One example is social networking websites, which is changing the way people share and use information. ... The emergence of many online news websites, blogs, streaming services, and social networking sites have made it easier for people to receive news. ... Technology creates new job opportunities, innovations, and networking ventures that were not possible before the internet. ... It has had a significant political role in facilitating the communication between groups, assisting the activities of social movements, and the mobilization of political parties, civil society groups and voters. ...

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The recent rise in the magnitude, intensity, and complexity of crime around the world threatens the safety of citizens everywhere and obstruct countries in their social, economic and cultural development. ... Furthermore, criminal groups have established international networks to carry out their activities more effectively through intricate technology and by exploiting today's open borders. ... In addition, the growth of global trade has been associated with the evolution of global financial networks that have made it enormously difficult for governments to regulate and control monetary t...

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Global or world cities are the place where the local meets the global, and they are crucial actors and points of contact for the new networks of the 21st century. These global cities share several key cultural, social, economic, and political features that serve to differentiate them from other large cities. ... According to Abu-Lughod, the fact that cities lie at the center of complex networks constitutes their essential feature (399). ...

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One refers to the networks of multiple relationships; the other refers to the shrinkage of distance on a scale, at multi continental dimensions. Acknowledging the different dimensions of globalism - economic, environmental, military, social/cultural - we note that it is communications globalism - as defined by the thickness and density of the networks that uniquely shape today's globalization processes. ... The Mass Media The Mass Media is a unique feature of modern society; its development has accompanied an increase in the magnitude and complexity of societal actions and engagements, r...

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Technological advances continue to communicate our ability to stretch the boundaries and the use of any personal cellular phone technology or to improve the network can interact with another person from a totally different culture. ... Transnational social movements, movements, and the role of participants in trying to influence policy and national and international organizations, have been more and more. ... From the economic point of view, changes in government policies, coupled with advances in technology has made take considerable translation network "a world without frontiers", therefore...

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The aim of the Shell group is to meet the energy needs of society, in ways that are economically, socially and environmentally viable, now and in the future. ... Shell has an extensive network of Global Solutions offices around the world. ... These are financial, political, legal and social/cultural influences. ... Social and cultural characteristics are a system of values, beliefs, rules, techniques and customs that are shared among a society's people. ... This offers a chance to provide social benefits currently only enjoyed by the minority, such as universal health care and education. ...

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He feels that globalisation leads to crime at both ends of the social spectrum. ... Crime has now expanded into more fluid global networks of contacts who link legitimate activities with the illegitimate. ...

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However, one can also point to a rapid increase in cross-border social, cultural and technological exchange as part of the phenomenon of globalisation. ... Globalisation is the rapid increase in cross-border economic, social, technological exchange under conditions of capitalism. ... David Held and Anthony McGrew write in their entry for Oxford Companion to Politics that globalisation can be conceived as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions, expressed in transcontinental or interregional flows and ne...

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Any cost benefit analysis would start from a recognition that globalisation has indeed improved economic efficiency and it has provided enhanced individual liberty for many; but in its failure to ensure social justice on a global scale, it also inhibits liberty for many more. ... It argues that globalisation is undermining the ability of governments to provide a legitimate social bond between governors and the governed. It is a problem that affects not only developing countries but developed ones as well, if indeed not more so given the more advanced state of the national social bond. I...

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