The term globalization is often used to mean economic globalization. Besides economics, what other globalization forces affect the communication sphere?

 

Besides economics, there is also media globalization and cultural globalization which affect the communication sphere. Media globalization or what we commonly known as "Global Media" is the mass communication on the global level that allows people across the world to share and access the same information. Today, people all over the world have easy access to communicate with each other and to be aware of the news all over the world. It is just like through media we can communicate to others even to the people all around the globe. On the other hand, cultural globalization by which the experience of everyday life as influenced by the diffusion of commodities and ideas also affects communication by transmitting meanings, ideas and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations.