Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia

Communication and World Order Transformation

By: Ronald Deibert

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Paperback | 29 September 1997 | Edition Number 1

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Interweaving media theory and historical analysis, this book explores the effect new digital-telecommunication technologies, which Deibert calls hypermedia, will have on the distribution of political power in the next century. Deibert tracks the transformation of Europe from the medieval to the modern and then turns to the hypermedia age, where new digital technologies such as the Internet, encryption, and high-resolution satellite imaging favor nonterritorial institutions and communities, shifting political authority and policymaking from individual nations to transnational corporations, global financial markets, and nongovernmental organizations and activists.

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Depicts the links across some six centuries of history and a vast array of modern and postmodern concepts, leaving the reader with a keen sense of both the continuities and changes that have marked the human condition. The book is a 'must' read for anyone eager to probe beneath the surface of world affairs.

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Engineering & Technology Technology in General Politics & Government Political Science & Theory Society & Culture

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Preface	p. ix
Medium Theory, Ecological Holism, and the Study of World Order Transformation	p. 17
	p. 45
From the Parchment Codex to the Printing Press: The Sacred Word and the Rise and Fall of Medieval Theocracy	p. 47
Print and the Medieval to Modern World Order Transformation: Distributional Changes	p. 67
Print and the Medieval to Modern World Order Transformation: Changes to Social Epistemology	p. 94
	p. 111
Transformation in the Mode of Communication: The Emergence of the Hypermedia Environment	p. 113
Hypermedia and the Modern to Postmodern World Order Transformation	p. 137
	p. 177
	p. 202
Index	p. 315
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