Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age

Margaret U. D'Silva is a Professor of Communication and Director of the Institute for Intercultural Communication at the University of Louisville. She is President (2019-2021) of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies. Widely published, she recently co-edited, with Ahmet Atay, Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age (2019, Routledge). Ahmet Atay is an Associate Professor at The College of Wooster. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015, Lexington Books) and co-editor of 9 books. He recently co-edited Millennials and Media Ecology: Culture, Pedagogy, and Politics (2019, Routledge), Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age (2019, Routledge), and Examining Millenials Reshaping Organizational Cultures: From Theory to Practice (2018, Lexington Books).

• IntroductionCultural Identity and Activism In Digital SpacesMargaret U. D’Silva and Ahmet AtayPart I Intercultural Communication, Online Community, and IdentityChapter 1From Pen Pals to ePals: Mediated Intercultural Exchange in a Historical PerspectiveKatie Day GoodChapter 2Western Media’s Influence on Identity Negotiation in Pre-Asylum ‘Gay’ MenNathian Shae RodriguezChapter 3‘Serving Activist Realness’: The New Drag Superstars and Activism Under TrumpRenee Middlemost Chapter 4Brexit and EU Migration in the BBC and CNN: Britishness versus EU IdentityFathi BourmecheChapter 5Who am I?, Who are They?: Otherness in the Human Rights Discourse of the United Nations Facebook PagesMonserrat Fernandez-VelaPart II Intercultural Communication and Online Social MovementsChapter 6Tents, Tweets, and Television: Communicative Ecologies and the No to Military Trials for Civilians Grassroots Campaign in Revolutionary EgyptNina Grønlykke MollerupChapter 7"Unfriending" Is Easy: Intercultural Miscommunication on Social NetworksOlga BayshaChapter 8Analyzing the Women to Drive Campaign on FacebookHuda Mohsin AlsahiChapter 9"Does This Lab Coat Make Me Look #DistractinglySexy?": A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Feminist Hashtag CampaignAlex Rister & Jennifer SandovalChapter 10Papuan Political Resistance on Social Media: Regionalisation and Internationalisation of Papuan IdentityYuyun W. I Surya