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POL S 298

Topics in Political Science

3 units

Winter 2024

Topics

  • Introduction to communication policy research
  • How does communication policy and law shape our societies?
  • Introducing power, persuasion, and participation
  • Perspectives on law and policy: Natural law; Positivist legal theory; Indigenous legal systems; legal pluralism
  • Whom do law and policy serve?
  • Frameworks, theories and models of public policy analysis
  • Reviewing basic concepts in the study of public policy in Canada
  • Multiple levels of policy making: Global to local
  • Institutional influences on policy making
  • Introducing the Canadian legal system: Common and civil law
  • Canadian policy institutions: CRTC, ISED, and Canadian Heritage
  • Introducing digital citizenship
  • Building on the policy process model and initiating policy action
  • Shaping policy: Public opinion, narratives, frames and frameworks
  • Stakeholders, rights-holders and policy advocates

Readings

  • Bannerman, S. (2020). Canadian Communication Policy and Law. Canadian Scholars
    required
  • Picard, R. G. (2020). Media and Communications Policy Making: Processes, Dynamics and International Variations. Palgrave MacMillan
    required
  • Wernick, M. (2021). "Power in the capital" (pp. 13-35) in Governing Canada: A guide to the tradecraft of politics. On Point Press
    recommended
  • Miljan, L. (2022). Chapter 1: “Basic concepts in the study of public policy” (pp.2-25) in Public Policy in Canada: An Introduction. Don Mills: Oxford University Press
    recommended
  • Gasher, M., Skinner, D., and Coulter, N. (2020). “Chapter 7: The Formation of Public Policy” (pp.170-191) in Media & communication in Canada: Networks, culture, technology, audiences (Ninth Edition), Oxford University Press
    recommended
  • Lalancette, M. and Raynauld, V. (2020). “Online mobilization: Tweeting truth to power in an era of revised patterns of mobilization in Canada” (pp.223-244) in T.A. Small and H.J. Jansen, Digital politics in Canada: Promises and realities, University of Toronto Press
    required
  • Wilkinson, S. (2020). Four phases of Internet policy development: Risks to the public interest, Journal of Information Policy, 10: 184-209
    recommended
  • Anstis, S., Barnett, S., Deibert, R., Gill, L., Penney, J., Reid, R.J., & Senft, A. (2020). Citizen Lab: Submission to the Government of Canada on the Renewal of the Responsible Business Conduct Strategy
    recommended
  • Flew, T. and Smith, R. (2021). Selections from “Truth and misinformation in the post-truth era” (pp.214-222) in New media: An introduction (Fourth Canadian Edition), Oxford University Press
    required
  • Parsons, C. (2020). “Electronic surveillance: The growth of digitally enabled surveillance and the atrophy of accountability in law enforcement and security agencies” (pp.112-135) in T.A. Small and H.J. Jansen, Digital politics in Canada: Promises and realities, University of Toronto Press
    recommended
  • Selman, B., Fauteaux, B., and deWaard, A. (2022). From copyright cartels to commons and care: A public infrastructure model for Canadian music communities, Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 71(1): 1-23
    required
  • Flew, T. and Smith, R. (2021). Selections from “Internet law, policy and governance” (pp.290-297) in New media: An Introduction (Fourth Canadian Edition), Oxford University Press
    recommended
  • Middleton, C. (2017). An introduction to telecommunications policy in Canada, Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, 5(4): 97-124
    required
  • recommended
  • Armstrong, R. (2016). “Introduction” (pp. 3-19) in Broadcasting Policy in Canada (2nd Ed). University of Toronto Press
    required
  • CRTC. (2019). Offering cultural diversity on TV and radio
    recommended
  • Flew, T. and Smith, R. (2021). Selections from “Internet law, policy and governance” (pp.273-290) in New media: An Introduction (Fourth Canadian Edition), Oxford University Press
    required
  • Internet Society. (2016). Internet governance: Why the multistakeholder approach works
    recommended
  • First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC) (2016). “Pathways to First Nations’ data and information sovereignty” (pp.139-155) in T. Kukutai and J. Taylor (Eds.), Indigenous data sovereignty: Toward an agenda, Canberra: Australian National University Press
    required
  • Duncan, J., Luscombe, A., & Walby, K. (2023). Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada, The Information Society, 39(1), 45-61
    recommended
  • Deibert, R. (2020). “Introduction” (pp.1-34) in Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society, Toronto: Anansi Press
    recommended
Fall 2023

Readings

  • W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk” from Darkwater (1920), pp. 29-55
    unspecified
  • Frantz Fanon, “Conclusion” from The Wretched of the Earth (1961), pp. 235-240
    unspecified
  • Silvia Federici, “Wages against Housework” (1975), pp. 1-8
    unspecified
  • Herbert Marcuse, “Introduction – The Paralysis of Criticism”, “New Forms of Social Control” in One-Dimensional Man (1964), pp. xxxix-20
    unspecified
  • Rainer Forst, “Noumenal Alienation: Rousseau, Kant, and Marx on the Dialectics of Self- Determination” (2017), pp. 523-551
    unspecified
  • John Medearis, Selections from “Introduction” and “Contesting the Welfare State” from Why Democracy is Oppositional (2015), pp. 1-4, 10, 169-202
    unspecified
  • James Tully, “Life Sustains Life, I” and selections from “Life Sustains Life, II” from Nature and Value (2020), pp. 163-180, 196-202
    unspecified
  • Steven Vogel, “Marx and Alienation from Nature” (1988), pp. 367-387
    unspecified
  • Leroy Little Bear, “Jagged Worldviews Colliding” (2000) from Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision, pp. 77-85
    unspecified
  • Is the experience of colonization described by Little Bear a problem of alienation? Why? Why not?
    unspecified
  • Leanne Simpson, “Looking after Gdoo-naaganinaa: Precolonial Nishnaabeg Diplomatic and Treaty Relationships” (2008), pp. 29-42
    unspecified
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