Dwayne Winseck
Telecom-Media-Internet columnist
Dwayne Winseck is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, in Ottawa. He has been researching and writing about media, telecom and the Internet in one way or another for nearly 20 years. Read more...
Dwayne Winseck
Telecom-Media-Internet columnist
Dwayne Winseck is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, in Ottawa. He has been researching and writing about media, telecom and the Internet in one way or another for nearly 20 years, with several books and numerous scholarly articles on the topic. He is also a media historian, and his book, Communication and Empire (co-authored with Robert Pike), won the Canadian Communication Association’s book-of-the-year prize in 2008. He most recent book (co-edited with Dal Yong Jin), The Political Economies of Media, has just been published by Bloomsbury Academic.
You can read more of his work on his blog, Mediamorphis.
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Last chance for copyright extremists to warp Bill C-11
Digital locks remain a problem for consumers, but the maximalist lobby still wants more
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012
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NZ feels the throttling effects of new maximalist copyright laws
Is it a ‘win’ if circumvention, Internet traffic shrinkage and sledgehammer-subtle punishments are the net result of harsh three-strikes infringement laws?
Tuesday, Nov 08, 2011
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Take notice of the slippery slopes in the Copyright Modernization Act
C-11 provisions on notification, record keeping and digital locks will turn Canadian ISPs into gatekeepers one step at a time
Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011
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Winners, losers and opportunities lost in the CRTC vertical-integration ruling
Protection for mobile video access a qualified win for consumers, but failing to address ‘Netflix chokehold’ bandwidth caps may come back to haunt
Thursday, Sep 22, 2011
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Part 2: Media and Internet concentration in Canada, 1984-2010
Besides needing better data and a good airing of the issues, we need to get over the idea that we live in a digital nirvana where the laws of capitalism no longer apply
Tuesday, Sep 06, 2011
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Part I: The growth of the network media economy, 1984-2010
Amidst all the interest-driven media and Internet policy discussions now boiling away something is missing: evidence.
Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011
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Turkey’s telecom past, digital future answers a key UBB question
Just as Turkey looks to be entering a digital golden age, laws restricting freedom of expression and democracy may roll back the clock
Tuesday, Aug 09, 2011
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Dream big: some modest reforms for Canada's media landscape
Canadians are amongst the most wired citizens of the world, but the arrangement of telecom-media-Internet facilities in this country are substandard
Wednesday, Jul 13, 2011
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Down the rabbit hole at the CRTC hearing
The ongoing vertical integration hearing has a definite Alice in Wonderland feel
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011
