Provides cross-cultural perspectives on computer-mediated communication.
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.
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"This book provides a well-needed cultural context for computer-mediated communication. It places the Internet and its meaning in the wider area of different countries and cultures, and points out issues of access and attitudes that would otherwise be missed in the current discussions of the Information Revolution." Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon University
"Thoughtful and intelligent...the many examples of how different cultures interact with information technology are stimulating." Thomas L. Jacobson, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
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Provides cross-cultural perspectives on computer-mediated communication.
Foreword vii Susan Herring Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Whats Culture Got to Do with It? Cultural Collisions in the Electronic Global Village, Creative Interferences, and the Rise of Culturally-Mediated Computing 1(52) Charles Ess I. Theoretical Approaches: Postmodernism, Habermas, Luhmann, Hofstede Understanding Micropolis and Compunity 53(14) Steve Jones Electronic Networks and Civil Society: Reflections on Structural Changes in the Public Sphere 67(20) Barbara Becker Josef Wehner National Level Culture and Global Diffusion: The Case of the Internet 87(44) Carleen F. Maitland Johannes M. Bauer II. Theory/Praxis Europe New Kids on the Net: Deutschsprachige Philosophie elektronisch 131(20) Herbert Hrachovec Cultural Attitudes toward Technology and Communication: A Study in the ``Multi-cultural Environment of Switzerland 151(10) Lucienne Rey Gender/Gender and Muslim World Diversity in On-Line Discussions: A Study of Cultural and Gender Differences in Listservs 161(26) Concetta M. Stewart Stella F. Shields Nandini Sen New Technologies, Old Culture: A Look at Women, Gender, and the Internet in Kuwait 187(26) Deborah Wheeler East-West/East Preserving Communication Context: Virtual Workspace and Interpersonal Space in Japanese CSCW 213(28) Lorna Heaton Internet Discourse and the Habitus of Koreas New Generation 241(20) Sunny Yoon ``Culture, Computer Literacy, and the Media in Creating Public Attitudes toward CMC in Japan and Korea 261(22) Robert J. Fouser III. Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences on the (Silk) Road to the Global Village: India and Thailand Language, Power, and Software 283(24) Kenneth Keniston Global Culture, Local Cultures, and the Internet: The Thai Example 307(18) Soraj Hongladarom List of Contributors 325(6) Index 331
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.
