1. Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   
2. The Art of AIDS
   From Stigma to Conscience
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   Examines AIDS as an increasingly common theme in drama, dance, music, film,television, painting, photography and theatre. Reveals not only the expected themes of death and dying, but also the issues of spirituality and healing, political and social action, sexuality and responsibility, isolation and community, racism and heterosexism.
   
3. Autonomous Media
   Activating Resistance & Dissent
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
4. Canadian Students' Guide to Language, Literature, and Media
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2001
   Meant for secondary schools, independent use, or small group study
5. Canwest latest #media giant# to exploit news operations
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they#ve deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it#s not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
6. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
   The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
7. Citizen media
   Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   The term citizen media refers to forms of content produced by private citizens who are otherwise not professional journalists.
8. Communication for and Against Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   
9. Connexions Annual Overview: Arts, Media, Culture
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1994
   The established wisdom has it that the media are neutral purveyors of news and entertainment, while the arts are about individual creativity and cultural values untainted by the vulgar concerns of politics and economics.
10. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
11. The Empire God Built
    Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
12. Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
    Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project # or raises money for just about any public-interest activity # will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
13. Good, Bad, or Simply Inevitable?
    Report of the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media, Vol. III
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
14. Green Isle in the Sea; an informal history of the alternative press.
    An Informal History of the Alternative Press
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    
15. A History of News
    From the Drum to the Satellite
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
16. Imagined Nations
    Reflections on Media in Canadian Fiction
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A basic look at the effects different forms of media have had on Canadian novels and film adaptations and cyberspace, and how these affect the sense of time and space and national identities.
17. Journalism of Outrage
    Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Examines the myths and misconceptions of investigative journalism and presents empirical research to support a model that challenges the classical theory.
18. Journalism: Truth or Dare?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
19. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
20. Lies The Media Tell us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
21. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    
22. Mad Cows and Mother's Milk
    The Perils of Poor Risk Communication
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Using a series of case studies, Douglas Powell and William Leiss outline the crucial role of risk communication practice and malpractice to provide a set of lessons for risks managers and communicators.
23. Marxism and the Mass Media
    Toward a Basic Bibliography
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
24. Mass Media: The Uncertain Mirror - Vol. I
    Report of the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
25. Media and Minorities
    Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
26. Media and Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A student text for popular culture and media studies programmes.
27. Media (communication)
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    In communication, media (singular medium) are the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data. It is often referred to as synonymous with mass media or news media, but may refer to a single medium used to communicate any data for any purpose.
28. The Media Game
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
29. Media Names & Numbers
    Your Connection to the Media
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2009
    A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
    
30. Media (News & Entertainment) Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to news and entertainment media in the Sources directory for the media.
31. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
32. The Missing News
    Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
33. Mixed Media, Mixed Messages
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    This is a collection of columns by Vancouver Sun columnist Persky. Specifically, Persky tries to address moral and philosophical questions raised by media practices.
    
34. The Monthly Epic
    A History of Canadian Magazines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
35. Mosaic in Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    
36. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
37. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
38. Nielsen Media Research (Canada)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
39. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
40. Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    How media have taken over our lives.
41. Por todos los medios
    Comunicacion and genero
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
42. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
43. Sign Crimes/Road Kill
    From Mediascape to Landscape
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
44. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
45. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
46. Towers of Deception
    The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
47. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
48. Understanding Media
    The Extensions of Man
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
    
49. Understanding the News Business
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1983
    
50. Ways of Seeing
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Seeing establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it.
51. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
    Marketing the War Against Iraq
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
52. Words, Music, and Dollars
    Report of the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media, Volume II
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    

Experts on Media in the Sources Directory

1. Allan Bonner Communications Management Inc.
2. Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
3. Honest Reporting Canada
4. International Monetary Fund
5. Media Names & Numbers
6. NameBase Book Index
7. National Media Museum
8. Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
9. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
10. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
11. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
12. University of Winnipeg