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Required Reading for Media Industries

Apple’s Lead in Smartphones Is Not Guaranteed

 

Required Reading for Media Industries Students

Facing a backlash, Ottawa moves to retool cybercrime bill On Internet privacy, I’m with the child pornographers

 

 

Required Reading for Media Industries Students

Canada’s newly competitive cellphone market at risk Erasing the Boundaries TV ‘cord cutters’ and ‘cord nevers’ increase, finds Nielsen study Wither the Giants? The Arrogance of Aging Incumbents Government Docs Confirm the Case Against Warrantless Disclosure of Subscriber Data Ontario teachers urge WiFi blackout at schools, fearing cancer risk

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Media Industries Required Reading

Required reading for my Winter 2012 Media Industries students: Supreme Court rules ISPs not subject to broadcast regulations (Globe and Mail) Youths Are Watching, but Less Often on TV (New York Times) Netflix less about flicks, more about TV P&G signals plans to cut ad costs by shifting to digital media Teens join Twitter to

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Required Reading for Media Industries Students

The Perpetual War: Pirates and Creators (NYTs)

Smartphones killing demand for point-and-shoot cameras (G&M)

Anonymous penetrates FBI, Scotland Yard investigation of hacker group

A New Question of Internet Freedom (NYTs)

Ubisoft Games Won’t Work This Week (M. Geist)

Entertainment software giant Ubisoft, who the Ontario government gave $263 million in 2009 to create 80 jobs

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Media Industries Required Reading

Part I: The growth of the network media economy, 1984-2010

Part 2: Media and Internet concentration in Canada, 1984-2010

Winners, losers and opportunities lost in the CRTC vertical-integration ruling

Media Industries Readings

More required reading for my Media Industries students:

The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is at Stake and What You Can Do

CRTC Investigation Finds Rogers Violated Net Neutrality Rules

Time Warner Cable reports higher profits, dividend

Don’t ease telecom foreign investment rules, NDP warns

Required reading for my Media Industries class (Winter 2012):

Don’t ease telecom foreign investment rules, NDP warns

TV Everywhere Could Create $12 Billion in Annual Revenue for TV Industry

Copyright and the Right

Required reading for Media Industries students, Winter 2012

Jesse Kline on copyright reform and the case of the illicit t-shirts

Copyright and the Right Copied in full from the blog of Michael Geist  (ironic — yes)

Last night’s Republican presidential candidate debate featured a question on SOPA, leading all four remaining candidates to register their

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Why Canadians Should Participate in the SOPA/PIPA Protest

Required reading for my Media Industries students (Winter 2011)

Why Canadians Should Participate in the SOPA/PIPA Protest