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Dwayne Winseck
@mediamorphis
Professor, Carleton U. Coms & Media industries+history. Director Canadian Media Concentration Research Project & Global Media & Internet Concentration Project.
Jan 4, 2023 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Some strange alchemy in the Tribunal's rejection of @CompBureau bid to block the Rogers/Shaw deal. Eg the Bureau expert's models predicted modest price ↑ in AB & BC if deal approved. But when the Tribunal gave ctl of that model to Rogers' expert to 'adapt' to include: 1/X #CTRS a. Israel's assumptions + b. the hypothetical cost savings + other benefits Videotron is said to achieve via web of contracts w/ post merger Rogers those modest ↑ magically turn into huge price ↓. 2/ #CRTC
Nov 28, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A couple of things I learned during the 1989 protests in #China that may be of help to other lao wai wanting to understand current protests: 1. Students will lead but they won't be the only ones; far from it. 1/x 2. The Chinese Communist Party isn't a monolithic block. There are conservative hardliners who brook no dissent & will call for a crackdown fast (Deng Xiaoping then, Xi Jinping now). But, also reformers (Zhao Ziyang in '89, but who now?). 2/
Nov 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Some good lines by @TomValletti in @simonvandorpe pc. Google "created a moat to make it easy to get into the platform & impossible to get out[;]..
2/3 of searches..don’t leave the platform... I was there ..to pull out the BS..& I worked my ass off". #CTRS ftm.eu/articles/maver… 2/ Scale, speed & supranat'l scale distinguishes big tech power now from when antitrust mvmt emerged in early 20C in response to Standard Oil. Scale allows these firms to threaten govts, as Facebook is doing now in Canada wrt to the Online News Act bill, ie deplatform news'. #C18
Apr 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 7 min read
2 announcements: 1. the website for our
@SSHRC_CRSH-supported @GMICProject is up. gmicp.org The project brings together 54 researchers + a dzn policy, industry & civil society partners to study digital & trad'l coms, Internet & media industries in ~40 countries. 2. Our inaugural conference will be held Aug. 18-19: Digital Coms & Media Markets: Power, Policy & Global Perspectives. It is open to the public w/ registration details to come soon. gmicp.org/summer-confere…
Apr 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 7 min read
2 announcements: 1. the website for our @SSHRC_CRSH-supported @GMICProject is up. gmicp.org The project brings together 54 researchers + a dzn policy, industry & civil society partners to study digital & trad'l coms, Internet & media industries in ~40 countries. Our inaugural conference will be held Aug. 18-19: Digital Coms & Media Markets: Power, Policy & Global Perspectives. It is open to the public w/ registration details to come soon. gmicp.org/summer-confere…
Apr 20, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Almost choked on b'fast this AM w/ this credulous front page @globeandmail story on how Rogers is pushing Xplornet to @ISED_CA & @CompBureau as its preferred option to replace the mobile wireless operations of Shaw that it seeks to buy. #CRTC theglobeandmail.com/business/artic… @FP_Champagne For 1, this isn't news. It’s been in the works for over a month w/ Rogers doing everything it can to scupper other bids from, eg. from Videotron, Globalive, etc. Less credulous journos might raise a few Qs about this vs serving as transmission paths from Rogers to GM readers. 2/X
Feb 17, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Media framing of ongoing events in Ottawa & elsewhere in Canada as a protest against Covid-19 public health measures is misleading. The journalists do so in this article do & so does a lot of the coverage. theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic… #EmergenciesAct #OttawaSiege The #OttawaSiege, #AmbassadorBridgeblockade #Coutts were not conceived of or organized by those opposed to public health-related restrictions, eg. vax mandates, etc., but by a hardcore, long-standing group of rightwing extremists in Canada w/ US & int'l support. 2/
Feb 17, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Tales from the puppy park & another night under #OttawaSiege. Early on in #OttawaOccupied a neighbour had just finished her jog when she faced 2 thugs demanding that she remove her mask, or else. They were fighting for her freedom, didn't she get it? Tale #2: I'm now familiar w/ specific trucks. On the way home, 2 were filling petrol cans @ the nearby gas station, likely for delivery to Parliament Hill. There was s/t different this time, tho: there were no CDN flags flapping in the wind, but the flag shafts were still there.
Feb 15, 2022 • 100 tweets • 51 min read
Incoming monster thread: y'day my @Carleton colleague @leahwest_nsl argued the Govt “must believe the protests rise to the level of a national emergency” to invoke the #EmergenciesAct for the 1st time since its creation by a @CPC_HQ Govt in 1988 1/X While #natsec law is outside my wheelhouse of expertise, my work regularly bumps up against such issues & has forever focused on Qs about coms, society & democracy. As such, I want to weigh in with a few thoughts of my own & hope that I have something worthwhile to say. 2/x