International Communication and Global News Networks: Historical Perspectives (International Association for Media and Communication Research)

This book demonstrates how the histories of empires, nations, and large business enterprises are embedded in international communication and media history. In its focus on historical case studies, it shows how the large-scale processes we associate with globalization, such as time-space compression, work themselves out in specific local and regional contexts. It also deals with the history of news as an internationally traded commodity. The book illuminates four closely related strands of communication and media history: information economics; news agency history; communication networks and geopolitical formations and identities; and, the imapct of new communication technologies