Globalization

What is globalization? It is the growth to a global or worldwide scale, but that is not to say that globalization is something “big”. More or less, we have to think about it as the world becoming smaller and localized. As a concept, it “refers both to the ‘shrinking’ of the world and increased consciousness of the world as a whole. It is a term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that are the result of dramatically increased cross-border trade, investment, and cultural exchange (Globalization - New World Encyclopedia).” It is also “the pursuit of classical liberal policies in the world economy, the growing dominance of western (American) forms of political, economic, and cultural life, the proliferation of new information technologies, as well as the notion that humanity stands at the threshold of realizing one single unified community in which major sources of social conflict have vanished (Globalization (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)).” Even though most countries are moving forward and advancing “globally”, some unfortunate nations are being left behind because of their “information poverty.” In her article, “Information Poverty and the Wired World”, Pippa Norris explains how even though we are going through a technological boom, hindered nations are being left far behind as opposed to the super powers of the world.

Works Cited

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Norris, Pippa. "Information Poverty and the Wired World." The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. Vol. 5, No. 3, (2003)