Future of the Global Village: Research Questions
Media
1.How many television sets in the world?
2.What's the percentage of households with at least one TV?
3.What's the distribution of television sets in the whole world?
4.The average number of TVs per home.
5.The number of hours that people watch television.
6.The spending per person per year for TV.
7.Amount spent on television advertising.
8. Waht's the revenue and operating income of broadcast television?
9. Waht's the revenue and operating income of cable and satellite television?
10.What's the percentage of programs related to provide information rather than for entertainment?
11. What's the percentage of local TV compared to global TV in different countries?
12. How does technoloyg affect transportation and communication which are important factors for international trade?
13. How many people nowadays use internet?
14. How long does it take to spread technology?
15. What happened to global airtransportation from 1950 to 1998?
16. How many users use telephone?
17. How many users use cellular phone?
18. What's the technical support of TV?
19. What's the political support of TV?
20. What's the economical support of TV?
21. What's the trend of TV?
Social & Culture
What is culture?
What is local culture?
What is global culture?
How local and global culture relate and interact?
How media change culture?
What is globalization and how globalization affect culture?
Why national government protect local culture and how?
Who support the formation of global culture?
What is democratic globalization?
What happened to the international arrivals from 1950 to 1999?
How does McDonalds affect the world?
Economy
1.What are the functions of important international finance instituitions?
2.What are the important regional organizations and treaties playing indispensable roles in world today?
3.What is the growth of international trade?
4.The death of oil economy.
Environment
1.How about the oil consumption today?
2.Oil reserves were exaggerated.
3.Who has the oil (top 20 nations)?
4.Who makes and uses the oil(top 20 nations)?
5.Oil price indexes from 1970 to 2003.
6.The exports and imports of oil.
7.Will the weather become more and more warm that the glacier will melt and cover most mainlands?
8.Will the earthquake, tsunami or volcano such kind of natual disasters become the drives of a big global migration?
Policy
1.New world order.
2.What is anti-globalization?
3.What is international law?
4.What is global politics?