David Sax, Comment Moderator, The Dirtiest Job on the Internet, Business Week, December 1, 2011.

For information and venue, see:
http://media.mcgill.ca/en/cablegate_event 

On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and a small number of media partners released thousands of U.S. embassy diplomatic cables in what came to be referred to as ‘Cablegate’. International diplomacy, journalism, and broader society were shaken by this extremely public disclosure of classified cables, which had been sent to the U.S. Department of State by its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world. Among numerous other revelations, the cables exposed U.S. government war crimes, government corruption in North Africa, and misdealing within the financial sector, igniting an intense debate on the future of diplomacy and the media.

On the one year anniversary of Cablegate, Media@McGill will be hosting a roundtable panel consisting of contributors to the upcoming book, Beyond WikiLeaks, to highlight the broader implications of the WikiLeaks’ publication of U.S. cables and the challenges it poses for networked journalism, media activism, risk society and freedom of expression.

Panelists: Lisa Lynch (Dept. Journalism, Concordia University), Patrick McCurdy (Dept. of Communication, University of Ottawa), Stefania Milan(The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto), and Arne Hintz (Dept. Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University).

Moderator: Marc Raboy, Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications, McGill University.

Bill C-11 (current pending legislation, Fall 2011)

Copyright Modernization Act
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=5144516

The Return of Copyright Reform
http://zone505.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/return-of-copyright-reform/ 

Dwayne Winseck, The Globe and Mail,ctober 25, 2011, Take Notice of the Slippery Slopes in the Copyright Modernization Act
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-culture/dwayne-winseck/take-notice-of-the-slippery-slopes-in-the-copyright-modernization-act/article2212937/ 

CAUT on Bill C-11
http://www.speakoutoncopyright.ca/blog/caut-bill-c-11 

Elizabeth May and Charlie Angus on Bill C-11, Oct 21 2011


Bill C-32(ca. 2010)

Government of Canada’s Balanced Copyright site:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/crp-prda.nsf/eng/home

Govt of Canada Copyright Consultations site (2009 consult)
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/home

List of submissions
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/h_00001.html?Open&c=42#itm42

Michael Geist ed, From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda.
http://www.irwinlaw.com/store/product/666/from–radical-extremism–to–balanced-copyright-

Sam Trosow on Bill C-32
http://samtrosow.ca/content/view/91/2/

UWO library-compilation of resources on library/educator responses to Bill C-32
https://www.lib.uwo.ca/blogs/digitalscholarly/2010/06/educators-and-s.html

Canadian Library Association on Bill C-32
http://www.cla.ca/Content/ContentFolders/NewsReleases/2010/Bill_C-32_CLA_Brief_final.pdf

Geist – Key Issues on Bill C-32
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5316/125/

The Fight for Fair Copyright (Canadian Federation of Students, May 25, 2010)

CBC’s Download Decade series
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/digital-culture/download-decade/ Outside Canada

Brett Gaylor – RIP! A Remix Manifesto
http://ripremix.com/

Appropriation Art – good links to resources. Check out video: Why Copyright? Canadian Voices on Copyright
http://www.appropriationart.ca/action/c32

Laura Murray’s site
http://www.faircopyright.ca/

Meera Nair’s Fair Duty site
http://fairduty.wordpress.com/

Students for Free Culture
http://freeculture.org/

Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/

Illegal Art
http://www.illegal-art.org/

Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture
http://www.free-culture.cc/

Lawrence Lessig’s Remix
http://remix.lessig.org/

Free Expression Policy project
http://www.fepproject.org/issues/copyright.html

Good Copy, Bad Copy – film about CR (Denmark, 2007)
http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/

Copyright, What’s Copyright? from the Media Education Lab, ca. 2009

Creative Commons

A Shared Culture, ca. 2008, by Jesse Dylan, Dir.

Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/ 

Creative Commons Canada
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Canada 

Lessig on Creative Commons, 2010

Google news on Facebook and privacy:
https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&hl=en&gl=ca&tbm=nws&btnmeta_news_search=1&q=facebook+and+privacy

Some updates from Zone 505:
http://zone505.wordpress.com/category/privacy/

Mediascapes3 on Privacy issues inc. Facebook
http://mediascapes3.wordpress.com/tag/privacy/

Nick Bilton – NY Times – May 12, 2010 – Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/technology/personaltech/13basics.html
And an amazing graphic of navigating your way through Facebook privacy options:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html?ref=personaltech

Miguel Helft – NY Times – October 18, 2010 – Facebook Acknowledges Privacy Issue With Applications
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/facebook-admits-to-privacy-issue-and-makes-fixes/

Africa is the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market and soon poised to have 735 million people using their phones for everything from transferring money to
tracking animals for wildlife studies, an industry group said Wednesday….

Choose a specific media policy issue and provide a critical analysis of the issue. This can be a Canadian, U.S., or international case study. It can be a contemporary media policy issue or an issue that has occurred in the past.  For ideas on media policy issues, see link here: http://coms225.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/media-policy-issues-ideas-for-the-assignment/

Details below

You will email it to me by 6pm EST to: professor.shade@gmail.com

The paper will be 10 pages in length, double-spaced.

In your paper you will:

Provide an overview of the issue/case: description, context.
This should be approximately 5 pages.

What is the media policy issue? Give information on how the media policy issue came to public and/or government attention.

Examine diverse stakeholders involved in the media policy issue and their positions.
This should be approximately 2-4 pages and may be integrated into the overview description.

Who are the various players in the media policy issue? Government? Public interest advocates? Advocacy groups? Industry? Ordinary citizens? What is their point of view about the media policy issue?

Discuss the importance of the media policy issue.
This should be approximately 1 page.

Why is the media policy issue you’re analyzing important? Why does it matter, and to whom?

Provide a bibliography and further resources.
This should be approximately 1 page (but could be more depending on how much material you are sourcing).  Further resources can be 1-3 sources that provide additional background information on the topic.

Sources can include: academic resources (from journals and books); government sites (e.g., CRTC, Industry Canada), news articles (online or from databases), industry news sources (consider the various sources you used for your media company analysis), public interest organizations.

See the following link to some useful online  sources on media policy issues:
http://coms225.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/other-resources-for-research/, and as well, specific resources related to policy: http://coms225.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/research-resources-on-policy/