Global village: Globalization through a media ecology lens

This article explores the expanding body of scholarship on globalization in conjunction with media ecology’s potential to enrich and clarify the concept of globalization. Marshall McLuhan represents a point of contact for media ecology to globalization discourse, especially considering how often globalization scholars cite McLuhan’s notion of the ‘global village’. That village is an environment produced both by technological change and human imagination of this globalized environment. The author proposed several areas of dialogue and overlap, including themes of transformation, intensification of social relations, and culture that link the corpus of globalization discourse to media ecology.