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From an Answer to a Question: Globalization in the Information Age

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Abstract

If asked to summarize the contemporary age, it is likely that we would focus on the phenomena of information or globalization. The connection between the two is made explicit in the current wave of interest in Marshall McLuhan and, in particular, his hyperbolic claims about the ‘global village’ (McLuhan and Fiore 1967, 1968). Yet despite the volume of comment that has been written about globalization there is little consensus about what it means or what its implications are.

The driving force behind the third way is globalization. (Blair 1999)

No globalization without representation. (On Line Networking for the Environment 1999)

The adjective ‘global’ applied to a topic lends it cachet; it seems far more sophisticated to pontificate about global competition or global financial markets than to talk about merely domestic antitrust or bank regulation. (Krugman 1994: 170–1)

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    Stephen Lax (Lecturer in Communications Technology) (Lecturer in Communications Technology)

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Brown, R. (2001). From an Answer to a Question: Globalization in the Information Age. In: Lax, S. (eds) Access Denied in the Information Age. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985465_13

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