Mapping world communication : war, progress, culture

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Mapping world communication : war, progress, culture

Armand Mattelart ; translated by Susan Emanuel and James A. Cohen

University of Minnesota Press, c1994

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La communication-monde : histoire des idées et des stratégies

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Description based on 3rd printing, 2002

Includes index

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Together, the media and the military have turned the 20th century into a spectacular but deadly show. How precisely this has happened, how it works and why, is the subject of this book. It offers a history of modern communications that exposes the connection between militarism and the evolution of the media industry. In this account, the history of modern media emerges clearly as a history of state control, wielded to discipline internal populations and combat external enemies. Mattelart demonstrates that in such a history, the use of media by the leisure and entertainment industry is only secondary, derivative of a media politics that is statist through and through. The book moves from the rise of the postal stamp to international telegraphy to the world press, and finds in each the traces of government intervention serving the specific needs of belligerency. Armand Mattelart is the author of, among other books, "Multinational Corporations and the Control of Culture", "Advertising International" and "Rethinking Media Theory".

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 War: the emergence of technical networks
  • the age of multitudes
  • the invisible management of the great society
  • the shock of ideologies
  • the school of ruse. Part 2 Progress: from progress to communication - conceptual metamophoses
  • the revolution of rising expectations
  • the international regulation of information flows: two colliding views. Part 3 Culture: the state in its ordinary dimension
  • the ascendancy of geo-economy: the quest for global culture
  • mediations and hybridizations: the revenge of the cultures
  • conclusion - the enigma.

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