Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village (Suny Series in Computer-Mediated Communication) [Paperback]

Charles Ess (Editor), Fay Sudweeks (Series Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0791450163 | ISBN-13: 978-0791450161 | Publication Date: June 7, 2001

Provides cross-cultural perspectives on computer-mediated communication.

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From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

Charles Ess is Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University, and editor of Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication, also published by SUNY Press. Fay Sudweeks is Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at Murdoch University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 370 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (June 7, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791450163
• ISBN-13: 978-0791450161
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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