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Overview

1. Culture, technology, and communication – review and update

CATaC  conferences 1998, 2000: CMC and Culture

CATaC 2002, special issue on CMC and the Middle East, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 8, issue 2, 2003, <http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/>).  

2. Summary of Insights, Developments

 Current question: How far may CMC technologies foster and/or hinder cross-cultural communication - especially if we distinguish between

the more prevailing, utilitarian, business-oriented models (“user as consumers”) and

more humanistic models of the purposes and techniques of such communication.