H. Marshall McLuhan believed that the linking of electronic information would create an interconnected global village by collapsing communication space and time barriers thus enabling people to interact and live on a global scale (Barnes, 2001;
McLuhan, 1962; McLuhan & Powers, 1989). Today the global village acts as a metaphor
for the complex interconnected electronic world that McLuhan predicted would emerge
and provides a framework for helping us analyze our relationship with the media today
and most importantly prepare for the future (Gozzi, 1996; McLuhan & Powers, 1989).
The glob
