familiar with the term global village, first coined by the popular media theorist, Marshall McLuhan and repeatedly used and expanded upon by other media and technology experts. The same view is endorsed and extended in Joshua Meyrowitz's book 'No Sense of Place' first published in 1985. The author argues that because of television and in fact all forms of media, our sense of geographical place has vanished or at least diminished to certain extent and overtaken by what is call the sense of 'the "situational geography" of social life'. (p. 6)

Meyrowitz's theory of 'situations as information-systems' (Meyrowitz, 1985: 35-8) is grounded in the realization that with media come has not only come closer to others but in the process has also lost his sense of spatial reality. In short the author asserts that in our electronic society, we have no real sense of place in geographical terms. Mey's work...
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