Global Communication Electric
Global Communication Electric - Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy (Paperback)
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As catalysts of our present global condition, telegraphs are emblems of modernity. The establishment of a worldwide network of landline and submarine cable connections in the mid-nineteenth century fostered the emergence of new structures and patterns of interaction on a global scale. World politics and a global economy only became possible with the creation of "global communication electric."
This book examines the emergence of this global media system between 1860 and 1930 in four sections--"Inter-Nationalisms," "Agents-Actors," "Use-News," and "Space-Time"--that aim to broaden and challenge popular conceptions of telegraphy. In exploring the varied uses of telegraphy, real or imagined, "Global Communication Electric" expands the notion of the telegraph as a globalizing medium: of connection as well as friction; of political, social, and economic entanglement as well as disentanglement; and of crossing as well as creating distance in space and time.
This book examines the emergence of this global media system between 1860 and 1930 in four sections--"Inter-Nationalisms," "Agents-Actors," "Use-News," and "Space-Time"--that aim to broaden and challenge popular conceptions of telegraphy. In exploring the varied uses of telegraphy, real or imagined, "Global Communication Electric" expands the notion of the telegraph as a globalizing medium: of connection as well as friction; of political, social, and economic entanglement as well as disentanglement; and of crossing as well as creating distance in space and time.