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M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society‘This cable … was not in my words’: Gandhi, the Telegraph and Political Communication in the British Empire

M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society: ‘This cable … was not in my words’: Gandhi, the... [This chapter re-examines Gandhi’s prolific record as a political communicator from the perspective of the technologies of communication he employed during his South African years. It focuses in particular on his discourses and practices of telegraphy, an important tool of communication in a broader and interrelated media environment that also included letters, newspapers and speeches. The chapter makes an argument for Gandhi’s critical use of telegraphy, demonstrating how he moved beyond a simple critique of technology to imagine a different instrumentality for it.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society‘This cable … was not in my words’: Gandhi, the Telegraph and Political Communication in the British Empire

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media Book Series
Editors: Kaul, Chandrika
Bonea, Amelia
M.K. Gandhi, Media, Politics and Society — Dec 11, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-59034-5
Pages
7 –24
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-59035-2_2
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[This chapter re-examines Gandhi’s prolific record as a political communicator from the perspective of the technologies of communication he employed during his South African years. It focuses in particular on his discourses and practices of telegraphy, an important tool of communication in a broader and interrelated media environment that also included letters, newspapers and speeches. The chapter makes an argument for Gandhi’s critical use of telegraphy, demonstrating how he moved beyond a simple critique of technology to imagine a different instrumentality for it.]

Published: Dec 11, 2020

Keywords: South Africa; Telegraph; Political communication

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