Networking the World, 1794-2000
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (702 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081663288X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.
ARMAND MATTELART is Professor of Information Sciences and Communication and Head of the department at the University of Upper Brittany.
In the age of satellites and the Internet, worldwide communication has become increasingly unified amid overblown claims about the redemptive possibilities of international networks. He argues that the internationalization of communication was spawned by such Enlightenment ideals as universalism and liberalism, and exmines how the development of global communications has been inextricably linked to the industrial revolution, modern warfare, and the emergence of nationalism. 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
Juan del Valle said Globalization: New Networks, New Fragmentations. A. Mattelart walks the reader through the main historical stages of the development of world networks. His presentation provides a necessary interpretation to understand the current stage of globalization as the product of specific Western economic strategies. The last part of the book is perhaps more interesting to the reader preoccupied with the impact of globalization on the planet--as a catalyst of new orders, but also as a cause of less evident disorders. As the capitalistic practices from which it stemmed, globalization i. Ann Rosenthal said Again, Required Commmunication Scholar Reading. If you have not read this, do not consider yourself a human communication expert on any macro level. Network theorists? Include yourself as well.