1st Edition

Culture, Communication and Cyberspace Rethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments

262 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

The increasingly global nature of the World Wide Web presents new challenges and opportunities for technical communicators who must develop content for clients or colleagues from other cultures and in other nations. As international online access grows, technical communicators will encounter a range of challenges related to culture and communication in cyberspace. These challenges include how to... Read more

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

Meet the Contributors
Index

Index

Biography

Kirk St. Amant, Filipp Sapienza, Charles Sides