1. CONTRASTS IN CLUSTERING: CANADIAN NEW MEDIA
John Britton
with Richard Smith and
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

2. DEFINITION
New media = interactive digital media = multimedia
An interrelated set of economic activities that produce digital, text, audio and interactive computer graphic material which may be accessed through the Internet, films, and related communication channels

3. BACKGROUND
Geography
Innovation
Entertainment markets
Business markets

6. INTEGRATING RESEARCH RESULTS
Practical issues
Conceptual approach
Can we understand locational differences in new media in terms of antecedent patterns of development?

7. ANTECEDENT FACTORS
Film production
Television networks
Corporate functions

8. AN INDUSTRY OF SMALL-SCALE FIRMS?
Locational exceptions: games developers
Why Montreal and Vancouver as nodes of games production?
Are Electronic Arts and Ubisoft anchor-firms?

9. MAINSTREAM NEW MEDIA
Production, the Project-based System and Finance
Labour and Learning

10. LOCAL RELATIONS VS GLOBAL LINKS
I Input and circulation of technical knowledge
II Market Relations
III Production relationships
(a) Collaboration
(b) Outsourcing/sub-contracting

11. NEW MEDIA IN PUBLIC VIEW
Contrasts in associational development
Contrasts in public initiatives
Concluding comments