the global village
1the global village — UK US noun [S] COMMUNICATIONS ► the idea that the internet, modern travel, and modern ways of doing business make it possible to deal with the whole world as if all areas of it were local: »In today s global village, your co workers are as likely …
2(the) global village — the global village UK US noun mainly journalism the modern world in which all countries depend on each other and seem to be closer together because of modern communications and transport systems Thesaurus: general words relating to international… …
3The Global Village — Globales Dorf (engl. Global Village) ist ein Begriff aus der Medientheorie, den Marshall McLuhan 1962 in seinem Buch The Gutenberg Galaxy prägte und in seinem letzten Buch The Global Village ausformulierte. Er bezieht sich damit auf die moderne… …
4the global village — UK / US noun mainly journalism the modern world in which all countries depend on each other and seem to be closer together because of modern communications and transport systems …
5Global village (Internet) — Global village is a term coined by Wyndham Lewis in his book America and Cosmic Man (1948). However, Herbert Marshall McLuhan also wrote about this term in his books (1962) and Understanding Media (1964). McLuhan describes how electronic mass… …
6Global Village Foundation — The Global Village Foundation (GVF) is a non profit charitable organization which provides education and health care for children and rural villagers in Vietnam and some other countries of Asia [ [http://www.volunteermatch.org/orgs/org52947.html… …
7global village — ˌglobal ˈvillage noun [singular] COMMERCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS the idea that the world can be considered as one unit for business and communication purposes: • Information has become freely available in the global village of the 21st century …
8Global Village (term) — The global village is a term probably coined by Marshall McLuhan, first recorded in his 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy .The term refers to McLuhan s thesis that electric communications media restore to Western civilization many features expressed …
9global village — the world, esp. considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently. [term introduced by the book War and Peace in the Global Village (1968) by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore] * * * …
10Global Village — Globales Dorf (engl. Global Village) ist ein Begriff aus der Medientheorie, den Marshall McLuhan 1962 in seinem Buch The Gutenberg Galaxy prägte und in seinem letzten Buch The Global Village ausformulierte. Er bezieht sich damit auf die moderne… …
