According to Wisemen he stated that, "what is different about the modern process of globalization is the extent to which time and space have been compresses by new information, communication and transportation technologies (1998).
Many people confuse the concept of global communication with that of international communications. It is true that it is not easy to distinguish, however, I will try to explain the concept of global communications to clarify it.
To start with we can define global communication as the process of sending and receving information on a world wide scale. People have been communicating on a world wide scale for centuries. Neverthless, we need to ask ourselves how did we come to this concept of global communication. The simple and obvious response is ofcoarse, through technology. If we did not have the advent of the newspaper, radio, TV, and most important of all is the Internet, then the world would have never been globalized in first place. So the idea here is that it is only through these technologies that there is GLOBAL COMMUNICATION.
For instance, global markets now have the option to produce less expensive products, the ability to access other people on the other end of the world, new sources of finance and income, and access to new sources of technology. One pure example of this is the Internet which has dramtically altered the world in the last decade. This "miracle" has made our lives easier than that of our grandparents.
As much does Global Communications has positive aspects it does have some limitations to it. The primary limitation to this concept is the control of global information and communication by transnational corporations. Government monopolies still control a huge portion of the world's telecommunication and airwaves flows. Another limitation is the the control of information and communication by online companies. An example of this can be when people sometimes serf on some websites they ask you for certain information such as name and email. These companies are paid for this to get the "immense corporations" information in order to target its audience. Which in most of the times can be annoying and deceiving.
To conclude, global communication is a positive advent but at the same time destroys the code of human intimacy and privacy.
Many people confuse the concept of global communication with that of international communications. It is true that it is not easy to distinguish, however, I will try to explain the concept of global communications to clarify it.
To start with we can define global communication as the process of sending and receving information on a world wide scale. People have been communicating on a world wide scale for centuries. Neverthless, we need to ask ourselves how did we come to this concept of global communication. The simple and obvious response is ofcoarse, through technology. If we did not have the advent of the newspaper, radio, TV, and most important of all is the Internet, then the world would have never been globalized in first place. So the idea here is that it is only through these technologies that there is GLOBAL COMMUNICATION.
For instance, global markets now have the option to produce less expensive products, the ability to access other people on the other end of the world, new sources of finance and income, and access to new sources of technology. One pure example of this is the Internet which has dramtically altered the world in the last decade. This "miracle" has made our lives easier than that of our grandparents.
As much does Global Communications has positive aspects it does have some limitations to it. The primary limitation to this concept is the control of global information and communication by transnational corporations. Government monopolies still control a huge portion of the world's telecommunication and airwaves flows. Another limitation is the the control of information and communication by online companies. An example of this can be when people sometimes serf on some websites they ask you for certain information such as name and email. These companies are paid for this to get the "immense corporations" information in order to target its audience. Which in most of the times can be annoying and deceiving.
To conclude, global communication is a positive advent but at the same time destroys the code of human intimacy and privacy.
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