Communication Studies

Media Policy in Canada

The electronic version of this handout (with links enabled) is at:

http://library.concordia.ca/research/subjects/communicationst/coms352.htm

Finding books

You may use CLUES to find books, some government publications and Canadian public policy documents. Keyword searches are the broadest way to search and allow you flexibility to combine your terms and phrases using operators, for example:

broadcast* and (policy or legislation or regulation) and canad*

Canadian content and television

Internet and policy and canad*

Telecommunication* policy and canad*

Subject search is useful once you have identified a subject heading. It provides more focused but limited results. Some relevant subject terms include:

Cultural policy – Canada

Television Broadcasting policy - Canada

Broadcasting policy - Canada

Communication policy – Canada

Telecommunication policy -- Canada

Telecommunication -- Law and legislation -- Canada

Telecommunication -- Canada

Subject Search is also useful for searching for information about specific organizations, for example:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

National Film Board of Canada

Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission

CLUES searches documents included in the Canadian Public Policy Collection database. These documents may also be searched directly via the Canadian Public Policy Collection database .

Finding articles

Communication Studies journals:

Communication and Mass Media Complete

Communication Abstracts

Canadian:

CPI.Q

CBCA Reference

America History and Life (for Canadian history)

Multidisciplinary – Academic

Academic Search Premier

Taylor and Francis Online Journals;

Sage Full Text Collections; (and Sage deep backfile)

Jstor;

Project Muse.

If the database you are using does not link to the full-text of the article, check the Ejournals list on the homepage to find if we have an electronic subscription.

Canadian journal of Communication is an important resource that you can search directly.

Other resources

Canadian Cultural Policies (Media Awareness Network)

Canadian Heritage

Culture Canada

Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission

CRTC Telecommunications Decisions

CRTC Broadcast Decisions

CRTC New Media Project Initiative

Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (University of Ottawa)

Canadian media research consortium

Michael Geist Blog (copyright related)

Industry Canada. Telecommunications Policy Branch.

Library of Parliament. Culture and Communications: older backgrounders and more recent issues.

Canadian government information links

Site restricted searches using Google: site:gc.ca (federal), for example: “net neutrality” site:gc.ca

Help is available

Contact me at Sonia.poulin@concordia.ca if you need assistance.