The birth of Global Communication

Global Communication as we know it today took its time to develop, as did humans. In fact, communication technologies were not available before, and the world was confronted to the geography of space. It was a real barrier to communication in the past. Today, the world is facing three different societies: the traditional society(taking the example of Morocco), the modern society(taking the example of France) and the post-modern society(taking the example of Japan). The geography of space was a obstacle for both movement of information, but also movement of people.

The German Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450. This invention was very important for the diffusion of text and knowledge. At that time, the only books he could work on was the Bible, but it was the beginning of a news era and a new Global Communication face by simply spreading information the way he could.

There has been another important protagonist in the history of Global Communication: Benedict Anderson. In fact, he focused his constructivist approach on nationalism, targeting the question of "imaginary collectivism". In fact, he defined the nation as being an "imaginary political community" where people who don't even know each other feel part of the same group (community). He explained this phenomenon by three cultural conceptions: religion, the end of dynasties, and the conception of time (time becoming mesurable). This cultural consciousness found its power in the development of capitalism, thanks to the development of a new communication technology as the printing press and the development of vernacular languages. For him, the success of nationalism is the combination of universalism and individualism.