Media and intercultural communication: identity, community, and politics

Abstract

This book addresses core issues, current approaches, and possible future directions regarding the varied intersections between new media and culture by integrating different perspectives from information management, anthropology, philosophy, media and cultural studies, global and international studies, and communication. The editors of this book, Cheong, Martin, and Macfadyen, present 18 articles to highlight the importance of culture in the design, implementation and use of information, and communication technologies; the roles of new media in modifying and creating cultural contexts and systems; and the effects of mediated intercultural communication on individual’s identity, interpersonal communication, group interactions, online and offline relationships.