commu- nications. In his 1967 book Understanding Media, McLuhan wrote that"the electronic interde- new pendence recreates the world in the image of the global village. At that time, McLuhan was refer- ring to how television allowed people all over the world to share information. With the introduction of technologies such as satellite dishes, the Internet, and email, we have moved beyond the idea of the global village to a process many call globalization, the movement toward markets and policies that go beyond national borders. Due to technological advances, specifically rapid forms of communica- tion, travel, and e-commerce, the events of one part of the world have a significant impact on the rest of the w