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Falling Through the Cultural Gaps? Intercultural communication challenges in cyberspace. Reeder, Kenneth; Macfadyen, Leah P.; Chase, Mackie; Roche, Jörg
Abstract
In this paper we report findings of a study of online participation by culturally diverse participants in a distance adult education course offered in Canada, and examine two of the study’s early findings. First, we explore both the historical and cultural origins of “cyberculture values” as manifested in our findings, using the notions of explicit and implicit enforcement of those values. Second, we examine the notion of “cultural gaps” between participants in the course and the potential consequences for online communication successes and difficulties. We also discuss theoretical perspectives from Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Genre and Literacy Theory and Aboriginal Education that may shed further light on “cultural gaps” in online communications. Finally, we identify the need for additional research, primarily in the form of larger scale comparisons across cultural groups of patterns of participation and interaction, but also in the form of case studies that can be submitted to microanalyses of the form as well as the content of communicator’s participation and interaction online.
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Falling Through the Cultural Gaps? Intercultural communication challenges in cyberspace.
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2004
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In this paper we report findings of a study of online participation by
culturally diverse participants in a distance adult education course offered in
Canada, and examine two of the study’s early findings. First, we explore both the
historical and cultural origins of “cyberculture values” as manifested in our
findings, using the notions of explicit and implicit enforcement of those values.
Second, we examine the notion of “cultural gaps” between participants in the
course and the potential consequences for online communication successes and
difficulties. We also discuss theoretical perspectives from Sociolinguistics,
Applied Linguistics, Genre and Literacy Theory and Aboriginal Education that
may shed further light on “cultural gaps” in online communications. Finally, we
identify the need for additional research, primarily in the form of larger scale
comparisons across cultural groups of patterns of participation and interaction, but
also in the form of case studies that can be submitted to microanalyses of the form
as well as the content of communicator’s participation and interaction online.
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eng
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2008-08-09
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0058430
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Proceedings, Cultural Attitudes to technology and Communication, Karlstad, Sweden, June 2004
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Reviewed
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Faculty; Researcher
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