New Media and Intercultural Communication: Identity, Community and Politics

摘要

In New Media and Intercultural Communication edited by Cheong, Martin and Macfayden, intercultural communication scholars investigate the complex and dynamic relationship between technology and culture, or what they coined "mediated intercultural dialectics" (p. 5). The relationship between technology and culture foregrounds change, necessitating research that describes the contradictions intrinsic to sociotechnological practices and blurs the boundaries between online and offline as discrete spheres of reality. Yang's chapter on online identity expression illustrates this complexity. She describes a number of dialectic contradictions negotiated by Web users, such as authenticity/anonymity, stability/fluidity, and trust/ suspicion.