Improving Cross-Cultural Awareness and Communication through Mobile Technologies

Adele Botha, Steve Vosloo, John Kuner and Madelein van den Berg
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Adele Botha: Meraka Institute, South Africa
Steve Vosloo: Stanford University, USA
John Kuner: Stanford University, USA
Madelein van den Berg: Meraka Institute, South Africa

International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL), 2009, vol. 1, issue 2, 39-53

Abstract: Increasingly, technology is mediating the way in which the youth around the world communicate, consume content and create meaning. As mobile communication media and the internet become more pervasive, young people from different cultures and communities are afforded more opportunities for collaboration across previously unbridgeable distances. The need for cross-cultural awareness and communication is thus more important than ever. The initiative described in this article, successfully demonstrated the role of mobile phones and the web as mediating technologies in the development of intercultural competencies and communication skills among a group of teenagers scattered across two countries.

Date: 2009
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