Global cultural flows
Global cultural flow involves the flow of people, artifacts, and ideas across national boundaries as result of globalization. : 296  Global cultural flows can be observed in five interdependent 'Landscapes', or dimensions, that distinguish the fundamental disjunctures between economy, culture, and politics in the global cultural economy.The five dimensions of global cultural flow include:: 296 
ethnoscapes — flow of people Human migrations;
technoscapes — flow and configurations of technology;
financescapes — flow of money and global Business networks;
mediascapes — flow of cultural industry networks; and
ideoscapes — flow of ideas, images, and their nexuses.These dimensions restructure "the means by which individuals establish personal and collective identities." The common suffix -scape denotes these terms as being "perspectival constructs inflected…by the historical, linguistic, and political situatedness of different kinds of actors: nation-states, multinationals, diasporic communities, as well as subnational groupings and movements (whether religious, political or economic)," as well as "intimate face-to-face groups, such as villages, neighborhoods and families. ": 296 The five dimensions were introduced by anthropologist and globalization theorist Arjun Appadurai in his essay "Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy" (1990). Because cultural exchange and transactions have typically been restricted in the past due to geographical and economical obstacles, Appadurai's five dimensions allow for cultural transactions to occur.