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Social networking as a vehicle to foster cross-cultural awareness

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IDC '11: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1999030.1999063

Published: 20 June 2011 Publication History

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The growth of online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Linked-In has transformed the way in which individuals establish and maintain relationships for both business and entertainment. In this paper we present the analysis of a similar online social network that was used to foster cross-cultural awareness among users ages 14--17. The social network provided students across the globe with an environment to establish online identities, explore their own culture and the culture of peers who were located in three different countries. We make recommendations to network designers to reconsider friendship metaphors, work within existing network tools, and replace text as the default medium in communication.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3364183.3364184
Walsh GFoss EBers MRevelle G(2015)A case for intergenerational distributed co-designProceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/2771839.2771850(99-108)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2771839.2771850
Walsh GDruin AGuha MBonsignore EFoss EYip JGolub EClegg TBrown QBrewer RJoshi ABrown RSchelhowe H(2012)DisCoProceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/2307096.2307099(11-19)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2307096.2307099

Index Terms

Social networking as a vehicle to foster cross-cultural awareness
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction

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DOI:10.1145/1999030

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Sarangapani VKharrufa ALeat DWright PRangaswamy NLoganathan RTiwari ALoganathan R(2019)Fostering deep learning in cross-cultural education through use of content-creation toolsProceedings of the 10th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3364183.3364184(1-11)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3364183.3364184
Walsh GFoss EBers MRevelle G(2015)A case for intergenerational distributed co-designProceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/2771839.2771850(99-108)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2771839.2771850
Walsh GDruin AGuha MBonsignore EFoss EYip JGolub EClegg TBrown QBrewer RJoshi ABrown RSchelhowe H(2012)DisCoProceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/2307096.2307099(11-19)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2307096.2307099

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