Electronic communication’s true effect is spatial political competition.

Evidence

The meaning of elec- tronic communication is not in the news that informs us or the entertainment that distracts us but in the new possibility to turn space into a domain of geographical and political competition for the most electronically advanced nations. … Electronics, like print in its early phases, is biased toward supporting one type of civilization: a powerhouse society dedicated to wealth, power, and product- ivity, to technical perfectionism and ethical nihilism. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 663

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines electronic communication’s significance in spatial-expansion terms rather than content terms, echoing Innis’s spatial bias concept.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 663
• XREF: connects to: Communication media bias societies toward either spatial expansion or temporal continuity — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 542; Digital communication technologies have fundamentally changed public communication, reshaping perception of space and interaction — The Influence Of Communication Technology On Human Relations; Space-binding media create communities dispersed across distance rather than place — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 623 (+1 more)

Related

• Electronics’ core meaning is enlarged social scale and centralizing power, not entertainment (similarity 0.84)
• Electronic media support a powerhouse civilization of wealth and technical perfectionism. (similarity 0.83)
• Communication media bias societies toward either spatial expansion or temporal continuity (similarity 0.83)
• Electronic communication enabled space exploration by reducing control signal time. (similarity 0.82)
• Space-binding media create communities dispersed across distance rather than place (similarity 0.82)
• Digitalization is a third communications revolution comparable to the printing press (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Space-binding media create communities dispersed across distance rather than place #expands (0.70) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 623