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Author Asseraf, Arthur, 1989- author.

Title Electric news in colonial Algeria / Arthur Asseraf
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Series Oxford historical monographs
Oxford scholarship online
Oxford historical monographs.
Oxford scholarship online.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index,
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 28, 2020)
Subject 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.
Broadcast journalism
Imperialism
Journalism
Journalism -- Political aspects
Algeria
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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