Dwayne R. Winseck is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. He is the author of Reconvergence: A Political Economy of Telecommunications in Canada and a coeditor of Democratizing Communication? Comparative Perspectives on Information and Power and Media in Global Context. Robert M. Pike is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen??'s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of many articles on the history of communications.