WIT Press


Understanding Cultural And National Identity In Teleworking And Electronic Communication

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

31

Pages

10

Published

2004

Size

321 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/CI040311

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Z. Mustafa

Abstract

The goal of this research project is to study the computer mediated interactions between teams and individuals from extremely diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. In particular, the study aims at determining the sets of activities, behaviors and attitudes that are most conducive to positive or successful computer mediated cross cultural interactions between teams from highly diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The research question is addressed by a project where representative groups from populations of Jordan and Norway interact together in computer mediated environments. The participants are second year students majoring in Computer Science from Jordan University of Science and Technology in Jordan and Bergen University in Norway. The data on which this study is based consists of two parts. The first part was collected thr

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