- The document introduces key terms related to global media, including globalization and Marshall McLuhan's concept of the "global village" from the 1960s. - McLuhan predicted the process of globalization driven by an increasingly media-mediated society, even before technologies like cable TV, the internet, and mobile phones. - Globalization in media can be defined as a process where geographic constraints on social and cultural arrangements recede and people become more aware of this, according to Waters (1995).