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 last book, Communication and Empire (co-authored with Robert Pike) won the Canadian Communication Association’s book-of-the-year prize in 2008. You can read more of his work on his blog, Mediamorphis.
Twitter-WikiLeaks case a test of press and privacy rights online
Icelandic MP and WikiLeaker Birgitta Jonsdottir’s battle with the U.S. government lies at the nexus of security laws, press freedom and the future of democracy
Googler Sergey Brin cries crocodile tears on threats to ‘open Internet’
Open data is good for Google’s business, but what about the privacy case for reasonable limits on what search engines can index?
Can a wireless ‘code of conduct’ cure CRTC’s poor record on competition?
Agency begins to wonder if refusal to regulate the sector might be misguided in light of stubbornly low levels of competition
Bell-Astral deal should be stopped in its tracks
Unless the concept of monopoly really is ‘antiquated’, the CRTC and the Competition cannot let this massive media merger happen
Last chance for copyright extremists to warp Bill C-11
Digital locks remain a problem for consumers, but the maximalist lobby still wants more
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
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
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?
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
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.
