global village
noun
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The term global village is closely associated with Herbert Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian communications theorist and literature professor hailed by many as a prophet for the 20th century. McLuhan's mantra, "the medium is the message," summarized his view of the influence of television, computers, and other electronic information sources in shaping society and modern life. By 1960, he had delineated his concept of the "global village," and by 1970, the public had embraced the term and recognized the idea as both exhilarating and frightening. As a 1970 Saturday Review article noted, "There are no boundaries in a global village. All problems will become so intimate as to be one's own...."
Examples of global village in a Sentence
Martijn Lampert, Foreign Affairs, 6 July 2016
The two companies built devoted followings by promising to build populist technology for a changing world: X, formerly known as Twitter, with its global village of conversations, and OpenAI, the research lab behind ChatGPT, with its super-intelligent companions for human thought.
—Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
The panel touched on issues of identity, generational change and the development of the post-pandemic, streaming-era global village.
—Variety, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
We’re each assigned a spot in that global village, the homelands reflecting the international nature of the refugee crisis: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia all get competing, squabbling enclaves.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
Nair feels that with the streamers transforming the world into a global village and an increasing international awareness of the Indian film industry, there will be widespread interest in the series.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
The entertainment industry is an increasingly global village, and this list surely reflects that.
—Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, 29 Dec. 2022
Rather, the modern global village expands the scope of those in your potential social network up to whole world.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2013
In the romantic version of the global village, trans-national media was meant to bring mutual understanding across borders.
—Peter Pomerantsev, Time, 21 Dec. 2022
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“Global village.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/global%20village. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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