“Emergence and Development of Canadian Communications”, Transcom Project, Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia, Vancouver, August 1986
“Regulation and Incentives”, Conference on Canadian Broadcasting, University of Alberta, November 1985
“Telecommunications and Electronic Publishing”, Canadian Conference on Electronic Publishing, University of British Columbia, August 1985
“Cable
Ownership Patterns and Economic Analysis: Policy
“The New Technologies”, plenary session, founding conference of the Canadian Communications Association, Montreal, 1980
“Regulating the Canadian Telephone Industry”, Mid-West Economics Association, Chicago, March 1980
“Public Policy and the Problem of Structural Change in Canadian Broadcasting”, National Symposium on Law and Policy on Canadian Communications, Law Society of Upper Canada and Canadian Bar Association, University of Ottawa, January 1980
“Vertical Integration and Productivity: Canadian Telecommunications,” American Economics Association meetings, Chicago, August 1978
“Pay Television,” Canadian Council of Filmmakers Conference on Pay-TV, Toronto, September, 1976
“Regulation of Broadcasting by the CRTC”, Canadian Broadcasting League Conference, Halifax, August 1976
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Invited Lectures and Talks: |
“Media Coverage of Kyoto,” presentation to Biology Department, University of Western Ontario, January 2003, 2004
“Cultural Ecology,” Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, Jan, 30, 2002
“McLuhan and Canadian Communication Thought,” the Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, October, 2000
Roundtable Discussant, Department of Canadian Heritage, Concentration of Media Control, Ottawa, June 2000
“The Political Economy of Information and Communication,” Communication Studies Symposium, University of Windsor, February 2000
“Convergence in Telecommunications, ” University of Windsor, Communication Studies, October 1998
“The Communication Thought of C. B. Macpherson, “ Communication Studies, University of Windsor, May, 1998
“Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) Worldview,” Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, September 1996
“On Political Economy”, Joint Ph.D. Program in Communication, Université de Montréal, March 1991
“On Political Economy”, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Carleton University, October 1990
“Communication: Blind Spot of Western Economics”, Carleton University, Media and Communication Research Centre, lecture series, September 1990
“Regulation of Canadian Telecommunications”, Michigan State University, Department of Telecommunications, February, 1990
“Telecommunications Policy,” Ontario Government Senior Executive Seminar, Toronto, 2 December, 1986
“Emergence and Development of Canadian Communications: Technology, Industry and Government”, Studies in Communication and Information Technology, Queen’s University, February 4, 1986
“Technology and Existentialism,” Queen’s University, at the time of the Queen’s-Edinburgh University satellite conference, February 1986
“Communications Industry and Policy in Perspective,” Graduate Program in Communication, McGill University, January 1984
“Cable TV, Satellites, and Communications Regulation: Technology Between Two Laws”, Communications Seminar, Canadian Hospital Association, Ottawa, December, 1983
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Other Publications:
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“McLuhan and the Electronic Archives.” In Old Messengers, New Media. Library and Archives Canada, 2007 <http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/innis-mcluhan/002033-4010-e.html>
“Real World of the Information Highway.” In Point of View Magazine, summer, 1994: 16–19
“Copyright, Free Trade and Culture.” In Canadian Forum, Special Supplement, 1988
“Concentration of Control in the Canadian Cable Television Industry.” Regulatory Reporter, 1980
“Broadcasting: In Whose Interest?” In Search, Summer, 1980
“Empires in TV Land.” In Search, Winter 1980: 20–27
“The New Technology: Changing or Drifting?” Closed Circuit, March 1980
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Expert Testimony: |
Before Copyright Board, Ottawa, June 19 1995, on compilation of television broadcasts Before House of Commons, Legislative Committee on Bill C-58, Re Telesat Canada, 3 December 1991
Before Restrictive Trade Practices Commission, on behalf of the Director of Investigation and Research, Investigation Act, regarding vertical integration in telecommunications, May to November 1978, 13 days of testimony
Before Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on behalf of Director of Investigation and Research, Combines Investigation Act, re Bell Canada increase in rates application, May 1978
