New media and intercultural communication: identity, community and politics
New York et al.:
Peter Lang
(2012), xx, 337 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-433-11365-9
"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world." (Publisher)
Contents
1. Introduction: Mediated Intercultural Communication Matters: Understanding New Media, Dialectics, and Social Change / Pauline Hope Cheong, Judith N. Martin and Leah P. MacFadyen, 1
SECTION ONE: THEORIZING NEW MEDIA AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
2. Designing for Culture: An Ecological Perspective on Indigenous Knowledge and Database Design / Maja Van Der Velden, 21
3. A Structurational Interaction Approach to Investigating Culture, Identity, and Mediated Communication / Beth Bonniwell Haslett, 39
4. Exploring Cultural Challenges in E-Learning / Bolanle A. Olaniran, 61
5. Culture, Context, and Cyberspace: Rethinking Identity and Credibility in International Virtual Teams / Kirk St. Amant, 75
SECTION TWO: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES
6. Producing the Self at the Digital Interface / Natalia Rybas, 93
7. Who Am I in Virtual Space? A Dialectical Approach to Students' Online Identity Expression / Ping Yang, 109
8. New Media and Asymmetry in Cultural Identity Negotiation / Guo-Ming Chen And Xiaodong Dai, 123
9. Negotiating a New Identity Online and Off-Line: The HeartNET Experience / Debbie Rodan, Lynsey Uridge and Lelia Green, 139
10. Inoculating against Invisibility: The Friendly Circle of Cancer Patients' Chinese Blog / Wei Sun and Andrew Jared Critchfield, 155
SECTION THREE: NEGOTIATING COMMUNITY
11. Rite of Death as a Popular Commodity: Neoliberalism, Media, and New Korean Funeral Culture / Joonseong Lee, 175
12. Far Away from Home . . . With a Mobile Phone! Reconnecting and Regenerating the Extended Family in Africa / Gado Alzouma, 193
13. When Indian Women Text Message: Culture, Identity, and Emerging Interpersonal Norms of New Media / Robert Shuter, 209
14. To Browse or Not to Browse: Perceptions of the Danger of the Internet by Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women / Azi Lev-On and Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, 223
15. From the Coffee Table Album to the Mobile Phone: A Portuguese Case Study / Carla Ganito and Catia Ferreira, 237
SECTION FOUR: ENGAGING POLITICS
16. Asian American New Media Communication as Cultural Engagement: E-mail, Vlog/Blogs, Mobile Applications, Social Networks, and YouTube / Konrad Ng, 255
17 Jamaica and Chile Online: Accessing and Using the Internet in a Developing World Context / Nickesia Gordon and Kristin Sorensen, 275
18 Cultural Peculiarities of Russian Audience Participation in Political Discourse in the Era of New Technologies / Irina Privalova, 291
19 The Vienna Unibrennt Platform: Hidden Pitfalls of the Social Web / Herbert Hrachovec, 307
SECTION ONE: THEORIZING NEW MEDIA AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
2. Designing for Culture: An Ecological Perspective on Indigenous Knowledge and Database Design / Maja Van Der Velden, 21
3. A Structurational Interaction Approach to Investigating Culture, Identity, and Mediated Communication / Beth Bonniwell Haslett, 39
4. Exploring Cultural Challenges in E-Learning / Bolanle A. Olaniran, 61
5. Culture, Context, and Cyberspace: Rethinking Identity and Credibility in International Virtual Teams / Kirk St. Amant, 75
SECTION TWO: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES
6. Producing the Self at the Digital Interface / Natalia Rybas, 93
7. Who Am I in Virtual Space? A Dialectical Approach to Students' Online Identity Expression / Ping Yang, 109
8. New Media and Asymmetry in Cultural Identity Negotiation / Guo-Ming Chen And Xiaodong Dai, 123
9. Negotiating a New Identity Online and Off-Line: The HeartNET Experience / Debbie Rodan, Lynsey Uridge and Lelia Green, 139
10. Inoculating against Invisibility: The Friendly Circle of Cancer Patients' Chinese Blog / Wei Sun and Andrew Jared Critchfield, 155
SECTION THREE: NEGOTIATING COMMUNITY
11. Rite of Death as a Popular Commodity: Neoliberalism, Media, and New Korean Funeral Culture / Joonseong Lee, 175
12. Far Away from Home . . . With a Mobile Phone! Reconnecting and Regenerating the Extended Family in Africa / Gado Alzouma, 193
13. When Indian Women Text Message: Culture, Identity, and Emerging Interpersonal Norms of New Media / Robert Shuter, 209
14. To Browse or Not to Browse: Perceptions of the Danger of the Internet by Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women / Azi Lev-On and Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, 223
15. From the Coffee Table Album to the Mobile Phone: A Portuguese Case Study / Carla Ganito and Catia Ferreira, 237
SECTION FOUR: ENGAGING POLITICS
16. Asian American New Media Communication as Cultural Engagement: E-mail, Vlog/Blogs, Mobile Applications, Social Networks, and YouTube / Konrad Ng, 255
17 Jamaica and Chile Online: Accessing and Using the Internet in a Developing World Context / Nickesia Gordon and Kristin Sorensen, 275
18 Cultural Peculiarities of Russian Audience Participation in Political Discourse in the Era of New Technologies / Irina Privalova, 291
19 The Vienna Unibrennt Platform: Hidden Pitfalls of the Social Web / Herbert Hrachovec, 307
