Modern communications distanced French administrators from the colonised population

Evidence

Paradoxically, the advent of modern communications meant that the over-worked administrator became more, rather than less, out of contact with his flock; he communicated by telephone instead of riding out by horseback, as in the good old days, to stay overnight in the various douars. Many inhabitants in the remoter mountains of the Aurès and Kabylia never saw a European in their lives, their sole contact with France being through a caid, bachaga or the hated local tax-collector. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 95

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The telegraph displaced older languages, interactions, and city-state capitalism — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 776; French rule in Algeria steadily degraded its administrators relative to the governed population; Communication media bias societies toward either spatial expansion or temporal continuity — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 542 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The telegraph displaced older languages, interactions, and city-state capitalism #expands (0.45) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 776
• Communication media bias societies toward either spatial expansion or temporal continuity #expands (0.40) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 542
• French rule in Algeria steadily degraded its administrators relative to the governed population #exemplifies (0.30)