
	Where results make sense

Topic: Harold Innis

Related Topics

Desmond Morton

Donald Creighton

Innis College

Margaret Macmillan

Patrick Watson

Staples Thesis

Laurier LaPierre

Media ecology

University of Toronto

Marshall McLuhan

Michael Ignatieff

Canada US politics compared

George Woodcock

List of historians

List of Canadian historians

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Harold Adams Innis
		Harold Innis has been called "the first Canadian-born social scientist to achieve an international reputation" and "the father of Canadian Economic History." He was the second president of the Economic History Association (1942-1944) and the fifty-fourth President of the American Economic Association (1951).
		Harold Adams Innis was born on November 5, 1894, in Otterville, Ontario, the first born of William Anson and Mary (Adams) Innis.
		Innis found it to be too interventionist given what he thought to be the unreliable state of the economics on which it was based.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/Neill.Innis (2118 words)

	Innis, Harold Adams
		Innis, Harold Adams, political economist and pioneer in communication studies (b at Otterville, Ont 5 Nov 1894; d at Toronto 8 Nov 1952).
		Innis also opposed the continentalist school and argued that Canada's political boundaries were the logical outcome of Canada's economic history - contrary to the tenets of CONTINENTALISM.
		Innis had few followers during his life, though since his death he has secured admirers from several different academic disciplines, ranging from Marshall MCLUHAN in communications to Canadian Marxists interested in his study of the interrelations between economics, politics and society.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004004 (702 words)

	Harold Innis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894-November 8, 1952) was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of many seminal works on Canadian economic history and on media and communications.
		Innis' primary contribution to the theory of communication, written in Empire and Communications, was to divide media into time biased (or binding) media and space biased (or binding) media.
		Marshall McLuhan was a colleague and student of Innis' at the University of Toronto, and he built on many of Innis' ideas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harold_Innis (371 words)

	Harold Adams Innis: The Bias of Communications & Monopolies of Power
		Innis tests the oral form as it reacts in many different written cultures, just as he tests the effects of time-structured institutions in their varieties of contact with space-oriented societies" (x).
		Innis would, for example, be fascinated by the Nisga'a treaty negotiations in British Columbia, where a time-biased, marginalized and predominantly oral culture is attempting to communicate with a space-biased culture transfixed by the rule of written law.
		Innis’ central focus is the social history of communication media; he believed that the relative stability of cultures depends on the balance and proportion of their media.
	www.media-studies.ca /articles/innis.htm (2841 words)

	SPT v9n2: Canada's Three Mute Technological Critics by James Gerrie
		Innis knew from personal experience how tempting it was for social scientists to accede to "appeals to utility and immediate application" to the detriment of the ceaseless task of understanding the nature and implications of such action (Creighton 1957, 130).
		Innis seems to describe such a fundamental possibility when he notes that "civilization [is] a struggle between those who know their limitations and those who do not" (Innis 1980, 5.33).
		Innis suggests that modern means of mass communication promote such a tactic when he states that "[modern politics is characterized by a] necessity of stressing continuous political and legal change as a device for dominating news" (Innis 1980, 5.24).
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/SPT/v9n2/gerrie.html (8793 words)

	mTheory98: Maureen McIntyre: Harold Innis-A Canadian Communication Theorist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harold Innis was a Canadian economic historian who, through a series of books traced the growth of our communication systems with the history of the development of Canada.
		Innis was convinced that "neotechnic capitalism" with its expression in mechanized communication-for example, print, TV, and radio--would precipitate a profound crisis of civilization.
		Innis was not anti-American since he recognized we have received many benefits from our relations with the United States, adopting some of the political attitudes from their republic, but he also viewed America as a great threat to our national culture.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/mtheory/vol2/mcintyre.htm (753 words)

	Harold Adams Innis and the Discovery of Communication Theory: Sources, Circumstances, and Significance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Innis proposed a reverse perspective on the frontier experience and its implications for the connectedness of east and west, Europe and North America, past and present.
		Innis' direct and unequivocal response to Turner's revolutionary 1897 essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," was "the significance of communication," in North American history.
		Innis emphatically declined his predecessors' Whig interpretation of communication development, their belief that technical and institutional advances in communication inevitably made for improvements in social conditions.
	www.hum.huji.ac.il /american/en/ongoing_view.asp?id=7 (3055 words)

	Harold Innis: A Contemporary Perspective, Cathy Strom, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Innis may not have witnessed television's golden era or the birth of the digital age, but his observations on print, radio, and film media can be applied to understanding other forms of media, as I intend to demonstrate in this article.
		Innis made an important observation when he said that it was difficult to assess the nature of our own culture when we are so much a part of it.
		Were Innis alive today, he would note that such broad-scale ignorance left the door wide open for "monopolies of knowledge" to advance their own interests, which is indeed what happened.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/mTheory/vol3/strom/innis.htm (1610 words)

