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Falling through the (cultural) gaps?
No full textIn 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
First Looks: CATaC '98
No full textThe First International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication (CATaC’98), and its affiliated publications, seek to bring together current insights from philosophy, communication theory, and cultural sciences in an interdisciplinary dialogue. The synthesis of disparate scholarly ideas will shed greater light on just how culture impacts on the use and appropriation of new communications technologies. Beyond the individual contributions themselves, some of our most significant insights will emerge as we listen and discuss carefully with one another during the conference itself. As a way of preparing for that discussion, I offer the following overview of the CATaC papers and abstracts, along with a summary of the insights and questions they suggest
Eco's Perspective on Semiotics and Problems Combined with It. Review
No full textProf. Dr. Umberto ECO might be widely and well known as a successful and wonderful novelist. Yet in his publicly underrated profession as a Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna he has gained a profound and respectable reputation
Charles Ess (ed.) (1996), Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication
No full textDruick Zoë. Charles Ess (ed.) (1996), Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. In: Communication. Information Médias Théories, volume 18 n°1, décembre 1997. pp. 165-167
Charles Ess (ed.) (1996), Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication
No full textDruick Zoë. Charles Ess (ed.) (1996), Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. In: Communication. Information Médias Théories, volume 18 n°1, décembre 1997. pp. 165-167
Culture and computer-mediated communication: Toward new understandings
No full textThis collection of articles was originally inspired by several presentations at CATaC'041 and subsequent critical discussion of their use of the frameworks for cultural analyses developed by Edward T. Hall (1966, 1976) and Gert Hofstede (e.g., 1980, 1991). In response to these presentations and discussion, we developed this special thematic section for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
RoMEO Studies 6: Rights metadata for open-archiving
No full textThis is the final study in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving) which investigated the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues relating to academic author self-archiving of research papers. It reports the results of a survey of 542 academic authors showing the level of protection required for their open-access research papers. It then describes the selection of an appropriate means of expressing those rights through metadata and the resulting choice of Creative Commons licences. Finally it outlines proposals for communicating rights metadata via the Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
Margarete Van Ess & Thomas Weber (Ed.), Baalbek im Bann römischer Monumentalarchitektur
No full textBalty Jean-Charles. Margarete Van Ess & Thomas Weber (Ed.), Baalbek im Bann römischer Monumentalarchitektur. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 70, 2001. pp. 551-552
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