Who has coined the term 'global village'?

The term 'global village' was coined by the Canadian philosopher and communication theorist Marshall McLuhan. He introduced the concept in his works The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) and Understanding Media (1964).

McLuhan used the term to describe how electronic mass media (like television and radio) collapse space and time barriers, allowing people to communicate and experience events instantaneously across the globe. This connectivity effectively shrinks the world into a single community, similar to a small village where information spreads rapidly.

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