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A Networked Age

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Diseases in Dialogue
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What does it means to live in a networked age? Was the electric telegraph a forerunner of the internet? Have the benefits of new means of communication been universal? Is the long-awaited ‘global village’ still on the horizon?

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Diseases in Dialogue
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Grant Blank
Jean-Michel Johnston
Keywords
internet
oxford internet institute
diseases of modern life
telegraph
Victorians
torch network
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 24/06/2019
Duration: 00:36:10

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