WHERE THERE BECOMES HERE: COMMUNICATION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT.

This paper will examine the relationship between the development of means of communication and globalization processes. Since the communication process is elemental social constituted as a separate reality, our assumption is that the change in the type of producing communication can be considered as a change in the society. Electronic communication immediacy substantially changed the linear system of our civilization - it's all center and all the while, peripherals. Compression, implosion time-and-space breaks the link between the „when“ and „where“, that is, between „here“ and „there“. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]