The ongoing interconnection of the world through modern mass media is generally considered to be one of the major developments underpinning globalization. This important book considers anew the globalization phenomenon in the media sphere.
* A provocative and original assessment of a key contemporary topic: the globalization of the media
* Rather than simply heralding globalization or warning of its dangers, the book analyses the extent to which media globalization is really taking place
* Because of its controversial stance, the book is likely to be used on a range of courses, primarily global media or cultural studies, but also international communications, war reporting and politics
* Crammed full of examples and includes a guide to internet resources for further study
http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745639093
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>From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in cliched claims about technology and history, writes David Edgerton. Now, in The Shock of the Old , Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising our ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. Our sense of technological time--and our thinking about technology and production, nationalism, war, and more besides--will all be changed, and to a surprising degree.
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryOther/HistoryofTechnology/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTMyMjgzNQ==
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