Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Recent expansion of telecommunication technologies, especially the Internet, is rapidly diminishing the distance between cultures.Intercultural communication instructors now have an opportunity to use the new media technologies as innovative and interactive semiotic teaching tools (Berge and Collins 1995).In this article, we discuss ways in which communication technology can be used to augment and intensify students' intercultural communication learning experience with social and cultural codes (Jones and Jones 1994, 1998).Included in this analysis are descriptions of projects used in intercultural communication classes at two American (USA) universities, one a large state public university and the other a small private university.The projects on which we are reporting include: (1) a keypal project, (2) electronic discussion groups, and (3) the use of intercultural sites on
DOI: 10.5840/ajs200117228
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2014936397