UID:
almafu_9958087701802883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 355 p. )
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ill. ;
ISBN:
0-7914-9048-3
Series Statement:
SUNY series in Computer-Mediated Communication
Content:
Stability and success in our electronic global village increasingly depends on the complex interactions of culture, communication, and technology. This book offers both theoretical approaches and case studies of these interactions from diverse cultural domains, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. This global perspective helps to counteract the Anglo-American presumptions that have dominated discussion and literature on computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies. The contributors uncover and challenge the culture-bound values and communicative preferences inherent in CMC technologies—including values and preferences related to gender—and also document non-Western examples of implementing these technologies in ways that catalyze global communication while preserving and enhancing local cultures. Taken together, these essays articulate the interdisciplinary foundations and practical models necessary to design and use CMC technologies in ways that help us to avoid the choice between a global but culturally homogenous "McWorld" and fragmented local cultures whose identities are preserved only in their opposition to globalization.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Front Matter --
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Contents --
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Foreword --
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Acknowledgments --
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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 --
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Theoretical Approaches: Postmodernism, Habermas, Luhmann, Hofstede --
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Understanding Micropolis and Compunity --
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Electronic Networks and Civil Society: Reflections on Structural Changes in the Public Sphere --
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National Level Culture and Global Diffusion: The Case of the Internet --
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Theory/Praxis --
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New Kids on the Net: Deutschsprachige Philosophie elektronisch --
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Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication: A Study in the “Multi-cultural” Environment of Switzerland --
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Diversity in On-Line Discussions: A Study of Cultural and Gender Differences in Listservs --
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New Technologies, Old Culture: A Look at Women, Gender, and the Internet in Kuwait --
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Preserving Communication Context: Virtual Workspace and Interpersonal Space in Japanese CSCW --
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Internet Discourse and the Habitus of Korea’s New Generation --
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“Culture,” Computer Literacy, and the Media in Creating Public Attitudes toward CMC in Japan and Korea --
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Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences on the (Silk) Road to the Global Village: India and Thailand --
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Language, Power, and Software --
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Global Culture, Local Cultures, and the Internet: The Thai Example --
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Contributors --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7914-5015-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9780791490488
