Welcome back to Current affair I’m joined by Michael Carton who plays Darryl Kerrigan in the much loved film “The Castle” the castle is a iconic Australian movie portraying a battling Australian family living in a low socioeconomic‚ near and expanding airport. The owner of the airport‚ air link wants to buy the kerryigan family home amongst others is in the way of the development. Darryl his family and friends mount a high profile high court battle in a successful attempt to protect their homes‚
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The global village is vastly evident throughout all of society‚ moreso than ever before. As a result of the formation of this global village‚ there has been many consequences for society. With the rising coexistence of local and global communities‚ local society is adapting to suit the needs of the global village. Hence‚ there is a battle between the individual and the power of globalisation‚ as the world is becoming more connected. Rob Sitch’s 1997 film‚ ‘The Castle’‚ portrays the effects of the
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Global Village is a term closely associated with Marshall McLuhan‚[1] popularized in his books The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) and Understanding Media (1964). McLuhan describes how the globe has been contracted into a village by electric technology[2] and the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time [3]. In bringing all social and political functions together in a sudden implosion‚ electric speed has heightened human awareness
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Global Village Today the term global village is common the world becomes approximate day after day via technology which has been making our life style faster. The relationship with each other more consolidated. Also‚ an industry deems one of the important reasons to make the world become a small village. Although a existence of many agents to make the world as a small village‚ I believe there are three main reasons of that. The first and most important reason that helps the world to become
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Global Village Draft Having media and technology accessible on demand 24/7‚ 365 days of the year means information spreads across the globe within minutes. Communication has never been so easy.Countries are no longer isolated units functioning on their own‚ but instead‚ are like discrete families within a small‚ closely knit community. Nick Enright’s play “A Man with Five Children” and the BBC documentary “ How Facebook Changed The World: The Arab Spring” are both examples of how technology and
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Mediated Communication November 2004 Marshall Mcluhan’s Global Village and its relevance in today’s society Nicholas Jones 1960’s America was a time of challenging authority and established conventions. It was into this era that a Professor of Media studies at Toronto University rose to media personality status. Marshall Mcluhan is famous for introducing society to catchy aphorisms such as “the medium is the message”. Although his theories have always been contested‚ they were
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world we live in is intricately connected in a sometimes shocking way. But this shrinking world idea is nothing new. It’s defiantly more apparent these days‚ and a little disturbing because it is moving so rapidly. But people have anticipated this global connectedness via the internet for a very‚ very long time‚ even before the world wide web was ever created‚ some folks anticipated a new technology that would connect the masses in a whole new way. You may be familiar with the name Marshal McLuhan
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A Canadian writer and educator named Marshall McLuhan came up with the phrase‚ "the global village" to describe our world. What is a village? "A small community where everyone knows each other" springs to mind. Perhaps the thought that each person in the community helps the village to survive and so everyone is dependent on each other applies. These are good descriptions of a village but could we say this about our world? Physically our world is enormous. How can we all be connected to each
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what is meant by Global Village. The late Marshal McLuhan‚ a media and communication theorist‚ coined the term‚ “global village” in 1964 to describe the phenomenon of the world’s culture shrinking and expanding at the same time due to pervasive technological advances that allow for instantaneous sharing of culture (Harris 2007). The term itself simple suggest that a global village refers to the act of virtually transforming the world into a village. This implies a hypothetical
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information with one another is called communication. The world is becoming a small-intersected community for the rapid changes in technology‚ expansion of multinational business or activities‚ transportation and immigration. The sustainability of global economy largely depends on the multinational business or other activities. Therefore‚ it is essential to communicate effectively among the people from different cultures‚ nations and groups. But cultural differences stand as barrier for effective
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