- Who introduced the idea of the ‘global village’?
- What does the term mean?
- What does Robertson mean by his description of globalisation as ‘both the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole’? answer with an example.
- What does Waters suggest?
- What does Moores mean when he says the local is not ‘marginalised‘ … but ‘instantaneously pluralised‘?
- Bauman talks about winners and losers. Who are the losers and why?
- What other term is used to describe the lack of this facility? [P 70]
- What issue might there be with the perception that US culture has become the norm across the world?
- In quantitative terms what has access to broadband done beneficially?
- How about qualitatively?
- There are two kinds of successful hybrid programmes. How are they different? [P 73-75] and give examples.
- What is citizen journalism?
- List some of the issues for news which arise out of the proliferation of citizen journalism.