Is It A Small World After All?

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-64
Author(s):  
Lifen Cheng ◽  
Maria Eugenia González
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Small World ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Intercultural Communication Competence ◽  
Intercultural Competencies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Significant Regression

The use of computer-mediated communication has led researchers to contradictory argumentations on information and communication technology (ICT) influences on users' engagement in their societal concern. The present study was focused on exploring the intercultural communication competence in terms of developmental model of intercultural sensitivity in netizens among Spanish college students. For this purpose, a pilot study was given to 64 volunteered respondents in order to assess comprehensiveness of a survey questionnaire dealing with popular conceptions of intercultural competence. After some minor adjustment and refinement, the improved questionnaire was used as instrument for research in which 398 university student participants were recruited to participate. Finding data were used to map the way the participants' intercultural competencies are positioned. Moreover, some significant regression coefficient outcomes were fitted into models in attempt to examine direct and indirect effect produced on internet ICT users' intercultural competence produced by the prediction and mediation variables considered for analysis in the present research.

Collaborative Knowledge Construction with Web Video Conferencing

2010 ◽  
pp. 85-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stylianos Hatzipanagos ◽  
Anthony Basiel ◽  
Annette Fillery-Travis
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge Construction

This chapter explores how web-based video conferencing (WVC) can be used to create and support learning environments within a work based learning context. Computer mediated communication interactions through WVC can support collaborative knowledge construction by encouraging dialogical processes in communities of learners and practitioners. We position our field of exploration within the educational landscape defined by socio-economic changes, resulting from the development of the knowledge economy, and the explosive growth of information and communication technologies to serve it.

Universal Information Ethics? Ethical Pluralism and Social Justice

2011 ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Ess
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Ethical Pluralism ◽  
Diffusion Of Information ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Information And Communication

The explosive, global diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and computer-mediated communication (CMC) confronts us with the need for an information ethics that can resolve ethical problems evoked by ICTs and CMC in ways that provide shared, perhaps (quasi-)universal responses. At the same time, however, in the name of a transcultural social justice that preserves diverse cultural identities, such an ethics must also reflect and sustain local values, approaches, and traditions. Important ethical claims from both within Western and between Eastern and Western cultures exemplify an ethical pluralism that is able to meet these requirements as this pluralism represents important ethical differences as issuing from diverse judgments and applications of shared ethical norms.

scholarly journals Ethno-National Attitudes as Intercultural Competence Predictors in University Students: Gender Differences

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina A. Novikova ◽  
Marina V. Gridunova ◽  
Alexey L. Novikov ◽  
Dmitriy A. Shlyakhta
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
University Education ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
R Software ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
National Attitudes

The search for predictors of intercultural competence (ICC) development is one of the important challenges of modern psychology in connection with globalization in all the spheres of modern life, including university education. The purpose of the present research is to show that the ethno-national attitudes (ENA), which Khukhlaev et al. consider as an individual’s predisposition to assess the nationality/ethnicity can determine the severity of ICC features in male and female university students. The sample includes 219 (75% female) first–third year Russian university students. ICC was measured with the author’s modification of the intercultural sensitivity scale (ISS) by Khuhlaev and Chibisova. ISS is based on the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity, (DMIS) by Bennett and includes 4 subscales: Minimization, Absolutization, Ambivalence, Acceptance. ENA (Nationalistic, Patriotic, Neutral, Negativistic) were determined with the “Scale of ethno-national attitudes” by Khukhlaev, Kuznetsov, and Tkachenko. Descriptive statistics methods, Wilcoxon W-test, and multiple regression analysis were used for statistical analysis in the R software environment, version 3.5.2. The findings of our research showed that Nationalistic and Patriotic ENA are the strongest predictors of studied ICC scales and have an opposite negative impact on Acceptance and Absolutization in both male and female students. This fact should be taken into account in the context of ICC developments.

scholarly journals Computer mediated communication in a context of modern organization: a scoping review

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gedas Baranauskas
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Information And Communication

