(Re)Conceptualizing Intercultural Communication in a Networked Society

Authors

Damien S. Pfister, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Jordan Soliz, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

11-2011

Comments

Published in Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 4:4 (November 2011), pp. 246–251; doi: 10.1080/17513057.2011.598043 Copyright © 2011 National Communication Association; published by Taylor & Francis. Used by permission.

Abstract

We offer four theses about how intercultural communication is altered in a digitally networked era. Digital media shape intercultural communication by (1) producing new public fora capable of (2) hosting rich, multimodal ‘‘spaces’’ of contact on (3) a scale of many-to-many communication that (4) challenges traditional modes of representation