New Media and Intercultural Communication—Identity, Community and Politics

The scope of this anthology encompasses themes developed at a biennial conference series on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC), the inaugural conference of which was held in 1998 in London; the two organizers of the conference provide the foreword. Nineteen contributions are arranged in sections on theory, constructing identities, negotiating community, and engaging politics. Discussion includes experiences in China, India, Korea, Portugal, Jamaica, Chile, Russia, Austria, and the US, among other countries--with regard to mobile phones, YouTube, students' online identities, texting, and e-learning, among other topics. The three editors are affiliated as follows: Pauline Hope Cheong (U. of Southern California), Judith N. Martin (Pennsylvania State U.), and Leah P. Macfadyen (U. of British Columbia). Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Pauline Hope Cheong (PhD, University of Southern California) is Associate Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University. Her multidisciplinary research focuses on the socio-cultural implications of communication technologies. She has published widely in flagship journals including New Media and Society, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Information, Communication and Society, The Information Society, Journal of Communication and Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
Judith N. Martin (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. She has published numerous research articles in Communication journals as well as other disciplinary journals and has co-authored three textbooks in intercultural communication with Thomas K. Nakayama: Intercultural Communication in Contexts, Experiencing Intercultural Communication, and Readings in Intercultural Communication.
Leah P. Macfadyen (PhD, The University of British Columbia) is a researcher and instructor in the Faculty of Arts at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Most recently, her writing on aspects of culture, identity and online education have appeared in edited collections such as Digital Differences: Perspectives on Online Education (2010) and Learning Cultures in Online Education(2010).