"What is global communication and how has it promoted the globalization witnessed in the past ten years?"

Global communication basically means to use different means of communication to share ideas, news, and culture between people of different corners of the world.[1] Globalization is a process by which business industries, societies, and cultures become integrated through a global network of communication.[1] The way people communicate has been developing ever since the early age, but the development it went through in the past decade has been unbelievable. The development of global communication system has been playing a vital role for the overall economy of the world. The development of global communication helps flourish businesses, innovation of new technologies, and change the political and economical aspect.


Global communication started from the very early generation of mankind and became complex in lateral stages. People used the mode of transportation as a source of communication by developing postal service. This was a big break through back then, although it might take a very long time, even ordinary people without any transportation source was able to communicate with people from distance. After the invention of telephone and television, people were able to communicate globally more easily and quickly. This is where the globalization process started. it became more easier after the invention of internet which took globalization to next level.


Business has flourished due to global communication in the last decade. Even ordinary people living in a very remote area can have his own business by buying and selling things online. The websites like EBay, Craigslist have been one of the major leaders for online shopping. The method of payment of the goods purchased online has been made easy. The services like PayPal, bill me later has helped people earn foreign money by doing global business. . Moreover, the invention of video chat has made employee selection even easier and cost efficient. They can just interview people during a video chat.


The innovation of new technologies brought people around the world together. The twenty-four hours satellite television broadcasting fed us news around the world as it happened. The social media networks such as Facebook and Skype interconnected the global society Impressively. However, all of these innovations have had some limitation in keeping privacy. As these technologies expanded, the privacy of citizens could be under threat as well. There are a great deal of threat in stealing government secrets, intellectual property, and accesses individual information.


Global communication changed the dynamic of politics and economy through out of the world. When national disaster occurs somewhere around the world, it makes it easier to coordinate the effort to respond to national disaster. Politicians do not have to travel other countries for official visit rather communicate with video live chat so it minimizes the cost of travelling and allowance. On the other hand, Global communication has a huge impact on global economy. It would take a couple of seconds to hover panic among investors and swing stock market.


All these conclude that although global communication helps people exchange information, ideas, news and politics; the main purpose is to flourish business from individual to international level. It plays a very important role in expanding economical development, bringing people around the world, and facilitating the interaction between governments greatly.




Citation

1)Tolliday, Daniel. "A Definition of Global Communication." December 5, 2010. November 16, 2011.http://www.ehow.com/facts_7601794_definition-global-communication.html