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I first met Paul Heyer in 2004 at the Media Ecology Association’s annual convention at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He suggested that I apply to teach some courses in communication at Wilfrid Laurier University, which I did a few years later. While there I enjoyed talking to him about our common interests in Marshall […]
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Dear All, We are happy to team up with the Harold Innis Foundation at Innis College. On the evening of November 7, award-winning journalist and political commentator Andrew Coyne will deliver the 2017 Harold Innis Lecture: Crisis in the Media: Causes, Consequences and Cures. Coyne is a national affairs columnist for Postmedia News and a Fellow at University […]
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By Phil A. Rose, McMaster University HAROLD INNIS’S HISTORY OF COMMUNICATIONS: PAPER & PRINTING — ANTIQUITY TO EARLY MODERNITY. Edited by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, & Paul Heyer. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 185 pp. ISBN: 9781442243385. With their recently published version of Harold Innis’s History of Communications: Paper and Printing — […]
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A New Book of Harold Innis Writings: Harold Innis Reflects: Memoir & WWI Writings/Correspondence
Harold Innis Reflects: Memoir & WWI Writings/ Correspondence Edited by William J. Buxton; Michael R. Cheney & Paul Heyer –Foreword by Anne Innis Dagg Offering fresh insight into the early life of Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952), this volume makes available a number of previously unpublished writings from the renowned Canadian economic historian and media scholar. Part I, Innis’s […]
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David Cayley on Harold Innis
Harold Innis (1894 – 1952) My thanks to Phil Rose for pointing out this important media ecology resource. From David Cayley’s Website: For more than thirty years (1981-2012) I made radio documentaries for CBC Radio’s Ideas series. The most recent of the more than 250 programmes remain available on the Ideas website, but the rest languish […]
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The first figure on the left above represents orality, the next three indicate literacy, with a quill pen, book, and newspaper, while the final three are forms of electric or electronic mediums of the electronic age. The following excerpt is from from Logan, R.K. (2000). The Sixth Language: Learning a Living in the Internet Age. […]
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New Book – Harold Innis’s History of Communications: Paper & Printing – Antiquity to Early Modernity
Harold Innis’s History of Communications: Paper and Printing—Antiquity to Early Modernity Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture Editors William J. Buxton, Concordia University, Michael R. Cheney, University of Illinois, Springfield, Paul Heyer, Wilfrid Laurier University Contributor John Durham Peters, University of Iowa Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 ISBN 1442243392, 9781442243392 For decades, media historians have […]
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Harold Innis in uniform Harold Innis goes to war By MEL WATKINS – September 16, 2014 The great Canadian scholar Harold Innis fought and was wounded in the trenches in the First World War. The experience changed his life forever. So argues A. John Watson in his brilliant biography, Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold […]
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Harold Innis (1894-1952)canoeing on the Peace River, 1924 Harold Innis’s fur trade research in the summer of 1924 launched a celebrated academic career By Susan Pedwell When Harold Innis set off to explore the history of the fur trade in Alberta’s Peace River basin, he was limping from a shrapnel wound that had ripped open […]
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McLuhan Galaxy 
A Letter by Marshall McLuhan to Harold Adams Innis, March 14, 1951
(November 5, 1894 – November 8, 1952) Dear Innis, Thanks for the lecture re-print. This makes an opportunity for me to mention my interest in the work you are doing in communication study in general. I think there are lines appearing in Empire and Communications, for example, which suggest the possibility of organizing an entire […]
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