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8%OFFArmand Mattelart - Networking the World, 1794-2000 - 9780816632886 - V9780816632886
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Networking the World, 1794-2000

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Description for Networking the World, 1794-2000 Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: PDX; TJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
189g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816632886
SKU
V9780816632886
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