CMN2168- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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The article argues that the rise of globalization and a global media system originated in the mid-19th century, and in the 1920s especially. The case study focuses on the cable barons who moulded state policies in their own interest and in ways that fundamentally shaped the international distribution of news and information. Also, the long period between 1850 and the late 1920s that gave rise to the global media system can be divided into two stages. The first stage occurred between approximately 1880 and 1902, and was mainly restricted to demands within the british. Empire for government ownership of cables, the main result being the laying of the. Pacific cable between canada and australasia in 1902. Asia had led to news of the us in the foreign press being largely mediated through foreign news agencies. Lastly, radio became a much-touted possible rival to cable, even though up until the late.
