Neuware - 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.

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Title: Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia : Communication and World Order Transformation
Publisher: Columbia University Press Sep 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0231107137
ISBN 13: 9780231107136
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 230 millimeters width by 154 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
Weight: 510 grams

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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.

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Ronald Deibert is professor of political science at the University of Toronto.

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