出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：A macro theory that recognizes the world's three competing center-clusters and their respective hinterlands o. ers a realistic framework for global communication research. Th is study has used recent data on world trade, computers, Internet hosts, and high-tech exports to map the triadization of the world in the Information Age. Th e original dependency theory and world-system theory perspectives emphasized the hierarchical link-ing of national societies to the capitalist world-economy in a center-periphery structure. Th e proposed global-triadization formulation looks at the center-periphery structure in terms of a capitalist world-economy dominated by three competing center economic clusters, each of which has a dependent hinterland comprising peripheral economic clusters. Th ese clusters may not necessarily be geographically con-tiguous. Strong-weak relationships may exist within each center-cluster, as well as within each periphery-cluster, with one center-cluster occupying a hegemonic role. Th e rudimentary Information-Society Power Index, constructed for this study, can guide the researcher to test an abundance of hypotheses on the pattern of global communication and information . ow with particular attention to source, message, channel, and receiver
