CRTC Submissions on Canadian Content

  The CRTC took submissions from interested parties on the topic of a “Netflix Tax.” It is not available on the main CRTC site (that I’ve seen) but the submissions made are available on a separate site: http://www.canadiancontentconsultations.ca/home Notably, the submission from the CBC is essentially in favour of letting Netflix continue to operate as they have, as […]

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News of the Week; January 18, 2017

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Not Exactly a Netflix Tax: Where Canada Stands on a Digital Sales Tax (Michael Geist) Careful: a digital tax isn’t the same as a Netflix tax Killing net neutrality at FCC is “not a slam dunk,” departing chair says: While Republicans could end net neutrality, Wheeler explains why they shouldn’t. […]

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Class 3 Slides

Class 3 slides below… jon

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Materials and Questions for January 25th Class

  Kasey and I are planning our presentation for next week, and would like everyone to read through Changing the Channel on Canadian Communications Regulation, which is a research report from the C.D. Howe Institute which basically argues that broadcasting laws have failed to keep up with changes and innovation. The actual content runs from pages […]

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News of the Week; January 11, 2017

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Canadian Regulators Declare 50 Mbps To Be The New Broadband Standard Why a media coalition is decrying a CRTC ruling on Super Bowl feeds (Michael Geist) NFL Blitzes Trudeau in Arcane Super Bowl Advertising Dispute Norway Set to Be First Country to Switch Off FM Radio: Move to all-digital radio […]

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Class 1 & 2 Slides

Slides from today (also covering some logistics from last week)… jon

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News of the Week; January 4, 2017

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Terence Corcoran: The CRTC needs to stop playing this game and let networks decide what ads run during the Super Bowl Canada Classifies Broadband as a Basic Telecommunications Service Tucker Carlson delivers sexism for Fox News Megyn Kelly Is Leaving Fox News for NBC Canada among the ‘most expensive mobile […]

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The Cloud

The “cloud” has come to mean the storing and accessing of data (including programs) over the internet rather than on on our device (computer, phone or otherwise). The official definition of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of […]

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The Information Superhighway

In 1994 the Canadian government formed the Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC). The Council submitted it’s report, which contained 300 recommendations in September 1995 with a final report in 1997. The irony that a copy of either of the reports seemingly cannot be found on-line is truly a breathtaking commentary on (___fill in the blank___). […]

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The Global Village

Famously this photo was taken from Apollo 8 in 1968. It’s been called “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken.” For our purposes it may be seen as reflecting the illusion of a smaller world that the evolution of communications technologies has delivered to us. jon

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