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Culture, technology, communication : towards an intercultural global village / edited Charles Ess, with Fay Sudweeks ; foreword by Susan Herring.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in computer-mediated communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society--Cross-cultural studies.
- Information society.
- Information technology--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
- Information technology.
- Intercultural communication.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Introduction: What's Culture Got to Do with It? Cultural Collisions in the Electronic Global Village, Creative Interferences, and the Rise of Culturally-Mediated Computing / Charles Ess 1
- I. Theoretical Approaches: Postmodernism, Habermas, Luhmann, Hofstede
- Understanding Micropolis and Compunity / Steve Jones 53
- Electronic Networks and Civil Society: Reflections on Structural Changes in the Public Sphere / Barbara Becker, Josef Wehner 67
- National Level Culture and Global Diffusion: The Case of the Internet / Carleen F. Maitland, Johannes M. Bauer 87
- II. Theory/Praxis
- a. Europe
- New Kids on the Net: Deutschsprachige Philosophie elektronisch / Herbert Hrachovec 131
- Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication: A Study in the "Multi-cultural" Environment of Switzerland / Lucienne Rey 151
- b. Gender/Gender and Muslim World
- Diversity in On-Line Discussions: A Study of Cultural and Gender Differences in Listservs / Concetta M. Stewart, Stella F. Shields, Nandini Sen 161
- New Technologies, Old Culture: A Look at Women, Gender, and the Internet in Kuwait / Deborah Wheeler 187
- c. East-West/East
- Preserving Communication Context: Virtual Workspace and Interpersonal Space in Japanese CSCW / Lorna Heaton 213
- Internet Discourse and the Habitus of Korea's New Generation / Sunny Yoon 241
- "Culture," Computer Literacy, and the Media in Creating Public Attitudes toward CMC in Japan and Korea / Robert J. Fouser 261
- III. Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences on the (Silk) Road to the Global Village: Indian and Thailand
- Language, Power, and Software / Kenneth Keniston 283
- Global Culture, Local Cultures, and the Internet: The Thai Example / Soraj Hongladarom 307.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791450155
- 0791450163
- OCLC:
- 44732329
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