Andreas Fickers is Professor of Contemporary and Digital History and Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at Luxembourg University (C2DH). He has published widely on the subjects of transnational media history and European history of technology. He is currently doing research on the methodological and epistemological challenges of digital historiography.

Pascal Griset is Professor of Modern History at Sorbonne University (UMR Sirice/CRHI), France. He is the coordinator and Principal Investigator of the H 2020 project Inventing a shared Science Diplomacy for Europe (InsSciDE). A specialist in the economic and technical history of information and communication technologies, he is currently researching the history of scientific research organizations and high technology industries. He chairs the Comité pour l'histoire de l'INSERM.

Explores the geopolitcal importance of connecting technologies from the telephone, radio and television to the internet

Examines the relationship between communication technologies and culture, commerce and wider communities

Assess the spatial dimensions and transnational implications of communication devices as objects with particular qualities and symbolic meanings

Introduction.- Who is in Charge? State & Private Initiative: A Shared Construction of New Technologies.- Not so Soft ... International Telecommunications Networks, Geo-Strategy, & Power.- European Techno-Diplomacy: Negotiating European Telegraph, Radio, & Television Standards & Regulations.- The Mediated Experience of Europe: On Electronic Presence, Liveness, & Participation in the European Media Landscape.- Europe as a Jamming Session?: Intended & Unintended Spill-Overs & Techno-Political Challenges of Cross-Border Communication.- Between Sciences & Geopolitics: Europe the Proto-Digitization of Society.- Digital Convergence & Neo-Liberalism in Late-Twentieth-Century Europe.- Acceleration, Mobility, & the Rhetoric of the New: Onthe Historical Alignment & Symbolic Power of Media & Mobility.