The spread of culture under the umbrella of globalization

This book examines globalization and its effects from the perspective of how differences in access to online communication technologies between the economically developed countries and less economically developed countries is affecting social, economic, educational, and political developments in the world's emerging economies. This collection also examines how this situation is creating a global digital divide that will have adverse consequences for all nations. Each of the book's chapters thus presents trends and ideas related to the global digital divide between economically developed countries and less economically developed nations. Through this approach, the contributors present perspectives from the economically developing nations themselves versus other texts that explore this topic from the perspective of economically developed countries. In this way, the book provides a new and an important perspective to the growing literature on the global digital divide. This chapter aims to avoid the problem of overgeneralization and to make the analytical and practical distinctions between aspects of economic, political, and social life easier to identify and comprehend. In essence, understanding culture is necessary to success in the modern environment of globalization.