Redefining Media: Media Democracy and Community Radio
A CKUT 20th Anniversary Event
October 19th-21st, 2007
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
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Saturday, Oct 20th, 2007, 4pm - Shatner Ballroom, 3480 McTavish, 3rd floor
Community Radio and the CRTC
Hear about the Canadian community radio sector's relationship to its federal licencing and regulating body, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Learn about the CRTC's ongong diversity hearings and the role community radio has to play in Canada's media landscape.
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Speakers:
Evan Light, NCRA
Evan Light started participating in community radio in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey in 1993 and is currently a member of the board of directors of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) and a longtime volunteer at CKUT Radio in Montreal. He has worked extensively with the World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC), most recently participating in the development of the first world standard for community broadcasting policy. Evan is currently a doctoral student in communications at Universite du Quebec a Montreal where his research examines the intersections of democracy, alternative media and communication policy.
Normand Landry, McGill
Normand Landry is a doctoral student in communication studies at McGill University as well as a researcher at the Media@McGill unit for critical communications research. Before coming to McGill he was affiliated with the Communication Policy Research Laboratory (LRPC) at Universite de Montreal, where his work on global media governance and the World Summit on the Information Society was published, with Marc Raboy, as Civil Society, Communication, and Global Governance (Peter Lang Publishers). His work focuses on social movement theory, alternative media and democratic communications, and environmentalism.
Genvieve Bonin
Genevieve A. Bonin is a former freelance journalist and radio announcer, currently pursuing graduate studies (Ph.D.) in Communication Studies at McGill University. Her research involves the evaluation of CRTC policies and procedures in the context of radio licence renewals between 1997 and 2007. Her professional experience has also included work in human resources, communications, tourism and education in Montreal, Ottawa-Gatineau, Sudbury, Quebec City and Halifax. She holds degrees in communications, journalism and business administration.
Marc Raboy
Marc Raboy is the Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications
and is a Professor within the Department of Art History and Communication
Studies at McGill. He is a member of the international council of the
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and
is also a founding member of an international advocacy campaign:
Communication Rights in the Information Society.