Mediatizing the nation, ordering the world : struggles for redemption in Britain and the United States /

"This book offers a timely and engaging account of how technologies of communication media impact nationalist challenges to global order—shedding new light on how they matter, how they have changed, and how their evolution transforms the conditions of possibility for nationalist order challenge...

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Main Author: Dougall, Andrew (Lecturer in international relations) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"This book offers a timely and engaging account of how technologies of communication media impact nationalist challenges to global order—shedding new light on how they matter, how they have changed, and how their evolution transforms the conditions of possibility for nationalist order challengers. In the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to close entanglements between resurgent nationalism and digital media. In Mediatizing the Nation, Ordering the World, Andrew Dougall shows that the relationship between media and nationalist order contestation is far older. Comparing Trump's breakthrough in the twenty-first-century United States with a similar—but unsuccessful—movement in nineteenth-century Britain, the book argues that communication media shaped these episodes by differently patterning the constitution and distribution of meaning on which they relied. Underpinning this argument is a novel theorization of media in world politics, drawing on insights from media and communications scholarship, in addition to International Relations (IR). Among the book's key contributions are to explain how media affect vertical challenges to the structure of international orders; to reframe IR's theoretical engagement with the relationship between media and order; and to situate the internet within a longer history of this relationship, contributing to a more balanced view of its impact"--Publisher's description.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191991240
0191991244
0198882203
9780198882206