Human Interest in the Global South: The Gemini News Service (1967–2002)

As a metaphor, Marshall McLuhan’s ‘global village’ has seen better days. ((Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, reprint (Cambridge, MA and London, 1994 [1964]), 34.)) During optimistic times, it succinctly conveyed the image of an ever more closely connected world in which people separated by vast distances could easily have a chat, as if across the garden fence or at the local pub. Nowadays, however, it is described at best as a pastoral front for enduring colonial ...