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Oxymoronic term coined in the 1960s by Canadian media critic Marshall McCluhan to describe how instantaneous communication made possible by electronic technologies could unite the world on a global scale. While McCluhan warned of TV's potential to facilitate a monolithic monoculture, lately the term has been used in constructive ways by enthusiasts of the Internet and other information technologies.
The world shrunk by communication technology to a village (Marshall McLuhan).
Term coined in the 1960s by media critic Marshall McLuhan to describe the ability of new communications technologies to bring peoples together.
Global village is a term coined by Wyndham Lewis in his book America and Cosmic Man (1948). However, Herbert Marshall Mc Luhan also wrote about this term in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962). His book describes how electronic mass media collapse space and time barriers in human communication, enabling people to interact and live on a global scale.
Global Village is an Australian television show broadcast by the Australian public broadcaster SBS.
Global Village is an entertainment program on the Radio One and Radio Two networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, hosted by Jowi Taylor. It is heard on the Radio One network between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. local time on Wednesdays, or 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Newfoundland, and on the Radio Two network between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturdays.
