Author : Michaela Hampf
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783593399539
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Book Synopsis Global Communication Electric by : Michaela Hampf
Download or read book Global Communication Electric written by Michaela Hampf and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.