Mapping World Communication
Mapping World Communication
Summary
This text offers a history of modern communications that exposes the connection between militarism and the evolution of the media industry.
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Mapping World Communication by Armand Mattelart
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".MICHELE MATTELART is currently doing research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. From 1963 to 1973 she taught at the Catholic University of Chile and helped found a center for national study there. During Allende's rule she was involved with both the national television service and publishing for youth.
ARMAND MATTELART is Professor of Information Sciences and Communication and Head of the department at the University of Upper Brittany. From 1962 to 1973 he taught at the University in Santiago, Chile, where he worked closely with the Allende government in the attempt to create new initiatives in popular communication.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780816622627 |
| ISBN 10 | 0816622620 |
| Title | Mapping World Communication |
| Author | Armand Mattelart |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press |
| Year published | 1994-07-11 |
| Number of pages | 294 |
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