eprintid: 19670
rev_number: 51
eprint_status: archive
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dir: disk0/00/01/96/70
datestamp: 2015-10-21 13:18:07
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type: article
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creators_name: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
title: Metropolitan Telecommunication: Uneven Telegraphic Connectivity in Nineteenth-Century London
subjects: 940
divisions: 72020
keywords: telegraph; telecommunication; London; information age; networks; social network analysis
cterms_swd: London
cterms_swd: Telegrafie
cterms_swd: Großstadt
cterms_swd: Kommunikation
cterms_swd: Geschichte
abstract: Although the United Kingdom has long lost its position at the heart of a practically global empire, the British capital London still continues to stand at the very center of a global telecommunication and information network. Yet, global connectivity is not evenly distributed throughout the metropolis. As recent studies show, information-dependent businesses tend to concentrate in particular quarters in and around the City of London and the West End despite the spatial flexibility that modern telecommunication technology allows for. This study seeks to demonstrate how the modern ‘‘digital divide’’ that rips through London continuously evolved from similarly uneven connectivity patterns in the telegraphic network of late
19th-century London. With the help of historical Geographic Information Systems (GIS), these patterns will be visualized. This examination will show how important a role continuity played in the evolution of modern informational patterns and how this sheds new light on issues of technological dynamism and agency.
date: 2009
publisher: SAGE
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.1177/0894439308329767
ppn_swb: 1658802179
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196708
language: eng
bibsort: WENZLHUEMEMETROPOLIT2009
full_text_status: public
publication: Social Science Computer Review. GIS Special Edition
volume: 27
number: 3
pagerange: 437-451
citation:   Wenzlhuemer, Roland  (2009) Metropolitan Telecommunication: Uneven Telegraphic Connectivity in Nineteenth-Century London.  Social Science Computer Review. GIS Special Edition, 27 (3).  pp. 437-451.      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19670/1/Wenzlhuemer_Metropolitan_Telecommunication_2009.pdf