The increasingly global nature of the World Wide Web presents new challenges and opportunities for technical communicators who must develop content for clients or colleagues from other cultures and in other nations

Kirk St. Amant, Filipp Sapienza, Charles Sides

Culture, Cyberspace, and the New Challenges for Technical Communicators Kirk St.Amant
SECTION I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION IN CYBERSPACE
CHAPTER 1
Using Global Contexts to Localize Online Content for International Audiences R. Peter Hunsinger
CHAPTER 2
Making the User the Localization Expert: Employing User-Customization Strategies in Globalizing Online Content Clinton R. Lanier
CHAPTER 3
Optimizing International Information Systems Matthew McCool
CHAPTER 4
Cyberspace, International Intellectual Property Law, and Rhetoric Martine Courant Rife
SECTION II: ONLINE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CULTURES
CHAPTER 5
Pleasure in Naming All the Parts of the Known in Their Expected Order: How Traditional Chinese Agrarian Culture Influences Modern Chinese Cyberspace Communication Daniel D. Ding
CHAPTER 6
What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate: How Cultural Factors Affect Online Communication Between East and West Carol M. Barnum
CHAPTER 7
Meeting Each Other Online: Corpus-Based Insights on Preparing Professional Writers for International Settings Boyd Davis, Tsui-ping Chen, Hui-fang Peng, and Paul Blewchamp
SECTION III: CROSS-CULTURAL COLLABORATIONS AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
CHAPTER 8
Virtual Design Studio: Facilitating Online Learning and Communication Between U.S. and Kenyan Participants Audrey Bennett, Ron Eglash, and Mukkai Krishnamoorthy
CHAPTER 9
Cultural Adaptation of Cybereducation Judith B. Strother
CHAPTER 10
Digital Ecologies: Observations of Intercultural Interactions in Learning Management Systems Sipai Klein and Sharon Trujillo Lalla
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