Journal article
Mindscapes and Internet-mediated communication
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol.7(3)
2006
Abstract
Cultures are considered to be epistemologically heterogeneous, and it is assumed that epistemologically similar individuals exist across distinct cultures. Epistemological type is viewed as prior to, and transcendent of, nationality and culture. Identifying a shared epistemological basis for communication will be more likely to succeed in dialogical contexts where conformity to prevailing national stereotypes may fail. Two levels of communication are distinguished: explicate (here seen as conformity to social and cultural symbolic norms and conventions), and implicate (the level at which implicit, abstract communicative intention originates). Cyberspatial interactions potentially undermine normative cultural influences and permit multicultural or transcultural environments in which new codes extending from epistemological types (rather than cultural) become possible, limited only by media potential and symbolization itself. Drawing upon Maruyama's (1980) theory, implications for an alternative to the homogenization of verbal communication, and potential elements of codes for universal understandings are considered.
Details
- Title
- Mindscapes and Internet-mediated communication
- Authors/Creators
- J. Gammack (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol.7(3)
- Publisher
- International Communication Association
- Identifiers
- 991005542819607891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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