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Language: English
Published by Wadsworth Pub Co, 1992
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- Title
- International Communications: History, Conflict and Control of the Global Metropolis
- Author
- Fortner, Robert S.
- Publisher
- Wadsworth Pub Co
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0534190928
- ISBN 13
- 9780534190927
The text moves from an overview of international communication systems and their role in politics to a brief discussion of the technical capabilities and constraints of those systems. The next five chapters discuss the history and development of international systems and a final chapter outlines future possibilities. Throughout the book there is an emphasis on systems and structures, the architecture of international communication.
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1. Introduction to International Communication. 2. The Global Metropolis: A Theoretical Perspective. 3. Technical Dimensions of International Communication. 4. The Birth of Modern International Communication: 1835-1913. 5. Exploiting New Possibilities in a Postwar Environment: 1914-1932. 6. The Triumph of International Propaganda: 1933-1945. 7. A New Postwar Environment: Developing and Crumbling Hegemonies: 1946-1969. 8. Periphery versus Core in the Global Metropolis: 1970-1985. 9. Political and Economic Turmoil in the Global Metropolis: 1986-Present. 10. The Future of the International Communication System. Appendices. Glossary. References. Index.
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