Networking the World, 1794-2000 - Softcover

Mattelart, Armand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081663288X ISBN 13: 9780816632886

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2000

Synopsis

In the age of satellites and the Internet, worldwide communication has become increasingly unified amid overblown claims about the redemptive possibilities of international networks. But this rhetoric is hardly new. As Armand Mattelart demonstrates in Networking the World, 1794-2000, globalization and its attendant hype have existed since road and rail were the fastest way to move information.Mattelart plates contemporary global communication networks into historical context and shows that the networking of the world began much earlier than many assume, in the late eighteenth century. He argues that the internationalization of communication was spawned by such Enlightenment ideals as universalism and liberalism, and examines how the development of global communications has been inextricably linked to the industrial revolution, modern warfare, and the emergence of nationalism. Throughout, Mattelart eloquently argues that discourses of better living through globalization often mask projects of political, economic, and cultural domination.

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About the Author

ARMAND MATTELART is Professor of Information Sciences and Communication and Head of the department at the University of Upper Brittany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081663288X
• ISBN 13: 9780816632886
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144