Communicating Europe : Technologies, Information, Events (Hardcover)

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Who is in Charge?: State and Private Initiative: A Shared Construction of New Technologies.- Chapter 2: Not so soft . . . : International Telecommunications Networks, Geo-Strategy, and Power.- Chapter 3: European Techno-Diplomacy: Negotiating European Telegraph, Radio, and Television Standards and Regulations .- Chapter 4: The Mediated Experience of Europe .- Chapter 5: Europe as a Jamming Session? : Intended and Unintended Spill-Overs and Techno-Political Challenges of Cross-Border Communication.- Chapter 6: Between Sciences and Geopolitics: Europe and the Proto-Digitization of Society .- Chapter 7: Digital Convergence and Neo-Liberalism in Late-Twentieth-Century Europe.- Chapter 8: Acceleration, Mobility and the Rhetoric of the New . On the Historical Alignment and Symbolic Power of Media and Mobility.- Conclusion.