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Robert Hackett
Robert Hackett is a CCPA Research Associate, co-founder of Media Democracy Days in 2001, and co-author of Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication (2006) and Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives (2017).
Five books to understand… Media democracy
In this new Monitor feature we invite a prominent Canadian to provide a reading list for better understanding a pressing topic.
The Oil Blotter: Postmedia & Big Oil’s symbiosis
With some notable exceptions, like the Globe and Mail‘s feature on the enormous cost of remediating Alberta’s abandoned oil wells, Canada’s corporate press hasn’t paid much critical attention to this powerful industrial sector. Why not?
War Radio and the Militarization of Canadian Culture
“The deformed human mind is the ultimate doomsday weapon.” I was reminded of this chilling warning from the late British historian E.P. Thompson, while listening…
Harper Strategists Working From US Republicans’ Playbook
As someone who studies political communication, I am struck by the success, if not the ethics, of the Harper Conservatives’ political marketing strategies. Branding and…
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