Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age

Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age

Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 362

ISBN13: 9781599042138|ISBN10: 1599042134|EISBN13: 9781599042152|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616927608

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-213-8

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International online access has grown rapidly in recent years with the number of global Internet users skyrocketing. The most astounding growth, however, is taking place in developing nations. Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age provides readers with in-depth information on the various linguistic, cultural, technological, legal, and other factors that affect interactions in online exchanges within the global age. Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age proposes information that implements effective decisions related to the uses and designs of online media when interacting with individuals from other cultures. This comprehensive and informative title is completed by foundational knowledge needed to communicate effectively with individuals from other countries and cultures via online media.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapters

Language, Culture, and Cyberspace

Chapter 1

Internet Multilinguality: Challenges, Dimensions, and Recommendations (pages 1-14)

S. He

In the hay-days of the Internet boom, most software packages used on the Internet were in English, as were most Web sites and search engines. Since 2000, however, there have been more non-English-speaking users than English-speaking...

Chapter 2

Linguistics of Computer-Mediated Communication: Approaching the Metaphor (pages 15-33)

R. Tarsiero

This chapter introduces the embodied metaphor as a means of studying the multifaceted relationship between computer-mediated communication (CMC) and culture. It argues that the embodied metaphor offers a more reliable framework, as...

Chapter 3

Machine Translation as the Future of International Online Communication (pages 34-44)

N. St. Germaine-Madison

American “ownership” of the World Wide Web is on the decline. In fact, two-thirds to three-fourths of Internet users are not native speakers of English. It thus does not require a leap of logic to imagine how many more non-U.S. users...

Chapter 4

Classifying Web Users: A Cultural Value-Based Approach (pages 45-62)

W. Lee

In today’s global environment, a myriad of communication mechanisms enable cultures around the world to interact with one another and form complex interrelationships. The goal of this chapter is to illustrate an individual-based...

Chapter 5

Intercultural Computer-Mediated Communication Between Chinese and U.S. College Students (pages 63-77)

Y. Xia

This study incorporates the effects of culture and computer-mediated communication (CMC) in the investigation of Chinese college students’ use of English in communication with U. S. college students. Ethnography of communication was...

Global Virtual Communities and International Online Collaboration

Chapter 6

Culture and Communication Challenges in Virtual Workspaces (pages 79-92)

B. Olaniran

The issue of globalization is one that contemporary organizations are constantly trying to unravel. However, globalization has brought about or reinvents the concept of workspaces such that work is no longer confined to a traditional...

Chapter 7

The Language of Leaders: Identifying Emergent Leaders in Global Virtual Teams (pages 93-111)

S. Simoff, F. Sudweeks

Virtual teams and their leaders are key players in global organizations. Using teams of workers dispersed temporally and geographically has changed the way people work in groups and redefined the nature of teamwork. Emergent...

Chapter 8

Researching Online Intercultural Dialog in Business: Using Established Methods to Create New Tools (pages 121-122)

P. Brewer

Within a single business day, technical communicators may be challenged to work with colleagues located in a variety of nations. In such interactions, they use several kinds of communication technologies and must constantly adjust in...

Aspects of Online Design in International Environments

Chapter 9

Web Site Analysis Across Cultures: An Inquiry into Intercultural Values and Web Site Design (pages 124-142)

Barry Thatcher

The countries and cultures of the world are becoming much more interdependent. At the same time, the development and use of the World Wide Web has dramatically increased cross-cultural contact in many areas. This growth in...

Chapter 10

Cultural Cognitive Style and the Web: Toward a Theory and Practice of Web Design for International Users (pages 143-159)

A. Faiola, S. Matei

Several technological developments have altered our world in the last half-century. Among these were the new information processing and distribution platforms supported by computer-mediated communication (CMC). In 2005, Forrester...

Chapter 11

Global Internet Usage, Web Site Design, and Cultural Communication Preferences: Contributions from Cross-Cultural Marketing and Advertising Research (pages 160-175)

M. Hermeking

Though the Internet continuously gains much popularity on a global scale, marketing research reveals enormous national differences and disparities in the numbers of Internet users worldwide. To date, most users still live in North...

Governance and Legal Factors in Global Cyberspace

Chapter 12

Global Governance and the Local Internet (pages 177-201)

Y. Ibrahim

The Internet is often thought of as a unified technology that transcends traditional geopolitical boundaries. For this reason, early discussions of the Internet often advocated the idea that nation states would have either limited or...

Chapter 13

Web Sites and the Law: An Avenue for Localization (pages 202-213)

K. Kelly, J. Jones

By adhering to cultural expectations, a Web site can build ethos with an intercultural audience. Those who create successful intercultural Web sites and Web site content must understand the laws and legal systems of the target...

Chapter 14

A Frame Analysis of Privacy Regulation in an International Arena: Understanding Interdependency in a Globalized World (pages 214-237)

V. Agarwal

The conceptualization of privacy has been the subject of much debate for more than a century in scholar-ship ranging from social philosophy and sociology to law, finance, and medicine. Legal issues concerning the right to privacy...

International Aspects of Online Education

Chapter 15

Cyberspace and Online Education: The Influences of Global Cyberculture on International Students (pages 239-252)

C. Wang

Friedman (2005) argues that the rapid growth of Internet technology is fundamentally changing human life in modern societies. This Internet revolution is also having an impact on higher education in the United States. More than half...

Chapter 16

Teaching, Learning, Negotiating: The World Wide Web as a Model for Successful Cross-Cultural Communication (pages 253-275)

T. Chorney

New technologies and computer-mediated communication (CMC) in general seem inherently suited to result in constructive cross-cultural communication. Yet researchers note that students and teachers, both of whom are instructional...

Chapter 17

E-Learning and the Global Workforce: Social and Cultural Implications for Workplace Adult Education and Training (pages 276-305)

K. Remtulla

Workplaces are transforming in the global age. Jobs are expanding and varying. Workers are more and more participating in a global workforce comprising people who are socially and demographically diverse, multicultural, multifaceted...

Chapter 18

The Impact of Sociocultural Factors in Multicultural Communication Environments: A Case Example from an Australian University's Provision of Distance Education in the Global Classroom (pages 306-327)

A. Ragusa

Changes in the availability and quality of communication technology have revolutionized, and fundamentally altered, learning environments. As citizens of the “Information Age,” the breadth and impact of global communication are...

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