Recent literature on new media and intercultural communication

摘要

As the Internet, along with related network and mobile communication media, continues to spread across the world, we have experienced a greater diversity of social actors who communicate within as well as interact across geolinguistic regions and cultural boundaries. Subsequently, there has seen rising scholarly attention to the issues of culture in relation to new forms of mediated communication. The one special forum and two edited volumes reviewed in this essay are among the first concerted efforts devoted to exploring a range of issues that involve these two of the most intriguing yet complex research subjects in the field of communication.