Satellite Communications, Globalization, and the Cold War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4764217 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugh Richard Slotten (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 315-350 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2002.0088 |
| OpenAlex | W2067904691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 15 |
The concept of globalization encompasses a number of different meanings that reflect the diminishing importance of national boundaries and the rise of worldwide social and economic processes. Analysts of globalization have focused on such issues as the growth of transnational companies, the expansion of international trade, and the increased tension between metropolitan and local practices and cultures. A crucial element in this process of transformation has been the development and implementation of global communication technologies. The communications satellite, an essential instrument of globalization, was first developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The popular media theorist Marshall McLuhan articulated his concept of the "global village" during the 1960s partly in response to the potential he perceived in this new technology. Satellites, in conjunction with telephone technology and, especially, broadcasting, created possibilities for global communications, education, and propaganda. 1 [End Page 315]
Broadcasting (networking) · Cold war · Communications satellite · Geography · Globalization · Metropolitan area · Political science · Satellite · Sociology · Telecommunications · Computer Science · Engineering · History of Computing Technologies · Law · Research, Science, and Academia · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
The ‘Open Empire’
The Book and the Rocket
Prefacio
The Universe will be televised
Leapfrogging India
A Bold New Vision
Innovation in a Cold [War] Climate
Making Outer Space Legal
Digital geopolitics in a Vuca world
Satellite promises
The Cold War battle over global news in East Africa
The Universal Language of the Future”
Europe's Final Frontier
International Governance, Organizational Standards, and the First Global Satellite Communication System
One infrastructure, many global visions
The Half-Life of Empire in Outer Space
The Technological Singularity as the Emergence of a Collective Consciousness
Digitality, Virtual Reality and the 'Empathy Machine
Lighting “Paradise”
From nuclear physics to semiconductor manufacturing
Crafting the future
Globalization with hardware’
Earthquake prediction, biological clocks, and the cold war psy-ops
A Dream Deferred
Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2002
Military enterprise and technological change
The Invisible Weapon
Machines as the Measure of Men
Space and the American Imagination
The Global Media
Science, Cold War, and the American State
Outer Space and Inner Sanctums
Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership
The Sputniks Crisis and Early United States Space Policy
Sputnik, Scientists and Eisenhower
The National Aeronautics and Space Act
Presidential Management of Science and Technology
Organizing for the Use of Space
The Origins of Microwave Telephony-Waves of Change
The Decision to Go to the Moon
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,04 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |