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The Global Village
The Global Village
Global Village is generally meant to be a concept where people from different parts of the
world are connected with each other through easy commutes and travel, media and
electronic communication (radio, television, telephone, mobile phone, internet etc.) and
gradually become a single community .
Global village describes the phenomenon of the entire world becoming more
interconnected as the result of the propagation of media technologies throughout the
world. The term was coined by Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan in his books
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) and Understanding
Media (1964).
At some point in human history, the idea of a global village was viewed as a possible
social and economic equaliser.