How to Use global village in a Sentence

global village

noun
  • This is why the global village is not a utopian concept or ideal state for McLuhan.
    — Brian A. Cogan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026
  • In short, the advent of the global village had led to a profound reconfiguration of the human sensorium.
    — Brian A. Cogan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026
  • Still, this past August, 80,000 people converged in the Nevada desert to set up what aspires to be a peaceful global village.
    — Dennis Hinkamp, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
  • However, McLuhan was far from optimistic about the possible implications of the global village.
    — Brian A. Cogan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026
  • What is usually missed in examinations of the global village is that McLuhan was not necessarily optimistic about it.
    — Brian A. Cogan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026
  • In other words, the global village attempts to describe rather than celebrate a new situation, a new way of being in the western world which is disincarnate and discontinuous.
    — Brian A. Cogan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026
  • In its simplest form, the concept argues that the rise of electronic media has made the world into a kind of global village, where information is rapidly and almost instantaneously shared worldwide.
    — Brian A. Cogan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026
  • The global village is a phrase that is closely associated with the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan.
    — Brian A. Cogan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026
  • Wired, which embraced the computer and Internet age, had good reasons to admire McLuhan, and some of his quotes on the global village appear highly prescient of how the Internet could connect the world in positive ways.
    — Brian A. Cogan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026
  • McLuhan continually wrote and spoke about the idea of the global village for much of his career and at great length in War and Peace in the Global Village (1968, with Quentin Fiore).
    — Brian A. Cogan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 May 2026

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