	Harold Innis
		Innis alternative - role of communication media in the organisation and administration of various social formations.
		Innis - particularly concerned with communication media "bias" towards space administration, and/or the temporal survival of structures of power.
		Innis - the most critical factor in society is how means of communication create a framework of limits and boundaries within which social power (as well as modes of cognition) operate.
	www.comms.dcu.ie /flynnr/harold_innis.htm (500 words)

	Harold Innes
		Harold Innis received his Ph.D. degree in economics at the University of Chicago at a time when Robert E. Park and George Herbert Mead were teaching communication.
		Innis sees communication media as extensions of the human mind and believes that the primary interest of any historical period is a kind of bias resulting from the predominant media in use.
		Orality in the twilight of humanism: a critique of the communication theory of Harold Innis' by Ian Angus.
	pomo.freeservers.com /innes.html (515 words)

	History and Communications: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, the Interpretation of History. by James W. Carey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Innis was a historian of Canada, indeed of North America, for he understood the combined leap of England, Spain, and France as an episode in which a distant `backtier' controlled a frontier along routes of commodities and culture, transportation and communication.
		Innis was concerned with changes in economics and politics, commodities and power, political practices and concrete lifeways, and he aimed to illuminate a crisis in contemporary politics.
		Innis was too original and idiosyncratic a thinker to be hooked up with any school, and his work will stand or fall on its own.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/743/communications2.html (2065 words)

	Beale
		Innis is often held responsible for influencing the reigning generation of nationalist, communication and cultural studies scholars and bureaucrats, through a combined legacy of 'dependency' political economy and - depending on one's point of view - the anti-populist, or nationalist, Massey cultural ethos.
		Innis' position is difficult to identify in descriptions of the "elite nationalism" of the Massey Commission; moreover, concentration on that elite may have retrospectively eliminated many Canadians who contributed to the development of policies for the arts in Canada.
		Innis' papers and correspondence in the Archives of the University of Toronto Library were examined by the author while researching "Harold Innis: Patterns in Communication" a 52-minute documentary (1990).
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/7.1/Beale.html (5159 words)

	Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis
		It may be a mere imputation that Innis was from the beginning self-conscious of his role as prophet, but that Innis assumed this role, whether deliberate and self aware or not, is evident from Watson's exhaustive and exhausting exposure of Innis's analysis of the advance of Western civilization.
		The term "cyclonics," by which Innis pointed to the dynamics of an economy passing from one general equilibrium to another under the impetus of technological change, is given a passing nod in two pages (159-60).
		Watson misses the fact that Innis was not the only one dealing with the generality of his concern in the middle years of the twentieth century, though Innis took a different approach.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/1055.shtml (1351 words)

	Harold Adams Innis Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Harold Adams Innis was born in 1894 in Oxford County in southwestern Ontario.
		Harold Innis started his schooling in Sunday school and the local one-room public school, moving on to the nearby Otterville High School and then to Woodstock Collegiate Institute.
		Innis went on to explore this perspective in a series of studies and seminal essays--Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy (1940) and Essays in Canadian Economic History, edited by Mary Quayle Innis (1954).
	www.bookrags.com /biography/harold-adams-innis (733 words)

	INNIS, HAROLD ADAMS. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of Canada’s leading economic historians, Innis wrote about various facets of Canadian culture and economy.
		Innis’ work underscored the relationship of Canada to Western civilization.
		He taught at the Univ. of Toronto from 1920 until his death in 1952.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/in/Innis-Ha.html (66 words)

	Innis Found Truth on the Edge :: tyeebooks.ca
		Innis chose to explore the economics of this country, doing "dirt research" by travelling from coast to coast (often at his own expense).
		Innis stayed where he was, defending liberal arts programs when they might have been cut to help the war effort.
		Innis could get away with it, but it was not a method he could teach his students.
	thetyee.ca /Books/2006/09/12/HaroldInnis (2177 words)

	Harold Adams Innis Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Aside from his publications Innis exerted tremendous influence through his position as head of the University of Toronto's Department of Political Economy; later he was also dean of the graduate school.
		Although Innis eventually made a reputation which placed him in the forefront of his contemporary economic historians and made him welcome in such diverse centers of learning as Chicago, Oxford, and Moscow, the atmosphere in which he was raised was more rustic than sophisticated.
		Innis was born on 5 November 1894 on a farm near Otterville, Ontario.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/harold-adams-innis-dlb (211 words)

	Bonnett, “The Oral Tradition in 3D: Harold Innis, Information Visualisation and the 3D Historical Cities ...
		To facilitate the material, cultural and spiritual regeneration of the West, Innis pressed scholars to identify the long-term economic, social and cultural trends that defined and constrained the present (Innis “Cultural Factors”, 83-87, 102).
		To identify and represent such patterns Innis argued economic history should use “grappling irons with which to lay hold of areas on the fringe of economics, whether in religion or in art, and with which, in turn, to enrich other subjects, as well as to rescue economics from...
		Innis believed that a culturally vibrant and temporally aware society was one in which its participants were able to master and manipulate their information environments.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/chwp/CHC2003/Bonnett2.htm (2073 words)

