Communicating with the ‘uncultured’: the study of conventional norms in Indonesian intercultural communication context

ABSTRACT. Studying in a foreign country provides an opportunity for students from diverse cultural backgrounds to develop an intercultural friendship between each other. In today’s increasingly digitalized society, the use of social media cannot be detached from any communication context, including intercultural communication. Previous studies have examined the use of social media in various settings of intercultural communication. This study aims to examine the use of social media in intercultural friendship development among foreign students in Kocaeli University, Turkey. Applying qualitative method, six foreign students who represent four different cultural backgrounds were interviewed in this study. The interview tried to explore their subjective experiences of using social media to develop an intercultural friendship with other foreign students in their surroundings. The study reveals various similarities and differences of the pattern, evaluation, and impact of using social media in intercultural friendship development. The study concludes that the use of social media tends to enhance the intercultural friendship development.

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lnfotainment:Cultural Hypertext Of Double Virtuality

10.28945/2354 ◽

2001 ◽

Author(s):

Arunas Augustinaitis

Keyword(s):

Intercultural Communication ◽

Traditional Culture ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Main Question ◽

Contemporary Culture ◽

Cultural Diffusion ◽

Communication Context ◽

Radical Transformation

The main question of this analysis is a character of mechanism of increasingly netted culture as an intercultural communication context. The shift of culture is related with tendencies of post-modernity and globalization. In fact the contemporary culture is lying on another paradigm, which has a different structure and consecution from traditional culture.” Double virtuality” and infotainment are the hegemonic characteristics of current cross-cultural communicating. The netted culture implies new forms of information representations and dynamic orientations of intercultural actions. There are the consequences of trans-informationality and cultural diffusion, which are internal processes of postmodern culture. We assume the radical transformation of idiosyncrasy of intercultural communication.

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Intercultural Communication: Context and Meaning : учебное пособие / С.С. Грецкая. – М.: «КДУ», «Университетская книга», 2021. – 162 с.

10.31453/kdu.ru.91304.0163 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

С.С. Грецкая

Keyword(s):

Intercultural Communication ◽

Communication Context

«Intercultural Communication: Context and Meaning» – учебное пособие, адресованное студентам, обучающимся по программам бакалавриата, специалитета и магистратуры. Пособие разработано в соответствии с учебной программой дисциплины «Практикум по межкультурной коммуникации», соответствует актуальным требованиям ФГОС 3++ по направлению подго-товки «Лингвистика» (45.03.02), а также ОС МГУ для реализуемых основных профессиональных образовательных программ высшего образования по соответствующему направлению подготовки. Учебное пособие «Intercultural Communication: Context and Meaning» спроектировано в соответствии с принципами ориентированного на создание проблемной научно-образовательной среды компетентностного подхода к профессиональной подготовке студентов, обучающихся по направлению «Лингвистика», профиль «Теория и практика межкультурной коммуникации». Вместе с тем материалы могут быть использованы в процессе межкультурной подготовки широкого круга студентов-гуманитариев с целью изучения влияния контекста на внутри- и межкультурную коммуникацию и проблем оптимизации межкультурного взаимодействия в современном мире.

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