Hi all, I'm looking into literature in CMC and HCI - inspired by CATaC colleagues and 2008 presentations by José Abdelnour-Nocera, Lorna Heaton, Leah Macfadyen, and Marie-Christine Deyrich & Nada Matas-Runquist on the manifold limitations of older models for cultural analysis (read: Hall and Hofstede) and suggestions for new directions. Jose and his colleagues - along with many others, including Charlotte Gunawardena and her colleagues (also in a 2008 CATaC paper, A Cross-cultural study of identity and face negotiation in visually anonymous online chat, in F. Sudweeks, H. Hrachovec and C. Ess (eds). Proceedings Cultural Attitudes Towards Communication and Technology 2008, Murdoch University, Australia, 525-539) - refer to the 1998 article, Ting-Toomey, Stella and Kurogi, Atsuko, Facework Competence in Intercultural Conflict: an Updated Face-Negotiation Theory. Intercultural Relations, Vol. 11, No. 1: pp. 76-114. All of which is terrific and incredibly useful - in part as Gunawardena et al further take up a notion of idioculture that seems to more accurately describe online 'cultures' while not entirely abandoning whatever more general claims might be made about 'culture' in a broader, especially national-linguistic sense. My question: is there more recent work on face and face negotiation - perhaps by Ting-Toomy and/or those following in her (criticizing her?) footsteps - that seems especially pertinent / applicable to the various venues of CMC? Thanks in advance for any tips and suggestions! - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23