Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age
This book examines the complex and multidimensional relationship between culture and social media, and its specific impact on issues of identity and social movements, in a globalized world.
Contemporary cyber-culture involves communication among people who are culturally, nationally, and linguistically similar or radically different. Social media becomes a space for mediated cultural information transfer which can either facilitate a vibrant public sphere or create cultural and social cleavages. Contributors of the book come from diverse cultural backgrounds to provide a comprehensive analysis of how these social media exchanges allow members of traditionally oppressed groups find their voices, cultivate communities, and construct their cultural identities in multiple ways.
This book will be of great relevance to scholars and students working in the field of media and new media studies, intercultural communication, especially critical intercultural communication, and academics studying social identity and social movements.
Margaret U. DSilva is a professor of communication and Director of the Institute for Intercultural Communication at the University of Louisville. She is President (20192021) 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 Globalizations Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015, Lexington Books) and co-editor of nine 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 Millennials Reshaping Organizational Cultures: From Theory to Practice (2018, Lexington Books).
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Contents
MARGARET U. DSILVA AND AHMET ATAY
PART I
Intercultural Communication, Online Community, and Identity
KATIE DAY GOOD
NATHIAN SHAE RODRIGUEZ
RENEE MIDDLEMOST
FATHI BOURMECHE
MONSERRAT FERNNDEZ-VELA
PART II
Intercultural Communication and Online Social Movements
NINA GRNLYKKE MOLLERUP
OLGA BAYSHA
HUDA MOHSIN ALSAHI
ALEX RISTER AND JENNIFER SANDOVAL
YUYUN W. I. SURYA
Guide
Huda Mohsin Alsahi is a final year PhD student in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy, under the supervision of Professor Donatella Della Porta. Her research interests include the intersection of gender and politics in the Arab Gulf States and the political use of information and communication technologies. She has been a visiting scholar at the department of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the winner of the 2017 Graduate Paper Prize from the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS). Moreover, she had written several articles about the status of gender in the Arab Gulf States that appeared in the Journal of Arabian Studies and the publications of Istituto Affari Internazionali, among others.
Dr. Ahmet Atay (PhD, Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale) is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster. His research revolves around cultural studies, media studies, and critical intercultural communication. In particular, he focuses on diasporic experiences and cultural identity formations of diasporic individuals; political and social complexities of city life, such as immigrant and queer experiences; the usage of new media technologies in different settings; and the notion of home. He is the author of Globalizations Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of nine books. His scholarship appeared in number of journals and edited books.
Dr. Olga Baysha (PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder) is an assistant professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, the Russian Federation). Her research centers mainly on political and cultural aspects of globalization with an emphasis on new media and global social movements for justice and democratization. Dr. Baysha is especially interested in analyzing inherent anti-democratic tendencies of the discourses of westernization employed by post-Soviet social movements. Dr. Baysha is the author of two books: The Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project (Lexington, 2014) and Miscommunicating Social Change: Lessons from Russia and Urkaine (Lexington, 2018).
Dr. Fathi Bourmeche (PhD, University of Sfax, Tunisia) is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Sfax. His research and teaching interests touch upon various aspects in cultural studies, focusing on the major themes affecting the changing nature of different societies, including media, ethnicity, politics and elections. He is also interested in studying recent migration trends and their impact on host societies, with particular attention to the American and British contexts. Dr. Bourmeche has recently published The Falklands War: An Analysis of Prime Minister Margaret Thatchers War Speeches; Eastern Europeans in British newspapers from 2004 to 2007: New others in British multicultural society; and Eastern Europeans in British press from 2004 to 2014 .
