Which Global Village

Author : Ramesh Srinivasan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479856084

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Whose Global Village? by Ramesh Srinivasan Pdf

Technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected in an online community worldwide. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as accessible to all, in reality, these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly shape labor, economics, and politics, these tools often reinforce the inequalities of globalization, rarely reflecting the perspectives of those at the bottom of the digital divide. This book asks us to reconsider "whose global village" we are shaping with the digital technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world, Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to reimagine what the Internet, mobile phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered from the perspectives of diverse cultures. Such collaboration can pave the way for a people-first approach toward designing and working with new technology worldwide that embraces the realities of communities too often relegated to the margins

Author : Marshall McLuhan,Bruce R. Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:902103184

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The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century by Marshall McLuhan,Bruce R. Powers Pdf

Author : Patrick Porter
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626161924

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The Global Village Myth by Patrick Porter Pdf

Porter challenges the powerful ideology of "Globalism" that is widely subscribed to by the US national security community. Globalism entails visions of a perilous shrunken world in which security interests are interconnected almost without limit, exposing even powerful states to instant war. Globalism does not just describe the world, but prescribes expansive strategies to deal with it, portraying a fragile globe that the superpower must continually tame into order. Porter argues that this vision of the world has resulted in the US undertaking too many unnecessary military adventures and dangerous strategic overstretch. Distance and geography should be some of the factors that help the US separate the important from the unimportant in international relations. The US should also recognize that, despite the latest technologies, projecting power over great distances still incurs frictions and costs that set real limits on American power. Reviving an appreciation of distance and geography would lead to a more sensible and sustainable grand strategy.

Author : Carl Malamud
Publisher : Carl Malamud
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262133385

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A World's Fair for the Global Village by Carl Malamud Pdf

Malamud offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Internet Exposition of 1996--a worldwide event which embraced the new technologies of the Internet--and profiles the small group of people who made it happen. The book comes with an audio CD and a CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows 95. 800 color illustrations.

Author : Raechelle Rubinstein,Linda H. Connor
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824864460

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Staying Local in the Global Village by Raechelle Rubinstein,Linda H. Connor Pdf

One of the world's most intensively studied societies, Bali has hosted scholars and writers as renowned as Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Miguel Covarrubias, Fred Barth, and Hildred and Clifford Geertz. Staying Local in the Global Village is part of a continuing tradition in which Balinese and foreign scholars reflect on the processes of transformation that link Bali to Indonesia and the world beyond. The chapters in this volume are based on research carried out in the early 1990s, when Suharto's New Order still enjoyed widespread legitimacy in Indonesia. Even then, political consensus in Bali was weakened by the inhabitants' view of themselves as an exploited minority of Hindus in a nation dominated by Islamic Javanese. As this book reveals, the ambivalent positioning of Balinese vis-à-vis the national and the global in recent decades has been played out in many different spheres of life. Contributors take up a number of themes that reflect different articulations of the local throughout the twentieth century. Early chapters provide a bird's-eye view of the public culture, local history, definitions of "Balinese-ness," and political struggles over land and sacred space. Later chapters explore specific aspects of Balinese participation in the transformations associated with the tourism-dominated provincial economy, the growth of communications and mass media, and the incursions of the nation-state trough its imperatives of economic development and rationalist discourses. New forms of traditional hegemony, status struggles over the priesthood, contestation about cultural authenticity by marginal groups within the island itself, women's work, the performing arts, and television watching, are all considered in this light, providing a highly nuanced and "local" perspective of global processes in Bali. Contributors: Linda Connor, Mark Hobart, Brett Hough, Graeme MacRae, Ayami Nakatani, Michel Picard, I Gde Pitana, Thomas Reuter, Raechelle Rubinstein, Putu Suasta, Margaret Wiener

Author : Priscilla Boniface,Peter Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134908424

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Heritage and Tourism in The Global Village by Priscilla Boniface,Peter Fowler Pdf

A nation's heritage is one of the most potent forces for generating tourism: the Tower of London is the greatest 'visitor attraction' in Britain. But it is pushed into insignificance by comparison with the visitors travelling to Disneyland, Epcot and the other entertainment complexes in the USA; and it will be dwarfed by Euro-Disneyland east of Paris. So how should heritage attractions respond: should they find their own specific audiences and resources? This book, written by a leading hertage specialist, is essential reading for all those concerned both with heritage and leisure managment. International in scope, it examines successfgul examples of heritage management for tourism, and equally some failures. It aims to lay some useful ground rules which should underpin all heritage developments designed to attract tourism on a major scale.

Author : Lester R. Kurtz
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483386454

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Gods in the Global Village by Lester R. Kurtz Pdf

In a world plagued by religious conflict, how can the various religious and secular traditions coexist peacefully on the planet? And, what role does sociology play in helping us understand the state of religious life in a globalizing world? In the Fourth Edition ofGods in the Global Village, author Lester Kurtz continues to address these questions. This text is an engaging, thought-provoking examination of the relationships among the major faith traditions that inform the thinking and ethical standards of most people in the emerging global social order. Thoroughly updated to reflect recent events, the book discusses the role of religion in our daily lives and global politics, and the ways in which religion is both an agent of, and barrier to, social change.

Author : Marshall McLuhan,Quentin Fiore
Publisher : Gingko Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1584237570

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War and Peace in the Global Village by Marshall McLuhan,Quentin Fiore Pdf

War and Peace in The Global Village is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following its publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be "a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest." Marshall McLuhan illustrates the fact that all social changes are caused by introduction of new technologies. He interprets these new technologies as extensions or "self-amputations of our own being," because technologies extend bodily reach. McLuhan's ideas and observations seem disturbingly accurate and clearly applicable to the world in which we live. War and Peace in the Global Village is a meditation on accelerating innovations leading to identity loss and war. Initially published in 1968, this text is regarded as a revolutionary work for its depiction of a planet made ever smaller by new technologies. A mosaic of pointed insights and probes, this text predicts a world without centres or boundaries. It illustrates how the electronic information travelling around the globe at the speed of light has eroded the rules of the linear, literate world. No longer can there be fixed positions or goals.

Author : Insa Müller
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783839451915

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The Local Museum in the Global Village by Insa Müller Pdf

In remote areas of Europe, local history museums struggle to connect with the rapidly changing and increasingly diverse communities around them. Insa Müller asks how these museums can recast themselves to strengthen the links to their communities. Combining theoretical deliberations, empirical investigations of the case of two Norwegian islands and a museum experiment, she offers starting points for rethinking the local history museum, while at the same time providing suggestions for locally adapted museum practice.

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1962-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802060412

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The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan Pdf

Since its first appearance in 1962, the impact of The Gutenberg Galaxy has been felt around the world. It gave us the concept of the global village; that phrase has now been translated, along with the rest of the book, into twelve languages, from Japanese to Serbo-Croat. It helped establish Marshall McLuhan as the original 'media guru.' More than 200,000 copies are in print. The reissue of this landmark book reflects the continuing importance of McLuhan's work for contemporary readers.

Author : David J. Smith
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781553377320

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If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith Pdf

This bestseller is newly revised with updated statistics, new activities and completely new material on food security, energy and health. By shrinking the planet down to a village of just 100 people, children will discover how to grow up global and establish their own place in the world village.

Author : Angela Krewani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317318330

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McLuhan's Global Village Today by Angela Krewani Pdf

Marshall McLuhan was one of the leading media theorists of the twentieth century. This collection of essays explores the many facets of McLuhan’s work from a transatlantic perspective, balancing applied case studies with theoretical discussions.

Author : Heather E. Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135599706

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From Rural Village to Global Village by Heather E. Hudson Pdf

From Rural Village to Global Village: Telecommunications for Development in the Information Age examines the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on both the macro level--societal, socio-economic, and governmental--and sector level--education, health, agriculture, entrepreneurship--emphasizing rural and developing regions. Author Heather E. Hudson examines the potential impact of ICTs by reviewing the existing research and adding her own findings from extensive fieldwork in ICT planning and evaluation. The volume includes case studies demonstrating innovative applications of ICTs plus chapters on evaluation strategies and appropriate technologies. She also analyzes the policy issues that must be addressed to facilitate affordable ICT access in rural and developing regions. This discussion relates to the larger “digital divide” issue, and the impact that access to communication technology--or the lack of it--has on communities and societies. This comprehensive volume is a valuable resource for scholars, professionals, researchers, and students in telecommunications law and policy, media economics, international communication, and communication and development fields. It is also suitable for use as an advanced-level text in these areas.

Author : Jack Lule
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742568365

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Globalization and Media by Jack Lule Pdf

The global village, however, is not the blissful utopia that McLuhan predicted.

Author : Charles Piot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226189833

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Remotely Global by Charles Piot Pdf

At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of the way" African culture—subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses, and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that village life is in fact an effect of the modern and the global, Charles Piot suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local. Through analyses of everyday and ceremonial social practices, Piot illustrates the intertwining of modernity with tradition and of the local with the national and global. In a striking example of the appropriation of tradition by the state, Togo's Kabre president regularly flies to the region in his helicopter to witness male initiation ceremonies. Confounding both anthropological theorizations and the State Department's stereotyped images of African village life, Remotely Global aims to rethink Euroamerican theories that fail to come to terms with the fluidity of everyday relations in a society where persons and things are forever in motion.