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==Description:==
==Description:==
Rapid growth of internet technology has stimulated the idea of 'Global Village'. A global village can be understood as inter-connectedness of world's entities. The entites may be in a form of people, organization, state, or even devices. As we all might have seen, internet nowadays has played important role on underpinning processes and activities in almost all aspects of human life. Communication, media, and education, for intances, has been benefited by the advance of internet in a sense that internet provides new ways of communicating, informing, and educating that cease 'time' and vanish 'space'.
Media globalization is one of the most prominent factor that shapes the global world. When the Bali bomb exploded in Indonesia, less than one minute people could see the news on TV or internet. Media has a significant role to spread the news all over the world. With its wide-coverage network, media could reach almost any place in the world to give us information which has become our daily consumption.
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We could not imagine how we can live without CNN, BBC, MTV, or Hollywood movies for instance. Those media has been there to accompany us wherever we go. They give us information about recent Dowjones market index, interest rates, oil price, top 40 songs, Box office movies, etc. They also give us information about new products, sales, vacation packages through their advertising which always attracts us to watch and listen. Those media somehow has also changed the way we perceive the world around us. They has changed our habits, hobbies, preferences, and even cultures that we might never realize. They introduce new ways of thinking; thinking about the world and all processes on it. They shape our oppinions to like something that might have seemed unfavorable or the other way around. They introduce the so called pop cultures to people in different regions as if those cultures are the most appropriate to adopt to be considered part of the global civilization.
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CNN, BBC, MTV, Hollywood movies and many others are some agents of this media globalization. They convey information, news, advertising, and even culture from one country to another. They link and connect all part of the world with their media infrastructure; and in this respect media globalization has become an important factor that might explain the future of the 'global village'.


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==Enablers:==

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Description:

Media globalization is one of the most prominent factor that shapes the global world. When the Bali bomb exploded in Indonesia, less than one minute people could see the news on TV or internet. Media has a significant role to spread the news all over the world. With its wide-coverage network, media could reach almost any place in the world to give us information which has become our daily consumption.

We could not imagine how we can live without CNN, BBC, MTV, or Hollywood movies for instance. Those media has been there to accompany us wherever we go. They give us information about recent Dowjones market index, interest rates, oil price, top 40 songs, Box office movies, etc. They also give us information about new products, sales, vacation packages through their advertising which always attracts us to watch and listen. Those media somehow has also changed the way we perceive the world around us. They has changed our habits, hobbies, preferences, and even cultures that we might never realize. They introduce new ways of thinking; thinking about the world and all processes on it. They shape our oppinions to like something that might have seemed unfavorable or the other way around. They introduce the so called pop cultures to people in different regions as if those cultures are the most appropriate to adopt to be considered part of the global civilization.

CNN, BBC, MTV, Hollywood movies and many others are some agents of this media globalization. They convey information, news, advertising, and even culture from one country to another. They link and connect all part of the world with their media infrastructure; and in this respect media globalization has become an important factor that might explain the future of the 'global village'.

Enablers:

  • The advance of computer and mobile technology
  • The more and more affordable price of computer
  • The advance of network technology: Wireless Network
  • Better education level, especially in the 3rd world countries

Inhibitors:

  • Internet security issues: its vulnerabilities to cybercrime

Paradigms:

Emerging paradigm associated with the advance of internet:

  • e-government
  • e-commerce
  • e-business
  • e-learning (Distance learning)
  • Semantic web

Experts:

  • Marshal McLuhan
  • GVU's WWW survey
  • IDC
  • Nua Ltd.

Timing:

In a www survey conducted by GUV in 1995, internet connection speed at 14 kb/s had the highest percentage with 33.7%, 32.72%, 22.95% in general part of the world, U.S, and europe respectively. In other words, the most common connection speed is 14 Kb/sec (33.70%) followed by 28 Kb/sec (26.63%). In year 1998, the same survey resulted in 31.4% for connection speed at 56 Kb/sec. This fact however has shown how internet technology has grown rapidly within three years.

In terms of internet usage, internet user has grown from 16 million (0.39% of world population) in December 1995 to 580.78 million (9.75% of world population) in May 2002. Those data are based upon research from Nua Ltd. and IDC respectively. This means internet user had grown 35.3% in seven years from 1995 to 2002.

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