Purpose - The present article aims to reveal and summarize key points of the application of information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet technology in the context of modern organization communication, related management processes. Design/methodology/approach - methods of meta-analysis, comparative analysis and systemizing-synthesis are used in this article. A scoping review methodology was chosen as dominant for the research with the purpose of assessing key points in the context of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) usage in modern organizations. The research is based on a qualitative paradigm. Findings – Results of the scoping review suggest that ICT and CMC are compatible and can be successfully applicable to solve the main challenges in management and control contexts of inter-organizational, organizational, group (team) and inter-personal communication and related processes. In addition, this new combination of management methods and technological innovations has a great impact on opinion and behavior of customers and overall society, process improvement in business organizations, and change management. Research limitations/implications - Firstly, a limited scope of organizations especially in Public and Non-governmental sector use CMC in everyday duties. Nevertheless, a usage of ICT and CMC requires not only the understanding of the theoretical background but also strict practical implication guidelines as well as measurement and evaluation indicators, targets, and an overall model for analyzing. Since this article is based on the scoping review where main findings and conclusions are outlined from a meta-analysis, case studies and comparative analysis towards a practical implication are not sufficiently elaborated. The second limitation which can also be called a future implication might be a wide scope and content of the CMC concept as well as the dynamics of the communication process in organizations, increasing demand from business organizations. Practical implications -The research may serve as a starting point to a further scientific discussion regarding the usage ICT and CMC both separately and as a part of other hybrid project and process methods, optimization and continuous improvement of communication, learning, control and other related processes and systems in organization management. Originality/Value - The main value of the presented article can be described as underlying spheres where CMC has the major impact in management of modern organizations: it takes effect in a wide field of internal and external processes as well as in overall process optimization activities and change management. Keywords: Computer Mediated Communication (CMC); organization management; information and communication technology (ICT); Human Resource Management (HRM); leadership; technostress; online learning. Research type: literature review. JEL classification: M15- IT Management, D83 - Information and Knowledge, Communication.

scholarly journals The Photo Narrative Process: Students’ Intercultural Learning in Agriculture

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
Emily Bost ◽  
Gary Wingenbach
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Intercultural Learning ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Perspective Change ◽  
Narrative Process

Cultural heritage describes our way of life. It comes from previous generational traditions and incorporates our current constructed and natural environments, and tangible artifacts. The photo narrative process, derived from photovoice, combines photography and narrative expression about artifacts important to one’s way of life. The purpose of this study was to explore effects of the photo narrative process on students’ intercultural learning in agriculture. Photo narrative assignments were developed for students to capture facets of their cultural heritage, and their host countries’ cultural heritage from three separate study abroad programs. Archival data were collected (i.e., course assignments to illustrate one’s cultural heritage via photo and text) and visual social semiotics were used to analyze data. The Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity provided context for students’ levels of intercultural competence. The results showed participants experienced frame shifts (i.e., perspective change in worldviews) from ethnocentrism to ethnorelativism, as evidenced in the rhetoric of their artifacts after participating in the photo narrative process. The photo narrative process is a valuable educational technique; its purposeful use helps learners experience and progress through the stages of intercultural competence. Photo narrative takes advantage of young people’s preferred communication methods (i.e., social media), combining image and text, which empowers them through expressive communication and reflection. Purposeful photo narrative processes may be adapted to help learners explore perspective shifts in racism, classism, or religion to increase understanding and empathetic response between dissimilar groups.

scholarly journals Building Intercultural Competence Through Intercultural Competency Certification Of Undergraduate Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Maria G. Fabregas Janeiro ◽  
Ricardo Lopez Fabre ◽  
Jose Pablo Nuno de la Parra
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Initial Level ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Intercultural Development ◽  
Intercultural Development Inventory ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
Intercultural Competency ◽  
Travel Abroad

The Intercultural Competency Certificate (CCI in Spanish) designed for the Universidad Popular Automa del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP University) is a theory based comprehensive plan to develop undergraduate students intercultural competence. This Certificate is based in the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) developed by Milton Bennett (1993) and will be assessed by the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) v.3 developed by Bennett & Hammer (Hammer, 2009; Hammer, Bennett, & Wiseman, 2003). The main purpose of the Intercultural Competency Certificate is to develop students intercultural competence at least to the acceptance level of the DMIS continuum. To achieve this goal, the students will have to develop of necessary knowledge, skill and attitudes (Deardorff, 2006). This Certificate proposes to develop attitudes, knowledge and skills through certain activities as learning a new language, take international classes, reflect about intercultural differences, interact with people from other cultures, travel abroad and receive coaching by a professional who will guide them through tailor-make experiences according to the initial level of intercultural competence, measured by the IDI v.3 at the beginning of the Certification.

