MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, Canadian Content, Technological Convergence
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Lecture 9: communications policy - sector by sector. Communications policy must adapt to changes in the mass communications sphere. Convergence: the merging of technologies, media forms, and media industries. Interactivity: we are quickly adapting to a mediascape in which we have increasing choice about how, when, and where we consume media. Con icts between international trade agreements and cultural policies. Trade between the us and canada: if no canadian cultural policies were in place, american productions would easily. Nafta: canadian cultural exemptions were made, but exceptions would allow the us to retaliate and seek nancial redress. There is no general exemption for cultural industries under the wto. A billion industry with six subsectors: local wireline telephone service, long- distance wireline telephone service, internet services, data transmission, private line, and wireless services. Telecommunications act (1993: governs telecommunications technology, infrastructure, and distribution networks in. Current industry concerns include technological convergence, market regulation, spectrum allocation, and network neutrality.
