• DOI:10.1177/1748048506063761
Corpus ID: 153879238

What's New? War, Censorship and Global Transmission

@article{Hills2006WhatsNW,
  title={What's New? War, Censorship and Global Transmission},
  author={J. Hills},
  journal={International Communication Gazette},
  year={2006},
  volume={68},
  pages={195 - 216}
}

J. Hills

Published 2006

Sociology

International Communication Gazette

Perceptions of threats to national security have always been the basis for governments to enter the business of what, in 1900, was called ‘censorship’ of person to person communications and what, today, we call surveillance. The first direct intervention came during the Boer War in 1900, was expanded during the First World War and formed the basis of current policy. This article looks at the introduction of ‘censorship’ of electrical communications in time of war and compares the current… CONTINUE READING

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