Virtual Communities' Impact on Politics

2011 ◽  
pp. 506-510
Author(s):  
Vasanthi Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Political Communities

Virtual community (VC) as a concept and reality poses some fundamental challenges to the discipline of politics. First, the term virtual undermines the appearance–reality distinction that runs through Western political thought. From Plato to Marx, political thinkers have decried the cunning with which politicians peddle mere appearances of justice or freedom. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) described as virtual defies this dichotomy between appearance and reality; the virtual is that which appears on the screen and yet is experienced as real and sometimes as more real than real. Live images and opinions from all over the globe, mediated through information and communication technologies shape our experience of politics so much so that what happens outside this media space is regarded as marginal (Castells, 1997, p. 312). Similarly, the communal aspect of VC undermines conventional political communities grounded in territorial unity. In this article, we shall clarify the challenges and opportunities posed by VCs to states and civil societies. For this purpose, only some VCs that explicitly address diasporic nationalisms, globalization, democratization, and transnational activism are relevant. How do such communities extend, modify, or subvert existing political ideas and institutions embodied in the nation, state, democracy, public sphere, and so forth? What are the new rights and virtues that come into play through VCs?

Navigating choppy discourses: A conceptual framework for understanding synchronous text-based computer-mediated communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-193
Author(s):  
Janaina Minelli de Oliveira ◽  
Vanessa Esteve-González
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Common View ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Information And Communication

AbstractThis paper presents an investigation into patterns of interaction in synchronous, text-based computer-mediated communication (SCMC) with a focus on participation. The data constitute a corpus of 3,785 words from a series of interactions between student teachers performing learning activities in a three-dimensional online environment. Drawing on a systemic functional grammar perspective of language, we aim to develop a conceptual framework for understanding participation as made up of interactional patterns in students’ linguistic exchanges while performing learning activities. Our findings show that verbal negotiation that creates a shared understanding of what the group should accomplish or a common view of how to perform the activity is more frequent than strict activity organization. We argue that there are features of CMC signaling higher levels of complexity than those ordinarily found in face to face or written communication. The three broad interactional features identified – blending, turn-taking collaboration and delay endurance – corroborate our claim. This paper presents evidence that participation in text-based SCMC with learning purposes demands a disposition for collaboration and solidarity, a capacity to endure delay, and the ability to manage a conglomerate of information and communication tools without instructions on how-to processes.

scholarly journals Coping in the final frontier: An intervention to reduce spaceflight-induced stress

Psychologica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Lucas Monzani ◽  
Malgorzata Kozusznik ◽  
Pilar Ripoll ◽  
Rolf Van Dick ◽  
José M. Peiró
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Low Earth Orbit ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Human Spaceflight ◽  
Intercultural Competencies ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Stress Coping Strategies ◽  
Manned Space

Research in human spaceflight has extensively documented how microgravity environments, such as spaceflight across Low Earth Orbit (LEO), affects astronauts’ and Spaceflight Participants’ emotions. However, a more refined understanding of this topic will become especially relevant as national and international space agencies increase the duration of manned space missions, and as the private sector fully enters the aerospace arena. In this paper, we analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the four main types of interventions for dealing with the stressors associated with human spaceflight (i.e., ergonomic, physiological, psychological, and psychosocial), and then elaborate on a psychosocial intervention grounded on evidence-based interventions across several fields of psychological research. Among the components of such interventions, we recommend adopting advanced stress coping strategies, developing emotional and intercultural competencies and crafting a shared social identity among crew members. Our proposed intervention aims to enhance the efficacy of social support as a key coping mechanism and applies to crewmembers and spaceflight participants of diverse cultural backgrounds who, most likely, will work using computer-mediated communication (CMC).

scholarly journals Intercultural Competence and Study Abroad Programs-A Mixed Method Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Liqin Tang ◽  
John Matt ◽  
Patty Kero
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Significant Difference

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate the intercultural competence (IC) level of college students, explore whether there is a statistically significant difference in the IC level between students with study abroad (SA) experience and those without SA experience, and examine their attitudes, ideas and experiences about SA programs and intercultural communication. Data collected from online questionnaires and Zoom interviews were examined through the lens of Hall’s the Iceberg Analogy of Culture and M. J. Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS), which were also used as the conceptual framework in this study. Both quantitative and qualitative results indicated the IC level of college students was high, reaching up to the acceptance stage or/and adaptation stage of Bennett’s DMIS. Quantitative study showed that the IC level of students who participated in SA programs was higher than those who didn’t.

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