Margaret U. D’Silva and Ahmet Atay (Eds.), Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age

Abstract:

In a digital age, mediated information exchanges among people of different cultures involve complex cultural information transfers. Although individuals and organizations are constructing, performing, and expressing cultural identities through digital communication platforms and social media, estranged from each other for political, religious, and other reasons, online communicators may engage in inconsiderate and divisive discourse, disrupting communities and creating cultural cleavages (Baysha, 2018). The book Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age, edited by Margaret U. D’Silva and Ahmet Atay, critically examines the complex and multidimensional relationship between social media and intercultural communication with specific attention paid to identity issues and social movements in a globalized world. It contributes not only to analyzing how social media exchanges allow members of traditionally oppressed groups find their voices, cultivate communities, and construct their cultural identities in multiple ways, but also to providing interdisciplinary philosophy perspective of media and new media studies, critical intercultural communication, and academics studying social identity and social movements. This volume can function as a guidebook for scholars and students who are working in the fields of media and new media studies and intercultural communication. This volume provides readers with an introduction and two parts that include 10 chapters. The introduction gives an overview of the purpose for analyzing how social media simultaneously facilitates a vibrant public sphere and creates …

Año de publicación:

2020

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