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Description
Despite setbacks and cutbacks, Canada leads the world in northern and Aboriginal communications. This book provides a comprehensive survey of communications in the circumpolar region, focusing on the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic but also looking at the circumpolar North (Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, and the Nordic/Saami nations). Radio, television, magazines, newspapers, and web sites are all covered. As technologies and access improve, Aboriginal people are increasingly taking control of their own representation and consolidating their presence in northern media. Alia concludes that Canada will maintain its leadership in northern communications in the years ahead, given the topic's far-reaching importance and international context.
Contributor Notes
Valerie Alia is Reader in Media Ethics and Culture, in the School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture at the University of Sunderland, and a Senior Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.
Editorial Reviews
[Un/Covering the North] provides a comprehensive survey of communications in the circumpolar region, covering radio, television, magazines, newspapers, and web sites.
— University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries (2000)
Valerie Alia’s study of the representation of northern First Nations and Inuit by the media of this country is a book that has been badly needed. Alia’s findings are impressive.
— Canadian Literature
A much awaited, needed and welcome history of the interrelationships between ‘news, media and Aboriginal people’ in the Canadian North. Un/Covering the North is enjoyable reading in a well written, understandable style that will appeal to a broad readership far beyond students and scholars in media and communications studies.
— Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 2000, 24 (1)
Out of print
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