title: London in the Global Telecommunication Network of the Nineteenth Century
creator: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
subject: ddc-940
subject: 940 General history of Europe
description: London is one of the best connected cities in the world – from a structural as well as from a functional perspective. The central finance and business districts of the metropolis feature both an extraordinarily well-developed information infrastructure and an unusually high concentration of information-dependent businesses. Outside these core districts, however, global connectivity  drops massively. An informational divide rips through the global city. This paper builds on a comparatively recent understanding of ‘new electronic communications technologies as part of a long history of rich and often wayward social practices’ (Thrift) and seeks to provide a historical perspective on the emergence of global connectivity patterns. Due to its longstanding history as a  global financial centre and its central position in the global and domestic telegraph network of the nineteenth century, London will provide a suitable case study to examine the long-term interplay of socioeconomic and structural patterns in the creation of global information networks.
publisher: The Berkeley Electronic Press
date: 2009
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19672/1/Wenzlhuemer_London_Global_Telecommunication_Network_2009.pdf
identifier: DOI:
identifier: http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol3/iss1/art2
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196722
identifier:   Wenzlhuemer, Roland  (2009) London in the Global Telecommunication Network of the Nineteenth Century.  New Global Studies, 3.  pp. 1-32.      
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19672/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng