Global Village

Question 1

Global Village is Bad

Hall

Cultural homogenisation

Answer 1

Cultural homogenisation leads to uniformity and standardisation

Question 2

Global Village is Bad

John Harris

Control of cultural standards

Answer 2

Countries with more economic influence (eg USA) control cultural standards by which the rest of the world has to live by

Question 3

Global Village is Good

McLuhan

Answer 3

People can connect quickly through tech
not reliant on face2face contact

Question 4

Global Village is Good

Haraway

Answer 4

Opportunity to challenge traditional roles.

Positive impact to those experiencing inequality and oppression

Digital communication is open, democratic
Allows greater equality in the sharing of ideas

Patriarchy can be challenged

Question 5

What’s a global village

Answer 5

Global village is the idea that the world is becoming a much smaller and globalised area, for example
people can now communicate without even seeing each other from across the world, apps such as
Twitter and Instagram mean that it’s possible to talk to people miles away from you, an example is
Carter’s Cybercity, which shows how digital communication has formed relationships with new people
and can access each other in a globalised way, increasing their social capital. It’s now argued, we spend
more time in relationships online than offline. McLuhan argues we live in a global village.