One World, One Culture? The Globalisation Debate

This weeks focus was on the globalisation debate within popular culture. According to Held et al (1999: 14-16) ‘Globalisation is the widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary life, from the cultural to the criminal, the financial to the spiritual’. Furthermore, according to Baylis & Smith (1997: 7) Globalisation