Before Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, on behalf of Consumers’ Association of Canada, re Cable TV rate increases, March 1975, May 1976
Before Canadian Transport Commission, on behalf of Consumers’ Association of Canada, re. telephone rate increases, March 1974
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Academic Service: |
At University of Western Ontario: Chair, Media Studies Committee, fall 2002 – spring 2003; member, Media Studies Committee, 2003 – 07, Secretary, Media Studies Committee, 2004 – 2006; member, faculty performance evaluation committee, 2003 – 4; member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2004 – 2007, member Appointments Committee 2006-07 At University of Windsor: Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, fall 2001 – present; Member, New Programs Committee, fall 2001 – present; Member, Myles Ruggles Promotion Committee, fall 2001 – February 2002; Member, Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, May 2001 – present; Chair, Head Search Committee, Communication Studies, March - May, 2001; Member, Graduate Dean Search Committee, fall 2000; Member, Philosophy Department Hiring Committee, fall and winter 2000-01; Member, Communication Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Development Committee, spring 2001; Member, University of Windsor Graduate Council, fall 2000 to present; Member, University of Windsor Social Justice Steering Committee, fall & winter 2000 - present. Also at University of Windsor, chief responsibility for designing application for new M.A. Program in “Communication and Social Justice,” for submission to OCGS in 2000; (approved by OCGS, September, 2001 for September 2002 start-up) At University of Ottawa: Member, Editorial Board, University of Ottawa Press, Sept. 1997 - June 1999; service on various departmental committees, including, personnel, program and masters committees; Acting Chair, Dept. of Communication, University of Ottawa, Nov. 1996; Three years’ service on Faculty B.A. Committee. Other Service: Member, Board of Editors, Topia, 2009 to present; Advisory Board, Topia, 2005 – 2009; Chair, OGS Panel, January 2003; 2004; 2006; Member, Board of Editors, The Canadian Journal of Media Studies, 2004 - present; Member, Board of Editors, Canadian Journal of Communication, Fall 1996 to present; Member, Board of editors Fifth Estate Online 2005 – present; Member Board of Editors, Journal of Critical Studies in Business and Society, 2007-present; Guest Editor, special issue, Canadian Journal of Communication, spring 1996, special issue on information and economics; Elected to the Board of Directors, Canadian Journal of Communication, May 1987 to June 1990; Guest Editor, Canadian Journal of Communication, special issue on Telecommunications, May 1990; External evaluator on applications for promotion or tenure for faculty members at McGill University, University of Toronto, York University, Concordia University, Carleton University, University of Windsor, the American University (Washington, D.C.), 1990, 1991, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005; Consultant and External Evaluator, proposed Ph.D. in Mass Communication, Carleton University, September 1991; Referee for the following journals and institutions: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Policy, (spring 1998), Canadian Public Policy 1996, Killam Fellowship, Canada Council, fall 1996, Dibner Institute, MIT, 1996, Institute for Research on Public Policy (1989), Journal of Canadian Studies (1988, 1989, 2004), Social Science and Humanities Research Council (various years), Canadian Journal of Communication (most years), University of Wisconsin Press (1986), Telecommunications Policy (1985), Canadian Public Administration (1984, 1985), Canadian Encyclopedia (various years), McGill Working Papers in Communication (1984), Journal of Economic Issues (1980), Canadian Public Policy (1980, 1996), C.D. Howe Research Institute (1978); Canadian Journal of Media Studies 2005, 2006; Fifth Estate Online 2006. Thesis advisor/reader to M.A. and/or Ph,D. candidates at: University of Western Ontario, Media Studies 2003 – 09; University of Ottawa, Dept. of History, 1998; University of Ottawa, Dept. of Religious Studies, 1997-98; Concordia University Department of Communication Studies, 1989, 1990, 1996-97, 1999; School of Journalism, Carleton University, 1983, 1986; Graduate Program in Communication, McGill University, 1987, 1992, 1996 – 1999; Simon Fraser University, School of Communication, 1989, 1997; Michigan State University, Department of Television and Radio, 1972 |
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