Abstract
This article explores the discursive nationalization of the Internet in the context of Canadian new media policy. A textual analysis of the federal policy documents on new media (1994–2001) brings forth four discursive strategies through which technology is temporarily articulated as a material, economic, and spatial resource for the Canadian nation. It is argued that nationalism remains an important mechanism to legitimize policy recommendations. More importantly, nationalism is a means through which the format and social roles of an unknown and emerging technology become imagined in official discourse.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 448-473 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |