This is the first report of the team’s annual two-part series on the state of the communication, Internet and media industries in Canada, under the banner of the Global Media and Internet Concentration (GMIC) project, a new SSHRC-supported project directed by Dwayne Winseck bringing together fifty scholars in forty countries.

With mobility restricted amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadians leaned more than ever on internet access for work, school, play, and connecting with one another, enlarging the importance of major digital companies in each of our lives. Accordingly, the pandemic had major effects on the twenty sectors of the communication, Internet and media industries examined in this report.

Recommended citation: Winseck, Dwayne, 2021, “Growth and Upheaval in the Network Media Economy, 1984-2020”, https://doi.org/10.22215/gmicp/2021.1. Global Media and Internet Concentration Project, Carleton University.