Morley, David G.. 2014. On living in a techno-globalised world: Questions of history and geography. In: , ed. Technological Determinism and Social Change. 30 (2) Lexington, pp. 61-65. ISBN 0739191241 [Book Section]

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The article surveys perspectives on technological change and globalisation which might be seen as ‘media-centric’ in respect of their assumptions about the extent to which media technologies themselves are necessarily the driving force of cultural and political change. It argues for the need to situate contemporary forms of technological ‘newness’ in historical perspective, if we are to avoid a narrowly foreshortened form of ‘presentism’. It also offers an alternative, ‘contextualist’ view of how we might analyse the ways in which particular technologies are mobilised in different cultural contexts and considers how, rather than focussing on ‘universalised’ models of technologically driven change, we might develop a comparative forms of analysis informed by anthropological and comparative perspectives on technology use.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Technology; Culture; History; Geography
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event December 2014 Published
Item ID:	11408
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2015 16:20
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:10
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/11408

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