What are the possibilities of and obstacles to the development of global online communication?

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Global Media, Global Culture

What are the possibilities of and obstacles to the development of global online communication?

This paper shall analyse the importance of globalisation in this day and age, and the relevance that it has in accordance to the development of global online communication. Anthony Giddens argues that globalisation is, "The intensification of world wide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa" (1990). This quotation highlights the relevance and importance that globalisation has on its society today, and the ever-changing world of technology that is affecting every person in every corner of the globe. In order to understand and discuss the possibilities and obstacles of the development of global online communication, it is firstly imperative to understand what globalisation is, and why it affects the public sphere in the way that it does. This paper shall firstly discuss what globalisation is, and then relate this definition back to global online communication. It shall then go on to examine the possibilities and obstacles that may come about through the development of online communication, discussing issues such as the modernisation