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Human Interest in the Global South: The Gemini News Service (1967–2002)

Year: 2024

Type: other

Abstract: As a metaphor, Marshall McLuhan’s ‘global village’ has seen better days. ((Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, reprint (Cambridge, MA and London, 1994 [1964]), 34.)) During optimistic times, it succinctly conveyed the image of an ever more closely connected world in which people separated by vast distances could easily have a chat, as if across the garden fence or at the local pub. Nowadays, however, it is described at best as a pastoral front for enduring colonial ...

Source: Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)

DOI: 10.58079/12wt4

Author: Leonie Wolters

Language: English

Topic: Media Studies and Communication

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6974325516

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