Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents the theory of global constitution, of globality understood as communicative connection; though not just "mere" connection. It highlights many of the issues that attend scholarship in the current phase of global constitution. The book suggests use of complexity theory as appropriate for the study of emergent globalities. This adoption takes note of its willingness to accommodate turbulence and flux as social dynamics (good) and it's less than robust grasp of history and agency (bad). It then describes and analyses features of emergent globalities constituted through world-making practices as these are seen in three communicative and empirical domains. These are the globalization and the mediatization of sport; the mediatization and transformation of political space and activism and the globalization and mediatization of everyday lives – possibly of everything – along with the prospects for a post-human future.