The_Internet_As_A_Global_Village

The Internet As A Global Village Strictly speaking, the term “Global Village” is an oxymoron. What are some ways today’s international communication system is different from that in a traditional village' Is there another metaphor that is more appropriate' Theoretically, the world’s mass communication system is far from being a village. It has the capacity to reach every corner of the globe at the click of a button via the internet and the technology advances with the television and radio. This new system seems far from complex but differs from previous closed communication systems. In a traditional village, in regards to early newspapers, only the upper class or upper middle class had the opportunity to read and learn about international events. The price for knowledge with previous times was far too expensive for a lower to middle class person. In comparison to today’s communication system, it is easily accessible at low prices. For example, the internet can be found at any public school or library as well as the number of computers in the homes. The internet also opened to door for many other dimensions of the global village. It has allowed village, communication, system, internet, global, today’s, traditional, far, day, class, agents, world, upper, times, think, television, regards, radio, price, previous, people, one, newspapers, news, middle, metaphor, media, mass, low, international, interacting, group, different, another, world’s, while