Creating Ideas and Information: Studies in Communications and Technology

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

This book could serve as a school text for younger readers. It
concentrates on broadcast technology and what role the individual
(audience) has in the communications system, triangulated with the
business interests (profit making owners and advertisers). There are
seven major topics, including the CBC (as public television), Telidon,
computer-assisted graphics, mobile telephones, commercial radio
programming and Inuit broadcasting. I question the inclusion of
“Telidon,” since it appears to be a dead horse and especially since
its inclusion seems to be at the expense of excluding personal
computers, electronic newspapers, electronic bulletin boards, and the
like—material with which most young people are more familiar. More
young people have a computer than have a Telidon terminal. Some minor
inaccuracies such as “Ottawa Roughriders,” detract.