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 Cat́ia 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.

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