The dialectical forces of globalization and localization are simultaneously integrating and fragmenting national/cultural identities. The successive breakthroughs of print, telephone, broadcasting, television, and the internet have progressively expanded our domain of communication beyond geographical boundaries. Correspondingly, our identities have expanded from social groups, ethnic communities, cities, states, nations to the West, the East or the cyberspace. In the process of globalizing the local and localizing the global, it is through the act of communication that we negotiate and construct our cultural identities. Consequently, increasingly heated discussions among communication scholars have been focused on key issues and trends in globalizing communication and pluralizing cultural identities. For more information, CLICK HERE.