Communicating Europe : Technologies, Information, Events (Making Europe)

Fickers, Andreas/ Griset, Pascal

Palgrave Macmillan（2019/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 485 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230308039
• DDC分類 500

Full Description

Since the early years of telegraphy, modernity at large generated and has depended upon technologies of electrical/electronic communication and information circulation: from telephone, radio, and television to the internet. This volume reveals these connecting technologies' geopolitical importance and their crucial relationships with culture, commerce, and communities. Also the authors critically examine their spatial dimensions and transnational implications - as material objects with particular qualities, as elements in institutional complexes, and as 'vehicles' carrying complex symbolic meanings. Through in-depth assessments of critical, as well as mundane, events in the history of communications and information, these analyses will significantly alter conventional perspectives both on communications and on modern European history.

Contents

Introduction.- Who is in Charge? State & Private Initiative: A Shared Construction of New Technologies.- Not so Soft ... International Telecommunications Networks, Geo-Strategy, & Power.- European Techno-Diplomacy: Negotiating European Telegraph, Radio, & Television Standards & Regulations.- The Mediated Experience of Europe: On Electronic Presence, Liveness, & Participation in the European Media Landscape.- Europe as a Jamming Session?: Intended & Unintended Spill-Overs & Techno-Political Challenges of Cross-Border Communication.- Between Sciences & Geopolitics: Europe  the Proto-Digitization of Society.- Digital Convergence & Neo-Liberalism in Late-Twentieth-Century Europe.- Acceleration, Mobility, & the Rhetoric of the New: Onthe Historical Alignment & Symbolic Power of Media & Mobility.