Electric news in colonial Algeria Asseraf, Arthur 1989- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2019 2019 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) How do the things which connect us divide us at the same time? This book tells a different history of globalization by tracing how news circulated in a divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The years between 1881 and 1940 were those of maximum colonial power in North Africa, a period of intense technological revolution, global high imperialism, and the expansion of settler colonialism. Algerians became connected to international networks of news, and local people followed distant events with great interest. But once news reached Algeria, accounts of recent events often provoked conflict as they moved between different social groups. In a society split between its native majority and a substantial settler minority, distant wars led to riots. Circulation and polarization were two sides of the same coin. Looking at a range of sources in multiple languages across colonial society, this book offers a new understanding of what news is. News was a whole ecosystem in which new technologies such as the printing press, the telegraph, the cinema and the radio interacted with older media like songs, rumours, letters, and manuscripts. The French government watched anxiously over these developments, monitoring Algerians' reactions to news through an extensive network of surveillance that often ended up spreading news rather than controlling its flow. By tracking what different people thought was new, this history of news helps us reconsider the relationship between time, media, and historical change.Less Introduction -- Magical printing: the civilization of the newspaper, 1830-1930 -- Arab telephone: pan-Islamism and the telegraph, 1897-1914 -- Wartime: real histories, false news, and songs in 1914 -- Old waves: cinema, radio, and political polarization in the 1930s -- Palestine the martyr: distance and 'proxy nationalism', 1911-48 -- Epilogue: imagined divisions -- Bibliography -- Index. Arthur Asseraf. Includes bibliographical references and index, f-ae--- Journalism Algeria History 19th century Journalism Algeria History 20th century Journalism Political aspects Algeria History 19th century Journalism Political aspects Algeria History 20th century Broadcast journalism Algeria History 19th century Broadcast journalism Algeria History 20th century Imperialism Journalisme Algérie Histoire 19e siècle Journalisme Algérie Histoire 20e siècle Presse Aspect politique Algérie Histoire 19e siècle Presse Aspect politique Algérie Histoire 20e siècle Presse audiovisuelle Algérie Histoire 19e siècle Presse audiovisuelle Algérie Histoire 20e siècle Impérialisme HISTORY North 20th Century Modern Social History Colonialism & Post-Colonialism POLITICAL SCIENCE Broadcast journalism Imperialism Journalism Journalism Political aspects Algeria 1800-1999 fast PN5499.A4 A87 2019 079.65 070.19096509034 Electric news in colonial Algeria Asseraf, Arthur, 1989- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019 First edition. (OCoLC)1083138313 Oxford historical monographs Oxford scholarship online 9780191879999 0191879991 9780192582850 0192582852 0198844042 9780198844044 9780192582843 0192582844 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/32408 YDX 190509 20260319180920.9 in00005717262 eng