Disintermediation: Cutting Out the Middle Man

Summary

Essentially, there are four things to be said about Canada and communications. Canada is famous for: • its leadership in the innovative use of telecommunications technology • its scholarship in the field of communications, beginning with Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, who singlehandedly provoked-the whole world into a scholarly debate about media effects • proving that you don’t have to be underdeveloped to be agonising over what is too loosely called ‘cultural imperialism’ • the serious thought it gives to public aspects of the organisation and encouragement of the communications arts.