eprintid: 19672
rev_number: 52
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type: article
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creators_name: Wenzlhuemer, Roland
title: London in the Global Telecommunication Network of the Nineteenth Century
subjects: ddc-940
divisions: i-72020
keywords: telegraph, London, telecommunication, network, submarine telegraphy
cterms_swd: London
cterms_swd: Telegrafie
cterms_swd: Großstadt
cterms_swd: Kommunikation
cterms_swd: Geschichte
abstract: 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.
date: 2009
publisher: The Berkeley Electronic Press
id_scheme: DOI
official_url: http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol3/iss1/art2
ppn_swb: 1658801970
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-196722
language: eng
bibsort: WENZLHUEMELONDONINTH2009
full_text_status: public
publication: New Global Studies
volume: 3
pagerange: 1-32
citation:   Wenzlhuemer, Roland  (2009) London in the Global Telecommunication Network of the Nineteenth Century.  New Global Studies, 3.  pp. 1-32.      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19672/1/Wenzlhuemer_London_Global_Telecommunication_Network_2009.pdf