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From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally Aware ICT Usage and Design

From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally Aware ICT Usage and Design

Charles Ess
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781599040967|ISBN10: 1599040964|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781599040974|EISBN13: 9781599040981
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-096-7.ch008
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Ess, Charles. "From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally Aware ICT Usage and Design." Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research, Trends and Opportunities, edited by Sri Kurniawan and Panayiotis Zaphiris, IGI Global, 2007, pp. 178-197. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-096-7.ch008

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Ess, C. (2007). From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally Aware ICT Usage and Design. In S. Kurniawan & P. Zaphiris (Eds.), Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research, Trends and Opportunities (pp. 178-197). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-096-7.ch008

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Ess, Charles. "From Computer-Mediated Colonization to Culturally Aware ICT Usage and Design." In Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation: Research, Trends and Opportunities, edited by Sri Kurniawan and Panayiotis Zaphiris, 178-197. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2007. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-096-7.ch008

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Abstract

A number of examples demonstrate that technologies of computer-mediated communication (CMC) embed and foster specific cultural values and communicative preferences. Differences between the values and preferences embedded in CMC and those of a given cultural group thereby lead to communication failures. Hofstede’s and Hall’s theories partially explain these failures and, by contrast, examples of successful online cross-cultural communication via CMC designed to incorporate important cultural and communicative differences.

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