Talk - Heidi Tworek: "News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications 1900-1945"
Time
Tuesday, 9. July 2019
15:15 - 16:45
Location
Universität Konstanz, Raum F 428
Organizer
Universität Konstanz, FB Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft
Speaker:
Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia)
Prof. Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia):
"News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications 1900-1945
Abstract:
Information warfare may seem like a new feature of our contemporary digital world. But it was just ascrucial a century ago, when the great powers competed to control and expand their empires. This talkuncovers how Germans fought to regulate information at home and used the innovation of wirelesstechnology to magnify their power abroad. Communications networks became a crucial battlegroundfor interwar domestic democracy and international influence everywhere from Latin America to EastAsia. Imperial leaders, and their Weimar and Nazi successors, nurtured wireless technology to makenews from Germany a major source of information across the globe. The Nazi mastery of global propagandaby the 1930s was built on decades of Germany’s obsession with the news. News fromGermany is not a story about Germany alone. It reveals how news became a form of internationalpower and how communications changed the course of history.
