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                                                                                   What is global communication essay

        Global communication is the collective processes that are developed and used to create and improve communication on a worldwide level. Global communication brought about many effects. On the one hand, it is blurring economic, political, and cultural boundaries.

        Economically, separate industries that had developed around each of these technologies are combining to service the new multimedia environment through a series of corporate mergers and alliances. Politically, global communication is undermining the traditional boundaries and sovereignties of nations. Direct Broadcast Satellite is violating national borders by broadcasting foreign news, entertainment, educational, and advertising programs with impunity. Similarly, the micro-media of global communication are narrow casting their messages through audio and videocassette recorders, fax machines, computer disks and networks, including the Internet and the World Wide Web. Culturally, the new patterns of global communication are creating a new global Coca-Colonized pop culture of commodity fetishism supported by global advertising and the entertainment industry.

            On the other hand, global communication is empowering hitherto forgotten groups and voices in the international community. Its channels have thus become the arena for contestation of new economic, political, and cultural boundaries. Global communication, particularly in its interactive forms, has created immense new moral spaces for exploring new communities of affinity rather than vicinity. It is thus challenging the traditional top-down economic, political, and cultural systems.

                                                                

      Global communication seems to have at once its discontents. Surrounding them has confronted each other in, political, economic, and cultural encounters. In this context, global communication channels can serve the cause of world peace and reconciliation only if they can be turned into channels of international and inter-civilization dialogue.

                       

                                                                 Work cited

Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, rev. ed. London: Verso.

Brandt, Willy et al. 1980. North-South: A Program for Survival. London: Pan Books.

Brandt, Willy et al. 1985. Common Crisis: North-South Cooperation for World Recovery. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Branscomb, Anne Wells. 1994. Who Owns Information-: From Privacy to Public Access. New York: Basic Books.

Cohen, Eliot A. 1996. "A Revolution in Warfare," Foreign Affairs, March/April: 37-54.

Commission on Global Governance. 1995. Our Global Neighborhood. New York: Oxford University Press.

Global communication outline

What is global communication and how has it promoted the globalization witnessed in the past ten years? 

Introduction

What is global communication?

     Global communication is the collective processes that are developed and used to create and improve communication on a worldwide level. Global communication brought about many effects. On the one hand, it is blurring economic, political, and cultural boundaries.

Thesis statement: Global communication brought about many effects. It is blurring economic, political, and cultural boundaries.


Body

    

         I. Economically

                     i. Industries that had developed around each of these technologies

                    ii. The new multimedia environment through a series of corporate mergers and alliances

        II. Politically

                    i.Undermining the traditional boundaries, and sovereignties of nations.

                   ii. Direct Broadcast Satellite violating national borders by broadcasting foreign news,   entertainment, educational, and advertising programs with impunity

                  iii. The micro-media of global communication narrow casting their messages through audio and videocassette recorders, fax machines, computer disks and networks

      III. Culturally

                  i.The new patterns of global communication are creating a new global Coca-Colonized pop culture

                  ii. Intercultural communication supported by global advertising and the entertainment industry.

Conclusion

 Global communication seems to have at once its discontents. Surrounding them has confronted each other in, political, economic, and cultural encounters. In this context, global communication channels can serve the cause of world peace and reconciliation only if they can be turned into channels of international and inter-civilization dialogue.