Abstract
"We now live in a Global Village... a simultaneous happening" McLuhan and Fiore (1967) declared. Indeed, with the rise of electric media such as TV, radio, the telephone, and especially the Internet, it seems that people are ever more connected with each other. Herbert Marshall McLuhan popularized the expression "global village", meant to qualify the consequences of new media and technologies of information and communication, and also globalization. Electric media is an international connection, making us members of a "global village".
Even more than radio or TV, the Internet appears to provide the most convincing argument for the "global village", almost the fulfillment of McLuhan's vision. However, McLuhan's predictions on the global village have not all been met. For this reason, do we really live in a global village? How is the concept of the "global village", as defined by McLuhan, challenged in today's society?
