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“Global Age,” “Digital Revolution,” and “Clash of Civilizations,” according to Martin Albrow, Manuel Castells, Samuel P. Huntington and others, could give the impression that consensual, universal, and constant conventions and agreements are first unnecessary and second, often even impossible in a world that has become multicultural and virtual. This essay is meant to irritate and destroy conventional meanings and tries to highlight some of the problems and ambiguities of heterogeneous, homogeneous, and incompatible communities in a global and digital world.
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Lucke, D.M. (2019). Conventions. In: Kühnhardt, L., Mayer, T. (eds) The Bonn Handbook of Globality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90382-8_44
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