Jean-Paul Baillargeon, editor - The Handing Down of Culture, Smaller Societies and Globalization

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Claude Martin

Ph.D. in economics, Université d’Aix-Marseille II, 1983. Professor at the Département de communication, Université de Montréal. Codirector of the Laboratory on Popular Culture. Member of the Centre de recherche en littérature québécoise (CRELIQ), Université Laval. Has published, notably, in 1997: “Walking on a Tightrope. The Markets of Cultural Products in Québec,” in E. G. McAnany, Ed., Media, Culture and Free Trade: NAFTA’s Impact on Cultural Industries in Canada, Mexico and the United States, Austin, University of Texas Press; 1994, with Denis Saint-Jacques, Jacques Lemieux and Vincent Nadeau, Ces livres que vous avez aimés. Les best-sellers au Québec de 1970 à aujourd’hui, Québec, Nuit Blanche Éditeur; and, in 2002: “Culture et Économie,” in Denise Lemieux, Ed., Traité de la culture, Québec, Les Éditions de l’IQRC.

John Meisel

Ph.D., London School of Economics. Emeritus professor, Queen’s University, Sir Edward Peacock Chair in political science. Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Democracy. Among his publications, in 1999, with Guy Rocher, Arthur Silver et al. : As I Recall: Si je me souviens bien, Montréal, IRPP; also “Living in a Bilingual Society,” in Canadian Horizon; and in 1996: “Extinction Revisited: Culture and Class in Canada,” in Helen Holmes and David Taras, Eds., Seeing Ourselves: Media, Power and Policy in Canada, Toronto, Harcout Brace. His name was given recently to a price of the Canadian Cultural Research Network for underlining excellency in cultural research. He was the first recipient of it.

Guy Mercier

Ph.D. in geography, Université Laval. Professor at the Département de géographie, Université Laval. Director of the Centre interuniversitaire sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions (CÉLAT). Among his publications, in 1999, as coeditor with Claude Bélanger and Mario Bédard: L’avenir municipal. Dynamiques québécoises et canadiennes, Québec, Éditions Sylvain Harvey; in 1998, as coeditor with Jacques Bethemont: La ville en quête de nature, Québec and Lyon, Septentrion and Centre Jacques-Cartier.

Frits Pannekoek

Ph.D., Queen’s University. Director of Documentary Resources, University of Calgary. Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Design and the Faculty of Communications and Culture, at the same university. Responsible for the digitalization of the written heritage of the major collections of Alberta. Has published, in 2000: “The Commodification and Marginalization of Indigenous Culture,” Conference TEND, Abu Dabi; “The Knowledge Workers of Tomorrow and the Commodification of Information,” Arabian Council on Human Resource Development, Bahrain; “The Canadian Information Deficit,” CIDOC Conference, Ottawa.

Serge Proulx

Professor at the Département de communication, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Has published notably, in 1989, with Philippe Breton: L’explosion de la communication. La naissance d’une nouvelle idéologie, Paris and Montréal, La Découverte and Boréal; editor, in 1998, of: Accusé de réception. Le téléspectateur construit par les sciences sociales, Paris and Québec, L’Harmattan and Les Presses de l’Université Laval; coeditor, in 1999, with André Vitalis: Vers une citoyenneté simulée. Médias, réseaux et mondialisation, Rennes, Éditions Apogée; coeditor, in 2000, of a special issue of Sociologie et Sociétés: “Les promesses du cyberespace. Médiations, pratiques et pouvoirs à l’heure de la communication électronique.”

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