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This text challenges recent thoughts about digitalization, media convergence and information highways. It shows that telecommunications networks have always served as platforms for a broad array of content.

Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the "global media" between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies and the content they provided. Conventional histories suggest that the growth of global communications correlated with imperial expansion: an increasing number of cables were laid as colonial powers competed for control of resources. Winseck and Pike...

A history and political economy of global communication, showing how capitalism, multilateralism, modernization, and imperialism shaped the evolution of communication.

This volume considers the implications of recent, economic and technological restructuring for public communication. It explores how instrumental conceptions of communication divorced from concepts of citizenship, power and democracy frustrate the potentials of the technologies.