What is Cross-Cultural Communications?

Cross-Cultural Communication involves both verbal and visual modes of social interaction and is my stepping stone to Masters degree in International Communications. My interests have recently begun to focus on Computer-Mediated Communication and Interface Design (Human-Computer Interaction), which may lead me towards a different, but associated, direction for graduate school.

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PAPERS

Culture, Power and Social Action of the Internet
Pauletta Pan, Fall94 "Culture, Power and Social Action" under Professor Richard Maddox. Research for this paper is what influenced my interest in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

A Portée de la Main (editing to html)
Pauletta Pan, Spring95 (in french)

HCI and Cross-Cultural Communications
My application essay to Boston University's study/intern abroad program in France 1995-96. I summarized my past and explained my general career goals.

Electropolis: Communication and Community on IRC
Elizabeth M. Reid, University of Melbourne 1991 (Honors Thesis)

History and Impact of the Net
By Michael Hauben, Columbia (NY). Includes "The Expanding Commonwealth of Learning: Printing and the Net"

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION LINKS

  • Language and linguistics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Global village
  • The European Union and the Internet (I'M Europe, Luxembourg)
  • Global network navigation
  • Internet orientation
  • Internet culture
  • MediaPort - Le monde diplomatique

    • RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

  • Apple Computer, Inc.
  • Center for Information Technology
  • Center for the Study of Language and Information (Stanford University)
  • CRISS: Centre de Recherche en Informatique appliquée aux Sciences Sociales Universit Pierre Mends France (Universit des Sciences Sociales et Humaines de Grenoble)
  • Human-Computer Interaction Institute (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Institute for Global Communication
  • MIT Media lab
  • XEROX PARC and Xerox Grenoble
  • AT&T

    • OTHER LINKS AND RESOURCES

  • Howard Rheingold (The Well)
  • NASA's JASON On-line Telecom System

    • "Bob's blending of the social with the mechanical could easily trivialize the relationships people have with information and, more significantly, people have with each other. I'd rather put effort into creating intelligence in the nine-year old boy or girl who wants to learn, and give them literacy and judgement, and the ability to work with the other people. I'd rather focus on creating lucid interfaces, not cartoons. Then children might have a chance to achieve something more than the ability to use information as entertainment." - John December, CMC, Feb95

    ppan@cs.cmu.edu - updated 24 July 95