Increasing Mobility

Description:

The dictionary has a explanation of the word Mobile

Mobile

• Capable of moving or of being moved readily from place to place.
• Tending to travel and relocate frequently.

Mobility means ' The quality or state of being mobile '.

The world's increasing mobility take its literal meaning: People are more and more capable of and ready for moving from one place to another, both temperarily and permantantly.

Enablers:

• Virtual Integration
• Media Globalization
• The Globalization of Culture (or Cultural Globalization)
• The advances of information and communication technology, especially wireless Technolgy, which free people from restraints of their location, you can communicate anywhere anyway.
• The advances in ground and air transportation. It allows people to travel around the world with safty, comfort and speed.
• Increasing international Cooperation, which requires people to travel around the world for cooperated projects/researches.

Inhibitors:

• Cultural barriers
• Language barriers
• Country barriers

Paradigms:

• Pop cultures
• Press freedom

Experts:

• Marshal McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
• Nancy Morris, Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters
• Monroe E. Price, Media and Sovereignty

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