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The mediatization of the air : wireless telegraphy and the origins of a transnational space of communication, 1900-1910s

Rikitianskaia, Maria ; Balbi, Gabriele ; Lobinger, Katharina

In: Journal of communication, 2018, vol. 68, no. 4, p. 758–779

Airspace today is densely penetrated by Wi-Fi networks, GPS services, and broadcasting and mobile phone signals. This process, what we call the mediatization of the air, is not so new, as it began in the first two decades of the 20th century, with the advent of wireless telegraphy. Based on archival research, this paper shows that wireless telegraphy mediatized the air and made it a matter of...