Colleagues: If you're interested in issues of cross- and inter-cultural communication online, you're invited to review the materials I prepared for a just-completed Master's course at IT-University, Copenhagen, "Cultural Homogeneity / Hybridity / Diversity Online": http://www.itu.dk/~chess/IRCulture/CourseStructure.html This is the course description - which is further linked to the course outline and annotated bibliography. I'm hoping to soon add a couple of the student projects completed for the course - they proved to be extremely interesting and highly practical analyses of these topics as focused on (a) how MacDonald's sites vary around the world, apparently in efforts to meet the communicative preferences of diverse cultures (especially as viewed through Hall's distinction between high content-low context and high context-low content cultures) and (b) a Danish website oriented towards helping minority communities here, with a critical analysis of how far the website appears to succeed in addressing diverse communities with diverse communication preferences. Comments and suggestions welcome! And happy holidays - Charles EssVisiting Professor (fall, '03) Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC) The IT University of Copenhagen Glentevej 67 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Telephone: +45 38 16 89 63 Mobile: +45 22 46 06 35 Fascimile: +45 38 16 88 99 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA voice: 417-873-7230 fax: 417-873-7435 homepage: <www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html> Co-chair, CATaC '04: <it.murdoch.edu.au/catac>