What's New? War, Censorship and Global Transmission

From the Telegraph to the Internet

Bibliographic Data

ID12898769
AuthorsJill Hills (Northwick Park Hospital, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume68
Issue3
Pages195-216
Publication date2006-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Communication Gazette (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1748-0485 • E-ISSN: 1748-0493
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1748048506063761
OpenAlexW2007904755
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited3

Perceptions of threats to national security have always been the basis for governments to enter the business of what, in 1900, was called ‘censorship’ of person to person communications and what, today, we call surveillance. The first direct intervention came during the Boer War in 1900, was expanded during the First World War and formed the basis of current policy. This article looks at the introduction of ‘censorship’ of electrical communications in time of war and compares the current position to the past. It concludes that the major differences between the early years of the telegraph and today are the invasiveness of the technologies and the international institutionalization of surveillance. Although some theorists have argued that the internationalization of communications has eroded the power of the state, the article concludes that power has shifted away from domestic and international non-state civic opposition groups to increased state control

Censorship · Economics · Foreign policy · International trade · Internationalization · Media studies · National security · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · Global Security and Public Health · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Public Administration

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