Globalization therefore is a very complicated subject because it is difficult for any one nation to collectively attain and maintain a high level of knowledge of foreign affairs simply because this distribution of knowledge is skewed due to information poverty. Information poverty is the maldistribution of knowledge that results from uneven levels of infrastructure in different parts of the world that do or do not allow the means of that nation to receive this information by use of technology.
Specifically, "basic access is required before the potential benefits of the Internet can flow to developing societies" [1]. Third world nations have difficulty attaining worldly information simply because they do not have the means. Shockingly, on the other hand, developed nations also have difficulty obtaining world information because the way news programs report foreign news results in a "lack of information about the social, political, cultural, or economic conditions of autonomous societies elsewhere" that leads to Americans having a "selective and superficial knowledge of some parts of the world" [2].
The overall result is that information poverty hinders globalization. It makes worldly knowledge difficult to obtain for many nations in many ways.
[1] Norris, Pippa. "Information Poverty and the Wired World." The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 2000. Print. p. 1
[2] Hardt, Hanno. Myths for the Masses: An Essay on Mass Communication. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004. Print. p. 51
