EAN: 9783110669602

HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION ...

This book focuses on the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)  from its
origins in the mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the first international organization ever
and still plays a crucial role in managing global telecommunications today. Putting together
some of the most relevant scholars in the field of transnational communications  the book
covers the history of ITU from 1865 to digital times in a truly global perspective  taking into
account several technologies like the telegraph  the telephone  cables  wireless  radio 
television  satellites  mobile phone  the internet and others. The main goal is to identify the
long-term strategies of regulation and the techno-diplomatic manoeuvres taken inside ITU  from
convincing the majority of the nations to establish the official seat of the Telegraph Union
bureau in Switzerland in the 1860s  to contrasting the multi-stakeholder model of Internet
governance (supported by US and ICANN). History of the International Telecommunication Union is
a trans-disciplinary text and can be interesting for scholars and students in the fields of
telecommunications  media  international organizations  transnational communication  diplomacy
political economy of communication  STS  and others. It has the ambition to become a reference
point in the history of ITU and  at the same time  just the fi rst comprehensive step towards a
longer  inter-technological  political and cultural history of transnational communications to
be written in the future.

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