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n. The world as a single community of interdependent inhabitants who are interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the World Wide Web.
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Global Village Dubailand, Dubai, is claimed to be the world's largest tourism, leisure and entertainment project. It is the region's first cultural, entertainment, family and shopping destination. Every year, it has over 5 million visitors over an area of .
Global Village was an Australian television show broadcast by the Australian public broadcaster SBS. The program was hosted by Silvio Rivier, who also did many of the voice overs. In 2008 it combined with Thalassa, a French documentary series, to expand its coverage of coastal areas.
Global Village covered communities from all over the globe. The show consisted of usually two, mostly short films 10–15 minutes long describing land and people all across the world. About 50% come from a French TV station and thus deal with topics from France, or, less frequently, its former colonies.
The main focus is to educate viewers about different cultures and working styles from around the world. Global Village has released two music CDs which contain a selection of music taken from the countries they visit.
Global Village was an entertainment program on the Radio One and Radio 2 networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, hosted by Jowi Taylor. It was heard on the Radio One network between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. local time on Wednesdays, or 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Newfoundland, and on the Radio Two network between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturdays. The program was also heard over Radio Canada International. The main concept of Global Village was a showcase of music from around the world, as well as news pertaining to international music.
In March 2007, the program was cancelled, although elements of it were incorporated into a new expanded one-hour edition of the documentary series Dispatches.
Global village may refer to:
"Global village" is a term closely associated with Canadian-born Marshall McLuhan, popularized in his books The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) and Understanding Media (1964). McLuhan described how the globe has been contracted into a village by electric technology and the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time.
'' Global Village was a leading manufacturer of easy-to-use fax modems and other telecommunications products for the Apple Macintosh platform. It was one of the few manufacturers to support the Mac's RS422 serial ports without requiring an adaptor. Major product lines included the TelePort series of high speed desktop dialup modems, the PowerPort series of internal PowerBook modems as well as a series of modems that connected to the Mac's ADB port. Many of its products were bundled with the Macintosh Performa series of computers and it was the manufacturer for the internal modem in the PowerBook 500 series.
The company also produced the OneWorld fax server and the GlobalFax fax software for Macintosh computers, which it bundled with its hardware.
Global Village later became a division of Zoom Telephonics.
Usage examples of "global village".
On the other hand, I feel responsible for you, my brother or my sister in this global village.
We must disarm, we must empower the United Nations, we must move to one currency, and we must become a global village.
But consider with me for a moment the advantages and privileges and benefits that have resulted from the uniting of every nation into one global village.
Better to cajole them into being reasonable, because in reasonableness was their best salvation as a nation in the global village.
The world through which The Man and Mary ofMagdala travelled was a far cry from our own, computerised global village but, as the inspired reasoning and dramatic observation of the Greek philosophers and playwrights have shown, there has been very little change in the human condition.
The New World Order bureaucrats want one big global village, which they run.
Somewhere along the line, the entire global village had slipped into neurotic denial.
Even in the electronic global village, sometimes you just have to wait.
Marshall McLuhan was correct to see that planetary human culture, the global village, would be tribal in character.
Para-DNA had no chance of keeping its secrets, no matter how fervently it clung to the fugitive backwoods of the global village, and no matter how hard it tried to disguise itself as the detritus of a twentieth-century oil spill.
But this was not the sort of secret that could be kept for more than a few milliseconds in the electronic global village.