Global village
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Global village may refer to:
- Global village (term)Global Village (term)Global Village is a term closely associated with Marshall McLuhan, popularized in his books The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man and Understanding Media . McLuhan described how the globe has been contracted into a village by electric technology and the instantaneous movement of...
, a term commonly used to describe the societal and cultural effects of telecommunications. - Global Village (Dubai)Global Village (Dubai)Global Village Dubailand is the world's largest tourism, leisure and entertainment project. It is the region’s first premier cultural, entertainment, family and shopping destination; celebrating diverse cultures, art, theater and cuisine from around the world. Every year, it welcomes 6 million...
, cultural, entertainment and shopping destination located at Dubailand in DubaiDubaiDubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi... - Global Village (TV series), an Australian television show
- Global Village (radio show)Global Village (radio show)Global Village was an entertainment program on the Radio One and Radio 2 networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, hosted by Jowi Taylor. It was heard on the Radio One network between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. local time on Wednesdays, or 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Newfoundland, and on the...
, a Canadian radio show - Global Village, an American radio show broadcast on 90.7FM KPFK in Los Angeles
- Global Village, an international educational youth festival organised by the Woodcraft Folk and the IFM-SEI
- Global Village (telecommunications)Global Village (telecommunications)Global Village was a leading manufacturer of easy-to-use fax modems and other telecommunications products for the Apple Macintosh platform. It was one of the few manufacturers to support the Mac's RS422 serial ports without requiring an adaptor...
, a manufacturer of consumer modems, now a division of Zoom TechnologiesZoom TechnologiesZoom Telephonics, Inc. designs and produces Voice over IP gateways, DSL modems, cable modems, dial-up modems, Bluetooth products, and other communications products under Zoom, Hayes and Global Village brands.... - Global Village TelecomGlobal Village TelecomGlobal Village Telecom is a Brazilian telecomunications company that offers advanced services on fixed phone, broadband for both consumer and business and VoIP...
, a Brazilian telecommunications company.