Culture, Communication and Cyberspace: Rethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments (Hardcover)

Culture, Cyberspace, and the New Challenges for Technical Communicators Kirk St.Amant

SECTION I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION IN CYBERSPACE

CHAPTER 1
Using Global Contexts to Localize Online Content for International Audiences R. Peter Hunsinger

CHAPTER 2
Making the User the Localization Expert: Employing User-Customization Strategies in Globalizing Online Content Clinton R. Lanier

CHAPTER 3
Optimizing International Information Systems Matthew McCool

CHAPTER 4
Cyberspace, International Intellectual Property Law, and Rhetoric Martine Courant Rife

SECTION II: ONLINE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CULTURES

CHAPTER 5
Pleasure in Naming All the Parts of the Known in Their Expected Order: How Traditional Chinese Agrarian Culture Influences Modern Chinese Cyberspace Communication Daniel D. Ding

CHAPTER 6
What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate: How Cultural Factors Affect Online Communication Between East and West Carol M. Barnum

CHAPTER 7
Meeting Each Other Online: Corpus-Based Insights on Preparing Professional Writers for International Settings Boyd Davis, Tsui-ping Chen, Hui-fang Peng, and Paul Blewchamp

SECTION III: CROSS-CULTURAL COLLABORATIONS AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

CHAPTER 8
Virtual Design Studio: Facilitating Online Learning and Communication Between U.S. and Kenyan Participants Audrey Bennett, Ron Eglash, and Mukkai Krishnamoorthy

CHAPTER 9
Cultural Adaptation of Cybereducation Judith B. Strother

CHAPTER 10
Digital Ecologies: Observations of Intercultural Interactions in Learning Management Systems Sipai Klein and Sharon Trujillo Lalla

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