1st Edition
Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age
Introduction
Cultural Identity and Activism In Digital Spaces
Margaret U. D’Silva and Ahmet Atay
Part I Intercultural Communication, Online Community, and Identity
Chapter 1
From Pen Pals to ePals: Mediated Intercultural Exchange in a Historical Perspective
Katie Day Good
Chapter 2
Western Media’s Influence on Identity Negotiation in Pre-Asylum ‘Gay’ Men
Nathian Shae Rodriguez
Chapter 3
‘Serving Activist Realness’: The New Drag Superstars and Activism Under Trump
Renee Middlemost
Chapter 4
Brexit and EU Migration in the BBC and CNN: Britishness versus EU Identity
Fathi Bourmeche
Chapter 5
Who am I?, Who are They?: Otherness in the Human Rights Discourse of the United Nations Facebook Pages
Monserrat Fernandez-Vela
Part II Intercultural Communication and Online Social Movements
Chapter 6
Tents, Tweets, and Television: Communicative Ecologies and the No to Military Trials for Civilians Grassroots Campaign in Revolutionary Egypt
Nina Grønlykke Mollerup
Chapter 7
"Unfriending" Is Easy: Intercultural Miscommunication on Social Networks
Olga Baysha
Chapter 8
Analyzing the Women to Drive Campaign on Facebook
Huda Mohsin Alsahi
Chapter 9
"Does This Lab Coat Make Me Look #DistractinglySexy?": A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Feminist Hashtag Campaign
Alex Rister & Jennifer Sandoval
Chapter 10
Papuan Political Resistance on Social Media: Regionalisation and Internationalisation of Papuan Identity
Yuyun W. I Surya
Biography
Margaret U. D'Silva is a Professor of Communication and Director of the Institute for Intercultural Communication at the University of Louisville. She is President (2019-2021) of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies. Widely published, she recently co-edited, with Ahmet Atay, Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age (2019, Routledge).
Ahmet Atay is an Associate Professor at The College of Wooster. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015, Lexington Books) and co-editor of 9 books. He recently co-edited Millennials and Media Ecology: Culture, Pedagogy, and Politics (2019, Routledge), Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age (2019, Routledge), and Examining Millenials Reshaping Organizational Cultures: From Theory to Practice (2018, Lexington Books).
