global village

Definitions

The world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.

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Examples

“But certainly the electro-magnetic discoveries have⟳ recreated the simultaneous “field” in all human affairs so that the human family now exists under conditions of a “global village.””

“McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a "global village," in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related.”

“Because the novel is so rooted in time and place⟳, some of the events seem a bit outdated. However, Mitchell draws such explicit connections between these events, gay liberation, feminism and leftist politics in general that the book rises above its setting to make⟳ very clear comments about the global village as it is today.”

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