The Internet Contributes To The Process Of Globalization

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unified sense of shared memories. Furthermore it is immutable proof that the Internet is perhaps the most powerful tool of globalization

It has been argued that the opening presumption that there exists a "coercive, sometimes wholly unconscious force of American imperialism over the Net." It's a statement that depends on some obsolete notions about the nation-state, propaganda, media, and imperialism. The Internet doesn't promote imperialism - it eradicates it. The underlying force threatening the paranoid enemies of so-called American Imperialism is progress itself. The Internet is no more American than electricity. It may have been invented there, but electrons have no national allegiance. And soon, neither will the information transformed global community.

What would a man from Mars, looking at this world and the Internet make of all this talk of globalization and by extension cultural imperialism. There is lot of controversy surrounding the amount of English on the Net. ...

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