Tsui, I have some data that I accumulated as I assisted an International grad student seminar in 1996 (Do a Google on "dj50"). The seminar was run from the University of Duisburg and Keio University in Tokyo with English as the language of dialog. Part of the seminar used a web-based annotation tool to comment publically on sections of the text of position papers. The only interesting finding was that the students in Japan did not make a single annotation while the students in Germany made about 50. Clearly there was some culturally based reluctance to criticize in public. Lokman Tsui wrote:
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
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