Going Global -

The Global Village is perhaps now a Global Metropolis?



"The Global Village is a world in which you ... have extreme concern with everybody elses business and much involvement in everybody elses life."

Marshall McCluhan

What makes us, us? Like a neighbour poking their head through the curtains, we now live our lives open to scrutiny and surveillance. No longer is there the requirement to gossip in the local village shop. Our very thoughts and movements are just a click away.

We can acknowledge the huge impact the Digital Revolution has had on our culture, politics and business, but what of the psychological affects? Have we lost our sense of reality, or have we altered and adapted?

Generation Web.

There is now a generation who only know a life online.

Far from the intimacy evoked by the term "Global Village", this spiralling community can be daunting, alienating and lonely.

So it has been established through the lectures of Digital Culture's impact on our lives, but where is Globilization taking us?

Perhaps one of the really frightening aspects of this module. We are alone......