Manuel Castells Oliván is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works,entitled The Information Age:Economy,Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society,communication and globalization.
Frank Hawkins Underhill,SM,FRSC was a Canadian journalist,essayist,historian,social critic,and political thinker.
Canadian republicanism is a movement for the replacement of the monarchy of Canada and a monarch as head of state with a parliamentary republic and a democratically-selected Canadian as head of state. Republicans are driven by various factors,such as a perception of inequality in the concept of excluding all but members of the royal family from the position or the argument that Canadian independence will not be achieved until Canadians can choose their own head of state independently and democratically.
Mark Spicoluk is a Canadian musician,lifestyle content creator,and entrepreneur. He is best known as co-creator and yoga teacher for the lifestyle brand Boho Beautiful,his time as bass player with Avril Lavigne,and as the vocalist and bassist for the punk rock band Closet Monster. From 2012 to 2015 he appeared as a judge on YTV's The Next Star. He is also known as the founder of the indie record label Underground Operations,and his production credits on albums by artists such as Protest the Hero,Abandon All Ships,Stereos and DVBBS. Along with his musical and business accomplishments,he is also a strong animal rights and social justice advocate.
Michael Allen Geist is a Canadian academic,the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa and a member of the Centre for Law,Technology and Society. Geist was educated at the University of Western Ontario,Osgoode Hall Law School,where he received his Bachelor of Laws,Cambridge University,where he received a Master of Laws,and Columbia Law School,where he received a Master of Laws and Doctor of Law degree. He has been a visiting professor at universities around the world including the University of Haifa,Hong Kong University,and Tel Aviv University. He is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Raymond Holmes Souster was a Canadian poet whose writing career spanned over 70 years. More than 50 volumes of his own poetry were published during his lifetime,and he edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of poetry by others. A resident of Toronto all of his life,he has been called that city's "most loved poet".
The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism,Revolution and Propaganda is an independent and non-partisan think tank in Toronto,Ontario,Canada.
Guerrilla television is a term coined in 1971 by Michael Shamberg,one of the founders of the Raindance Foundation;the Raindance Foundation has been one of the counter-culture video collectives that in the 1960s and 1970s extended the role of the underground press to new communication technologies.
Thomas Christopher Collins is a Canadian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto from 2007 to 2023,the Bishop of Saint Paul in Alberta from 1997 to 1999,and Archbishop of Edmonton from 1999 to 2006. He was elevated to the rank of Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI on February 18,2012.
The Empire of Mind:Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement is a book by Michael Strangelove first published in 2005. It explores how digital piracy and cultural appropriation within art and popular culture by Internet users influences cultural reproduction within capitalism. It was a Canadian Governor-General’s Award finalist in the category of non-fiction in 2006.
Il costume di casa was originally an essay written by the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco,about "America's obsession with simulacra and counterfeit reality." It was later incorporated as the centrepiece of the anthology bearing the same name,a collection of articles and essays about Italian ideologies. The anthology contains a selection of essays taken from two Italian books by Eco:Il costume di casa and Sette anni di desiderio (1983). It was translated into English in 1986 as Faith in Fakes and later updated as Travels in Hyperreality in 1995.
Georges-Claude Guilbert is a French literary critic and academic who teaches American literature,gender studies,and popular culture. He is Professor in American Studies at the University of Havre,France.
Challenge for Change was a participatory film and video project created by the National Film Board of Canada in 1967,the Canadian Centennial. Active until 1980,Challenge for Change used film and video production to illuminate the social concerns of various communities within Canada,with funding from eight different departments of the Canadian government. The impetus for the program was the belief that film and video were useful tools for initiating social change and eliminating poverty. As Druik says,"The new program,which was developed in tandem with the new social policies,was based on the argument that participation in media projects could empower disenfranchised groups and that media representation might effectively bring about improved political representation." Stewart,quoting Jones (1981) states "the Challenge for Change films would convey messages from 'the people' to the government,directly or through the Canadian public."
Vodka eyeballing is the practice of consuming vodkas by pouring it into the eye sockets,where it is absorbed through the mucous membranes of the region into the bloodstream. Reports of this practice as a new fad surfaced in the media beginning in 2010,as hundreds of clips of persons purporting to engage in the practice were posted on YouTube. The practice is promoted by advocates as causing rapid intoxication;which is untrue,since the amount of alcohol absorbed by the eye is low.
The Heritage College &Seminary is a Baptist theological institute in Cambridge,Ontario,Canada. It is affiliated with the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada.
Paul Louis Ryan (1943–2013) was an American video artist and communications theorist. His video art encompassed water studies and demonstrations of what Ryan called “a yoga of relationships”or Threeing,culminating in his theoretical development of the Peircean relational circuit and Earthscore notational system.
Robert A. Hackett is a Canadian university professor and researcher. He has been a professor and researcher at the School of Communication in Simon Fraser University,Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada since 1984. His main areas of research include media activism,political communication and news analysis. Since 1993,he has co-directed NewsWatch Canada,a news media monitoring project based at Simon Fraser University.
Tom Sherman is an American-Canadian artist working in video,audio,radio,performance,sculpture and text/image. He is also a writer of nonfiction and fiction. He is a recipient of Canada's Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. He is a professor of video art at Syracuse University.
A YouTuber is an online personality or influencer who posts videos on the video-sharing platform YouTube,typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006.
Canadiana is a documentary web series about Canadian history. The first video in the series premiered on the Canadiana YouTube channel on August 14,2017. Episodes are hosted and feature on-location footage,cut-out archival animations and visual effects.
