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Internationalization is a growing area in world-wide higher education. In order for local and international students to develop into responsible global citizens, they need to interact while they are on the university campus together. With the aim of facilitating local and international student interaction, a Facebook Page was set up by the international office at a university. The page was monitored...
Hofstede's theory of national cultures has been widely used to analyze cultural differences. In this pilot study we describe our experiences applying an instrument based on Hofstede's work to determine whether his dimensions of national cultures can be mapped to academic disciplines. In this paper, we present information about Hofstede's model as well as critiques of both the model and the instrument...
We performed an experimental study (n=48) of the effects of context congruency on human perceptions of robotic facial expressions across cultures (Western and East Asian individuals). We found that context congruency had a significant effect on human perceptions, and that this effect varied by the emotional valence of the context and facial expression. Moreover, these effects occurred regardless of...
This research proposes a trust and reputation model to support collectivist digital business ecosystems for regions such as Africa, where collectivist culture norms and behaviours are common. As trusting behaviour is strongly influenced by cultural norms and beliefs, trust should not only be considered from a technical perspective, but also from a cultural perspective. A multi-level group trust and...
On the policy level, Tanzania has strongly committed to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supported education on all levels of education. National policy documents give ICT a high priority in development of the country's educational system. Curricula have been revamped to accommodate for increased role of ICT in the society and education. Also educational institutions have explicated...
We examine how sacred values, or fundamental beliefs that reflect moral norms, and national culture interact to influence perceptions in cross-cultural negotiation. Perceptions formed toward a negotiator can subsequently affect decision-making, cooperative behavior, outcomes and reputations. Caucasian-American and South Asian-Indian observers viewed an intercultural negotiation with a negative, distributive...
There are a large number of foreign language learners in China. Lots of research has been done on how to improve foreign language learning efficiency, but in reviewing the foreign language learning researches, it can be easily seen that the cultural effects on foreign language learning have not been given its due attention. Much of the research has been done within the scope of particular theories...
The sociocultural consequences of feminization of the modern educational space are considered in the article. The author states that the emancipation process, which determines the social and professional activity of women, should be considered not only in positive context but the negative effect connected with the steady growth of femininity dominance should also be taken into account.
With the globalization processing, intercultural communication and communicative failures have become more and more frequent. Cultural differences have become the major source of communicative failures. So it is necessary and important to raise intercultural communicative awareness. The author first analyzed the necessity of raising intercultural communication awareness, then discussed the principle...
Architectonic style is one of the special styles of art model. Architectonic sculptures that references architecture or have qualities of architecture are more suitable for urban decoration and park art. Survey and analysis of the architectonic sculpture's creation categories of historical periods and the problems of architectonic influence on Mongolian sculpture are analyzed in architectonic and...
There is increasing pressure to capture of video within Higher Education. Although much research has looked at how communication technologies enhance information transfer during playback of video, consideration of technical issues seems incongruous if we do not consider how presentation mode affects information assimilated by, and satisfaction of, learners with a range of individual differences, and...
This is the text of the keynote address at the Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, 23 October 2012, in Seattle, Washington, USA. The keynote postulates that 'to think that technology can solve the world's major social challenges is a myth', and questions if we know what 'technology' means and challenges our views on 'major social challenges'. The address positions itself from a rural African...
The network around an entrepreneur is conceptualized as having structural properties of size, diversity and composition as network components of varying prominence in the entrepreneur's network. These properties are important by impacting entrepreneurs' performance in terms of innovation, exporting and expectations for growth. In our research-consortium Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a sample of...
Once, long time ago, there was a very old dinosaur living on the planet Earth. Big yet invisible to most, living in the dark places full of cold, dust and cables; surrounded by several groups of faithful - very specialized software teams, the only ones who truly understood him. But the life on the planet Earth had never been steady and recently spinning faster and faster around, so it happen that...
The Internet is currently a very popular resource for young people. The Internet is characterized by its convenience and easy accessibility from everywhere and at anytime. At the same time, there are also several approaches of passing on knowledge via internet. Web-based edutainment game which refers to tourist destinations is one approach. In addition, learning through knowledge game is more interesting...
Stereotypes are cognitive schemas that influence our perception, beliefs and behavior toward members of a social group [12]. While culture is a salient social group characteristic and an important contextual cue for schema activation [27], there is limited research on cultural stereotypes and perception change in international negotiations. Thus, we examined perception formation and perception change...
This paper investigates the phenomenon of unethical use of information technology (IT) by developing and testing a model that postulates multiple influencing factors of unethical IT use. Results from two studies of young adult participants in USA and Finland show that unethical IT use is primarily influenced by social (e.g., subjective norms), situational (e.g., moral intensity), and technological...
this poster is explorative and it suggests searches for cross-cultural similarities in order to enhance successful interactions and understandings. It is argued that Geert Hofstede's work can be fruitful to put in to play in qualitative cultural research, and that culture shall be viewed as dynamic.
This is a descriptive study at the departmental level of a university. It provides a glimpse into the ways that this department, as an academic community implementing a design intensive degree program, deals with the conflicts between accreditation as a system of program assessment and the processes that distinguish them as a culture. The process under primary investigation was modification of curriculum...
Explain the characteristics of urban sculpture from the points: four dimensions, environment, public, culture and interaction. These characteristics require the sculptor to produce works in different ways. Meanwhile it gives new demands in the view of environment. That means, the way to produce urban sculpture has to follow some principle and program.
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