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MENTAL MODEL · M2146

Global Village

Global Village
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

Electronic media (television/internet) eliminate spatial distance, making people around the world feel as if they live in a small village, instantly perceiving each other through the 'tribal drum' (information flow).

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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- Retribalization: The internet does not make people more rational (a characteristic of the literate age), but rather more tribal (a characteristic of the oral age). We have returned to a village state connected by gossip, emotion, and presence.

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McLuhan proposed that electronic media eliminate spatial distance, making global instant interconnection like a village. The deep mechanism is that media change the perceptual structure—from the 'tribalization-detribalization-retribalization' of print, electronic media return people to an oral village state connected by emotion and presence.

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