Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformation

Deibert, Ronald J.; Ronald J. Deibert

ISBN 10: 0231107137 / ISBN 13: 9780231107136

Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1997

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329 pp. Flawless copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformation
• Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231107137
• ISBN 13: 9780231107136
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Benjamin S. Farber (Cover Design); Robert Rauschenberg (Illustration)
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Media Studies, Mass Media, TV, Broadcasting
  • Computer Science & Technology, IT, Internet, etc.
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

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Synopsis

Interweaving media theory and historical analysis, this book explores the effect new digital-telecommunication technologies, which Deibert calls hypermedia, will have on the distribution of political power in the next century. 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.