MDSB05H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: World Trade Organization, Gulf War, Market Power
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Understand media and communication in the historical context of imperial expansion and rivalry; Electric telegraph and imperial expansion 19th century 1865-1902 information about businesses, stocks, currencies, commodities, harvests, extractive products, etc carrier of military intelligence (p. 4); administrative control of colonies. Nazi germany: the most modern, the strongest and the most revolutionary weapon which we possess in the battle against an extinct world (david hendy, 2000, radio in the global age. Intelsat (international telecommunications satellite consortium)(1960s) fiber optic cable 1999 and 2002. Wto(1995) aim: to eliminate national obstacles to the import and export of goods and services. International telegraph union, created in 1865 and renamed international. Through the _ nwico _____debates in the 1970s, unesco put issues of international communication on the map. Map out the technological and regulatory foundations of global media and communication. To understand the market power of a small number of global media firms; to reflect upon some of the implications of such dominance.