	[No title]
		Innis' interest in the time-space problem came by way of his painstaking and exhaustive accounts of the Canadian economy and the major Canadian staples industries (fur trade, mining, and cod fisheries).
		Innis believed that each mode of communication, and hence society, shared a particular bias toward time or space, leading to an unstable society.
		What Innis feared most as a result of the bias of communication, especially spatial, was the one-sided domination of power, politics, information, and knowledge, what he ambiguously referred to as "monopolies," because he saw them as detrimental to human freedom, cultural salvation, and a healthy societal balance.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/Family_Viewing.html (2401 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Innis
		Innis, Harold Adams INNIS, HAROLD ADAMS [Innis, Harold Adams] 1894-1952, Canadian political economist, b.
		Innis, Roy INNIS, ROY [Innis, Roy] (Roy Emile Alfredo Innis), 1934-, American civil-rights leader, b.
		Harold Innis: an intellectual at the edge of empire.(Ideas to Work With)(Critical essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Innis (377 words)

	Canadian Dimension / Articles » Harold Innis: An Intellectual at the Edge of Empire (Mel Watkins)
		Innis, as economic historian, wrote about Canada in the 1920s and 1930s in two great books on the fur trade and the cod fisheries (grubby rather than grabby topics, I grant) in which he laid out the political economy of Canada, providing the material base for understanding the emergence of Canadian capitalism.
		Innis created what came to be called the “staple approach,” about an economy that specialized in exporting natural resources, or staples, to the imperial metropolis.
		In the 1940s and until his death, Innis turned his attention to the study of civilizations, and of empires — of how they were molded by the prevailing media of communication — with Innis becoming, along with Marshall McLuhan, one of the founding gurus of the new field of communications studies.
	canadiandimension.com /articles/2006/07/07/558 (1316 words)

	Harold Innis (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Innis was born in rural Ontario and went to McMaster University.
		Innis' theory of communication was to divide the subject into two.
		Innis College at the University of Toronto is named after him.
	harold-innis.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (345 words)

	Canadian Journal of Communication - Vol. 26, No. 3 (2001)
		Abstract: The thinking of Harold Innis on the relationship of communication to the rise and fall of historical forms of social organization has been little exploited in the context of contemporary organizational dynamics.
		Many of the patterns Innis pointed to can equally be found in the formation and disappearance of large organizations in our time, even though the time scale is radically compressed compared to his historical analyses.
		In one respect, however, a new pattern is emerging in the postmodern organization, where the "vernacular" is that of the writers, not the written, with paradoxical implications for the standard theory of rational organization, enunciated by Weber and others.
	www.cjc-online.ca /viewarticle.php?id=655 (277 words)

	Harold Innis in the New Century
		A collection of original essays that moves beyond the prevalent view of Harold Innis as a technological determinist, Harold Innis in the New Century brings his innovative ideas to bear upon a variety of contemporary issues, such as postmodernism, liberalism, gender, and cultural policy.
		Harold Innis in the New Century is a valuable resource for scholars and students of Canadian studies, communication studies, cultural studies, economic history, and political science.
		"Harold Innis in the New Century crackles with interdisciplinary tensions in a very stimulating way, and almost every piece in the collection has an eye on a context for Innis's ideas that is in some way a little different -- from the Whig tradition and the Scottish Enlightenment to cybernetics and aesthetics.
	www.mqup.mcgill.ca /book.php?bookid=634 (287 words)

	Harold Adams Innis: The Bias of Communications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harold Adams Innis was born in 1894 near Hamilton, Ontario, graduated from McMaster just before WW1 and saw front-line duty in France.
		To read Innis is to become aware, intensely and immediately, of our conditioning by the social process of modern technology: a social process which thematizes reason ("machine rationality"), will ("utility as the modern nullity"), feeling ("present mindedness"), and organization ("spatially biased media of communication").
		(Kroker suggests that Innis "sought to explore the interstices of the technological habitat.") Traditionally, the universities have attempted to monopolize certain kinds of information, as have professional associations such as doctors or engineers or lawyers, as have governments.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~media113/innis.htm (1355 words)

	Innis College Alumni Association & Community Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Harold Innis Research Foundation is pleased to present the Harold Innis Research Foundation Awards.
		The Award was established in 1997 to recognize Graduate and Undergraduate students of the University of Toronto who are in financial need and have demonstrated an ability to apply the concepts of Harold Innis in their studies.
		Graduate: Applicants must submit a proposal for a piece of original work which extends Innis' work in new directions or which demonstrates their ability to apply the concepts and theories of Harold Innis to the area of study or field in which they are pursuing their graduate work.
	www.utoronto.ca /innis/alumni/hirf.html (272 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)