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Laddar... Networking the World, 1794-2000av Armand Mattelart
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Starts out good, and overall is interesting, but it becomes progressively less so as it approaches the close. The final chapter is highly political, and so dense with culture critic language that some of the sentences are nearly incomprehensible. Interestingly, it references the time period at which 'information' is first applied outside of journalism (WWII). Briefly mentions transparency, but the concept actually occurs quite often. The book describes western and especially American philosophies of the free exchange of information, and how America equates that to free exchange of all commercial products. Although it doesn't mention Strauss or the neo-cons (mentions neo-liberals a lot), it does offer some interesting insight into the current American policy in Iraq. I'm still not sure whether or not 'cultural imperialism' exists, although I can accept 'cultural hegemony'--but this book offers a compelling suggestion that it does. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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