Industrialism’s communication technologies shaped humanity’s global self-awareness
Evidence
The diffusion of industrialism has created “one world” in a more negative and threatening sense than that just mentioned—a world in which there are actual or potential ecological changes of a harmful sort that affect everyone on the planet. Yet industrialism has also decisively conditioned our very sense of living in “one world.” For one of the most important effects of industrialism has been the transformation of technologies of communication. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 190
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 24; Industrialism is machinery-based production affecting far more than factories — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 151; Mechanised communication is the bedrock of modern cultural globalisation — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 191 (+10 more)
Related
- Mechanised communication is the bedrock of modern cultural globalisation (similarity 0.89)
- Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life (similarity 0.80)
- Industrialism is machinery-based production affecting far more than factories (similarity 0.79)
- Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations (similarity 0.79)
- Communication technologies shifted commerce out of public space and into private homes (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Modern communications technology has fundamentally reshaped human consciousness and social relations
#corroborates(0.80) - Communication technology shapes culture through interests, symbols, and community
#expands(0.60) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 622 - Communication technologies are celebrated for transforming society, not transmitting faster
#expands(0.55) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 729 - Mechanical communication growth did not necessarily expand freedom and knowledge
#complicates(0.50) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 650 - Communication technology serves group monopolies of knowledge, not community
#contradicts(0.45) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 599