Living in a Global Village

Global village, as defined by the book Web Theory:
"A term coined by Marshall McLuhan to describe how the new technologies of communication provided a different form of connection that resembled the village. It remains a celebrated term in discourses on both the Internet and its relationship to globalization."

To quote the ever-popular Wikipedia, "McLuhan describes how electronic mass media collapse space and time barriers in human communication, enabling people to interact and live on a global scale. In this sense, the globe has been turned into a village by the electronic mass media."

With the rise of innovations such as radio, telephone, film, television, and the Internet, the world becomes progressively more connected, and on a more immediate scale. News on a worldwide scale can be transmitted almost instantaneously, and one's physical location becomes less important. Internet communities, for example, have less to do with the area a person lives in, and more to do with their interest. Therefore, Doctor Who fans, for example, from the United States and England can interact with each other based on their shared interest, and not be limited by the fact that physically they are thousands of miles away from each other. As information becomes easily accessible by people all over the world, the world becomes, in the virtual sense, one giant village. Everyone is able to find their niche, regardless of physical location.