The following is an article about how ESL (English as a Second Language) students--most participants were Asian--in some U.S. colleges have interacted with American tutors on the Internet in comparison to their offline interactions: Freiermuth, M.R. (2001). Native speakers or non-native speakers: Who has the floor? Online and face-to-face interaction in culturally mixed small groups. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 14, 169-199. And as far as Charles Ess' "Culture, Technology, Communication" is concerned, it seems to be more about computer-mediated communication at specific cultures only (non-western) than intercultural communication. For instance, one chapter that is listed under the category of "East-West/East" is about the recent arrival of computer-mediated communication and its social impacts on young Korean generation, rather than about how those from Korean culture inter-communicated with those from another culture over the Internet. The actual portion of intercultural computer-mediated communication in the book isn't much as it sounds from the title: "Towards an Intercultural Global Village." However, I think the book is still valuable because it still provides perspectives that are "less western" or "the other side of the story." Personally, I would be interested in hearing more about your research--if that is the intention of finding sources for intercultural communication mediated over the Internet. Han
Hello,
I was wondering if anybody knows of any prior research / literature about intercultural communication mediated over the internet or other electronic media, in specific between the west and asia.
i came across the following:
Ma, Ringo, �Computer-Mediated Conversations as a New Dimension of Intercultural Communication between East Asian and North American College Students,�" in Susan C. Herring (ed.), Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. pp.173-185.
regards, Lokman Tsui National Taiwan University / Leiden University
===== Original Message From "David Palfreyman" <David.Palfreyman@zu.ac.ae> ===== Re Charles's post, the URL of CATAC '02 is http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/. As I remember, the proceedings of CATAC '98 focused on macro issues of information systems and national cultures. Personally, I would look forward at the CATAC '02 to more focus on particular intercultural interactions and the part which culture and online communication play in them - which I think was more what Lokman Tsui was asking about...? As far as I know there is a lack of research in this area. The only possibly relevant reference I can offer I think is Ebrahim, ZT (2001) Are Pakistani Women on the Road to Information Technology? Retrieved 10 February 2002 from http://www.dawn.com/events/infotech/it16.htm.
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