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Category Archives: Text
Why have graduate students?
I often say that I went to graduate school to become a grad student, and not a professor. And that my goal as tenured prof is to approach the state of graduate-studentness as much as possible (minus, of course, the poverty and angst). It is fair to say that during my stint as department chair …
NFL in Toronto? Reports of the death of the CFL are greatly exaggerated + Telcos are lame
I confess that when reading sports sections, I tend to prefer to read stuff about the business of sport over the stuff about players. For the past few weeks, there has been a buzz in the Canadian press (especially the Globe and Mail) about the possibility of a group of Toronto businessmen purchasing the Buffalo …
Report on the Music Industry in Canada + Radiohead
Here’s an interesting report from Shelley Stein-Sacks on the future of the Canadian Music Industry. Like all such reports, it relies too heavily on technology as a causal factor (it’s not) and doesn’t cite sources for some of its important claims (ie, don’t expect an academic paper), but the report is based on a bunch …
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Hypothesis on the Histories of Communication Studies in the U.S. and Canada
File this under “probably not news to lots of people up here.” This past week in proseminar we discussed competing historical accounts of the field of Communication Studies (recognizing that even what counts as “in” and “out” of that field is debatable). Naturally, one of the questions that arose concerned the differences between the field …
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Question of the Day
“You wanna see lots of strange early electronic instruments?” Why, in fact, yes I do.
Denounced by the Lawyer for Rush
Now that doesn’t happen every day. Yesterday I was part of a panel on sampling and copyright called “Cramping My Sampling” at the Pop and Policy Conference. The panel was set up for each person to give a 5-7 minute spiel and then the panelists talked with one another, after which the floor was opened …