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Is the World
Becoming A Global Village?
"Global village1", the term introduced by
P. Wyndham Lewis in his book America and Cosmic Manóif stands very true
for today's world which has shrinked into a small village as far as
communication and deliverance of information is concerned. Infact as
referred in the book, different dimensions of mass media which includes
television, internet, world wide web, radio have made the world collapse
into a small village where time barrier and distance is no longer a
barrier for the communication of news or information.
In the introduction to McLuhan's Understanding Media2 he writes: 'Today,
after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our
central nervous system in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time
as far as our planet is concerned'.
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An earthquake in bhuj is telecasted all across the world live, courtesy
internet and television. So time is not a barrier anymore and any news and
information can be spread across the world in span of few seconds.
Similarly the news of sunami in India and Thailand was spread across the
whole world in
few seconds and people actually watched it live. This tryly proves that
world is very small as if distance barrier doesn't exist at all.
An innovative medium of Internet has connected the whole world as if you
are sitting next door and passing on the information to someone. You sit
in India and write a mail to someone in London and it reaches there in
less than one minute.
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Similarly through the medium of chats you
can have a live discussion with people sitting in the opposite corner of
the continent. It also gives you the flexibility to actually see the
person you are chatting with Via Web cam. Isn't amazing. Another medium for fast forward spread of information is cell phones.
Wherever you are you can always stay in touch with your near and dear
one's via sms or calls. You don't need to look for a fixed phone to call
up someone. It becomes so easy to communicate with the flexibility of a
cell phone , which you can use any time and anywhere. SMS is another craze
, which gives you flexibility and convenience to send messages and
information from any place you are standing or sitting. You don't need a
computer or internet or even a fixed phone to do so. Just type in few
words and send the message across to any corner of the world.
This really makes me wonder, is not the world becoming a global village
with no barrier whatsoever of distance or time. This is true sense is
giving a new sense of world community on the platform of a world wide
forum.
1 "Global Village" term used by P. Wyndham Lewis in his book America and
Cosmic Manóif
2-Information quoted from Marshall McLuhan's 'Global Village' written by
Benjamin
Symes
References:
Article on global village from Wikopedia- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village
Article by Benjamin Symes- http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/bas9401.html
Contributing Writer
Ekta
Sanchania is a
content writer with
more than two years of experience in the field of content research,
writing and Instructional designing.
ekta.sachania@gmail.com
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