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Synopsis
Drawing on medium theory, which was first popularized by Marshall McLuhan, argues that world politics is currently undergoing rapid and fundamental transformations related to the advent of digital-electronic telecommunications. Portrays the emerging hypermedia environment as comprised of de-territorialized communities, fragmented identities, transnational corporations, and cyberspatial flows; but also of plural worlds, multiple realities and irrealities, and digital artifacts stitched together in a web of spectacle. Compares the change to the parchment codex and the rise of the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages and the development of the printing press and the medieval-to-modern transformation of political authority. Paper edition (10713-7), $17.50. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Book Description
Deibert tracks the transformation of Europe from the medieval to the modern and then turns to the hypermedia age, where new digital technologies such as the Internet, encryption, and high-resolution satellite imaging favor nonterritorial institutions and communities, shifting political authority and policymaking from individual nations to transnational corporations, global financial markets, and nongovernmental organizations and activists.
About the Author
RONALD DEIBERT is professor of political science at the University of Toronto.
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- PublisherColumbia Univ Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0231107129
- ISBN 13 9780231107129
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages334
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