TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
KW  - telegraph
KW  -  London
KW  -  telecommunication
KW  -  network
KW  -  submarine telegraphy
TI  - London in the Global Telecommunication Network of the Nineteenth Century
Y1  - 2009///
ID  - heidok19672
JF  - New Global Studies
VL  - 3
SP  - 1
N2  - 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.
PB  - The Berkeley Electronic Press
EP  - 32
A1  - Wenzlhuemer, Roland
UR  - http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol3/iss1/art2
ER  -