From Public Interest To Creators’ Interest: An Examination Of The Policy Discourse Shifts in Canadian Broadcasting: 2003-2007

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.32920/ryerson.14663004.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Emma Whyte

Keyword(s):

Public Interest ◽

Digital Age ◽

Second Century ◽

Policy Discourse ◽

Policy Recommendations ◽

Policy Document ◽

Policy Documents ◽

Cultural Sovereignty ◽

Digital World ◽

Cultural Good

This thesis investigates the policy discourse shifts in Canadian broadcasting that occurred between 2003 and 2017 by examining two government consultation processes about Canadian broadcasting in the digital age: the 2003 “Our Cultural Sovereignty: The Second Century of Canadian Broadcasting” report, and the 2017 Canadian Content in a Digital World consultations. These two consultation processes are compared through a policy document analysis, analyzing government policy documents and stakeholders’ submissions to the consultations. Through this analysis, it was found that, although both reports stressed the necessity of policy reform, three key shifts in the policy discourse were identified: a shift from distinctly Canadian to internationally viable, a shift from cultural good to economic good, and a shift from public interest to creators’ interest. Because of these shifts, although these reports addressed similar problems about broadcasting in the digital age, the reports had considerably different outcomes regarding their policy recommendations

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From Public Interest To Creators’ Interest: An Examination Of The Policy Discourse Shifts in Canadian Broadcasting: 2003-2007

10.32920/ryerson.14663004 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Emma Whyte

Keyword(s):

Public Interest ◽

Digital Age ◽

Second Century ◽

Policy Discourse ◽

Policy Recommendations ◽

Policy Document ◽

Policy Documents ◽

Cultural Sovereignty ◽

Digital World ◽

Cultural Good

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Governing Knowledge: Intellectual Property Management for Development and the Public Interest

Revista do Serviço Público ◽

10.21874/rsp.v66i0.1278 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 66 ◽

pp. 69-88

Author(s):

Leonardo Burlamaqui

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Property ◽

Public Interest ◽

Public Domain ◽

Policy Recommendations ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Private Interests ◽

Intellectual Property Management ◽

Analytical Perspective ◽

The Right

The core point of this paper is the hypothesis that in the field of intellectual property rights and regulations, the last three decades witnessed a big change. The boundaries of private (or corporate) interests have been hyper-expanded while the public domain has significantly contracted. It tries to show that this is detrimental to innovation diffusion and productivity growth. The paper develops the argument theoretically, fleshes it out with some empirical evidence and provides a few policy recommendations on how to redesign the frontiers between public and private spaces in order to produce a more democratic and development-oriented institutional landscape. The proposed analytical perspective developed here, “Knowledge Governance”, aims to provide a framework within which, in the field of knowledge creation and diffusion, the dividing line between private interests and the public domain ought to be redrawn. The paper’s key goal is to provide reasoning for a set of rules, regulatory redesign and institutional coordination that would favor the commitment to distribute (disseminate) over the right to exclude.Keywords: knowledge management, intellectual property, patent, public, interest, public sector, private sector, socioeconomic developmen

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High-fidelity consumption and the claustropolitan structure of feeling

Marketing Theory ◽

10.1177/14705931211062637 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 147059312110626

Author(s):

Quynh Hoang ◽

James Cronin ◽

Alex Skandalis

Keyword(s):

Digital Age ◽

High Fidelity ◽

Digital World ◽

Affective Consequences ◽

Point Of Intersection ◽

Critical Project

This paper invokes Redhead’s concept of claustropolitanism to critically explore the affective reality for consumers in today’s digital age. In the context of surveillance capitalism, we argue that consumer subjectivity revolves around the experience of fidelity rather than agency. Instead of experiencing genuine autonomy in their digital lives, consumers are confronted with a sense of confinement that reflects their tacit conformity to the behavioural predictions of surveillant market actors. By exploring how that confinement is lived and felt, we theorise the collective affects that constitute a claustropolitan structure of feeling: incompletion, saturation and alienation. These affective contours trace an oppressive atmosphere that infuses consumers’ lives as they attempt to seek fulfilment through digital market-located behaviours that are largely anticipated and coordinated by surveillant actors. Rather than motivate resistance, these affects ironically work to perpetuate consumers’ commitment to the digital world and their ongoing participation in the surveillant marketplace. Our theorisation continues the critical project of re-assessing the consumer subject by showing how subjectivity is produced at the point of intersection between ideological imperatives and affective consequences.

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Evolving meanings of “the social” in the international development agenda

Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy ◽

10.1080/21699763.2015.1044555 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 114-131 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Naila Kabeer

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

International Development ◽

Development Policy ◽

Growth And Development ◽

Policy Discourse ◽

Policy Agenda ◽

Policy Documents ◽

Means And Ends ◽

Development Agenda ◽

The Social

This paper argues that while social policy as an explicit aspect of policy discourse has relatively recent origins within the international development agenda, concerns with “the social” have featured from its very early days seeking to challenge the conflation between growth and development. The paper focuses on key international conferences and policy documents to analyse contestations over the meanings of “the social” within development policy discourse and their efforts to rethink its boundaries with “the economic”. It suggests that these contestations have helped to spell out the basic outlines of an alternative policy agenda in which concerns with “the social” have come to define both the means and ends of development.

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Open access and closed minds: Balancing intellectual property and public interest in the digital age

UN Chronicle ◽

10.18356/d410cfe2-en ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 29-31

Author(s):

Nalaka Gunawardene

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Property ◽

Open Access ◽

Public Interest ◽

Digital Age

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Access Imagined: The Construction of Disability in Conference Policy Documents

Disability Studies Quarterly ◽

10.18061/dsq.v29i1.174 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Margaret Price

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Disabled Persons ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Professional Organizations ◽

Font Size ◽

Policy Document ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Policy Documents ◽

Construction Of Disability

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Conferences are a crucial area of professional development for persons with disabilities, but they are also among the most least accessible spaces that disabled persons may encounter. I argue that we need further research into these highly charged spaces, and I contribute to this agenda by analyzing 17 accessibility policy documents produced by 8 different professional organizations. Using critical discourse analysis, I examine the choices these documents have made, both verbal and visual, as well as possible outcomes of these choices for various audiences. In closing, I offer a list of generative questions that the authors of such documents should consider. It is impossible for a policy document to “imagine” access perfectly ahead of time; rather, we should understand and treat policy documents as part of a continually evolving dialogue.</span>

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ALANYAZIN EĞİTİM BİLİMLERİ ELEŞTİREL İNCELEME DERGİSİ - CRITICAL REVIEWS IN EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES ◽

10.22596/cresjournal.0101.39.46 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 39-46

Author(s):

Salih UÇAK ◽

Zübeyir Gökhan DOĞAN

Keyword(s):

Digital Age ◽

Natural System ◽

Dimensional Structure ◽

Fair Share ◽

Current Role ◽

Digital World ◽

The Future

The school defines a system that is too complex to be reduced to functions and practices. Humanity saw the school as a ‘multi-dimensional structure’ in its development adventure; ıts necessity was generally considered to be ‘vital’. Until the last century, there was hardly any serious criticism that the school was unnecessary. Especially the differences such as the innovations of the new century, the monist perspective, the possibilities of the digital world gave the opportunity to discuss the role of the school and its current role was frequently brought up. Even though the evaluations made over the school with the works of thinkers such as Gatto and Illich have a fair share, it will be seen that these are criticisms developed on the basis of ‘negative examples’. In the digital age where the vehicle is rich and purpose is impoverished, the school must be reconstructed as a challenging metaphor. There is a need for a vision of a school that prioritizes the human with wisdom without blessing the machine. In this context, our study regards the school of the future as the most critical institutional phenomenon for human rejuvenation ‘despite all’. School as a natural system is considered to be the strongest structure to rebuild the future against actual and popular ‘negativities’.

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Interinstitutional networks and democratization of services in social intervention with older people in Portugal

Research on Ageing and Social Policy ◽

10.17583/rasp.2017.2103 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 109

Author(s):

Isabella Paoletti ◽

Alda Gonçalves

Keyword(s):

Older People ◽

Support Services ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

Intervention Strategies ◽

Social Intervention ◽

Policy Document ◽

Policy Documents ◽

Network Program ◽

Interdisciplinary Study ◽

Large Corpus

This article presents an interinstitutional network supporting older people in Portugal and a policy document that institutionalized this type of interinstitutional practices. The data are part of a large corpus collected in the course of interdisciplinary research: “Aging, poverty and social exclusion: an interdisciplinary study on innovative support services.” (https://apseclunl.wordpress.com/). The documentation of good practices in intervention with older people at risk of exclusion were the aim of the research project. The data collected incudes: interviews, observation and recordings of inter-institutional meetings. In the light of the relevant literature, the study discusses the ethnographic account in relation to relevant policy documents (“Rede Social” Interinstitutional Network Program RCM no. 197/97, of 18 November). Describing the main aspects of the intervention strategies with the older population, the article documents the value of these experiences and the approach in policies for the democratization of services and the inclusion of citizens participating in decision making about delivery of services and the promotion of inclusive societies.

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Online Hunting, Gathering and Sharing – A Return to Experiential Learning in a Digital Age

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning ◽

10.19173/irrodl.v19i2.3732 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Maristela Petrovic-Dzerdz ◽

Anne Trépanier

Keyword(s):

Experiential Learning ◽

Digital Age ◽

Design Strategies ◽

Digital World ◽

New Learning Environments ◽

Online Instructional Design ◽

Collective Experience ◽

Experiential Process ◽

Group Success ◽

University Course

Learning through a collective experience by taking part in group activities, such as hunting, gathering, and sharing, has always been a natural, “organic,” and “experiential” process where new skills and knowledge, if benefitting the whole group, are accepted, shared, and propagated. Nevertheless, in industrialized societies where specific knowledge and skills are an economical and societal necessity, the learning economy has largely moved to a model where the teachers “harvest” selected knowledge and “put it in a basket” from which students are expected to take from and learn. This learning model has permeated the 21st century digital world, where the main promoted advantage of these new learning environments is still the “individualization of learning,” which can result in a very solitary and isolated endeavor; however, it doesn’t have to be the case. An example of a successful online university course suggests that carefully crafted online instructional design strategies can contribute to a flexible and rich experiential learning environment. Although they might be physically disconnected, it is possible for learners and a teacher to remain closely interconnected, engaged, and accountable for both individual and group success in knowledge "hunting, gathering, and sharing" activities in a digital age.

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Building relationships with the new media in a cyber landscape

Journal of Business Strategy ◽

10.1108/jbs-08-2019-0154 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (6) ◽

pp. 49-54

Author(s):

Allison Clair ◽

Jim Mandler

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Digital Age ◽

Quarter Century ◽

Content Type ◽

Building Relationships ◽

Personal Lives ◽

The Past ◽

Digital World

Purpose What industry has not changed in the past quarter century because of The Digital Age? The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effect of the digital age on media. Design/methodology/approach This paper takes the design of an author viewpoint. Findings The Digital Age has affected practically everything that makes up our professional and personal lives – how we learn, how we inform, how we sustain and, certainly, how we interact. Originality/value Even industries that previously had no connection to the digital world cannot function.

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