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GLOBAL VILLAGE PARAGRAPH

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Global Village Paragraph: Global means Worldwide . By the term Global village we mean the world to be a single community linked by telecommunications and internet  connections . the term was first used by Marshall McLuhan. In his two books on media and communication he opined that telephone , tv and electronic media have brought all mankind close to one another . for example if we  watch the news of floods or earthquakes in a distant land on tv we feel that we are also living in there .we can see what is happening  at the same moment . we can share the same suffering with the people who are in the picture at the moment . McLuhan believed that electronic , communication would make the global village . when he first said about the idea  of global village , the internet was not invented . But now personal computers and the internet have made his idea more realistic than ever. now the entire globe is connected in a world wide web called ‘ The internet ‘