eprintid: 19666
rev_number: 32
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creators_name: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
title: Editorial - Telecommunication and Globalization in the Nineteenth Century
subjects: 900
divisions: 72020
keywords: telecommunication, globalization, dematerialization, telegraph
cterms_swd: Telekommunikation
cterms_swd: Globalisierung
cterms_swd: Geschichte
abstract: Telecommunication systems dematerialize the information that they transmit and, thereby, detach the flow of information from the movement of material carriers such as people or goods. The immediate effect of such a dematerialization is a substantial gain in transmission speed, which has often been styled as the principal characteristic of telecommunication. Of far greater
significance – at least from an analytical perspective – is, however, the relative gain in information transmission speed as against the speed of movement of people or goods. Flows of dematerialized information work along a completely
new logic. It is one essential constituent of this logic that wherever telecommunication networks reach information outpaces material transport and can, therefore, be used to efficiently coordinate, control and command such material
movement. The telegraph as the first fully-fledged telecommunication system pioneered this qualitative change and introduced a new rationale to global communication – and, therefore, ultimately to globalization processes of the
nineteenth century.
date: 2010
publisher: Center for Historical Social Research
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00019666
ppn_swb: 1658805569
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196661
language: eng
bibsort: WENZLHUEMEEDITORIALT2010
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Köln
pagerange: 7-18
book_title: Global Communication. Telecommunication and Global Flows of Information in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century. Special Issue of Historical Social Research
editors_name: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
citation:   Wenzlhuemer, Roland  (2010) Editorial - Telecommunication and Globalization in the Nineteenth Century.  [Book Section]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19666/1/Wenzlhuemer_Editorial_Telecommunication_and_Globalization_2010.pdf