Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Mediated Intercultural Communication Matters: Understanding New Media, Dialectics, and Social Change / Pauline Hope Cheong, Judith N. Martin, and Leah P. Macfadyen -- Designing for Culture: An Ecological Perspective on Indigenous Knowledge and Database Design / Maja van der Velden -- A Structurational Interaction Approach to Investigating Culture, Identity, and Mediated Communication / Beth Bonniwell Haslett -- Exploring Cultural Challenges in E-Learning / Bolanle A. Olaniran -- Culture, Context, and Cyberspace: Rethinking Identity and Credibility in International Virtual Teams / Kirk St.Amant -- Producing the Self at the Digital Interface / Natalia Rybas -- Who Am I in Virtual Space? A Dialectical Approach to Students' Online Identity Expression / Ping Yang -- New Media and Asymmetry in Cultural Identity Negotiation / Guo-Ming Chen and Xiaodong Dai -- Negotiating a New Identity Online and Off-Line: The HeartNET Experience / Debbie Rodan, Lynsey Uridge, and Lelia Green -- Inoculating against Invisibility: The Friendly Circle of Cancer Patients' Chinese Blog / Wei Sun and Andrew Jared Critchfield -- Rite of Death as a Popular Commodity: Neoliberalism, Media, and New Korean Funeral Culture / Joonseong Lee -- Far Away from Home--With a Mobile Phone! Reconnecting and Regenerating the Extended Family in Africa / Gado Alzouma -- When Indian Women Text Message: Culture, Identity, and Emerging Interpersonal Norms of New Media / Robert Shuter -- To Browse or Not to Browse: Perceptions of the Danger of the Internet by Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women / Azi Lev-On and Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar -- From the Coffee Table Album to the Mobile Phone: A Portuguese Case Study / Carla Ganito and Cátia Ferreira -- Asian American New Media Communication as Cultural Engagement: E-mail, Vlog/Blogs, Mobile Applications, Social Networks, and YouTube / Konrad Ng -- Jamaica and Chile Online: Accessing and Using the Internet in a Developing World Context / Nickesia Gordon and Kristin Sorensen -- Cultural Peculiarities of Russian Audience Participation in Political Discourse in the Era of New Technologies / Irina Privalova -- The Vienna Unibrennt Platform: Hidden Pitfalls of the Social Web / Herbert Hrachovec.

There is increasing awareness of the development of newer smart and more interactive media, at precipitate speed, in many parts of the world. The concept of change-as opposed to continuity-is central to the increasing interest in digital media. However, this focus has not yet been matched by substantive theoretical discussions, or by extensive empirical examinations of computer-mediated communication and intercultural communication. Against such a backdrop, this volume offers theoretical insights, fresh evidence and rich applications as it assesses the nature of digital culture(s) in order to address assumptions about the present state of mediated global society(ies) and their future trajectory. Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world. As such, this volume presents a rich and colorful tapestry that provides opportunities for comparative analyses and deepened international understandings of digital media connections, particularly in the areas of identity, community and politics.