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Macfadyen, L. P., Morales, E., & Roche, J. (2025).
Culture and communication in digital worlds. https://digitalcultures.ca
This dynamic website and open educational resource (OER) shares the outcomes of an ongoing academic project on culture, communication, and digital technologies. It includes a growing, searchable collection of research, an invitation to contribute new work, and our 2025 review of the field.
Macfadyen, L. P., Morales, E., & Roche, J. (2025).
Culture and communication in digital worlds. A scoping review of literature from the Third Age of internet studies.
The University of British Columbia. https://doi.org/10.14288/r5xm-qn87
What happens when people from different cultural backgrounds try to communicate using digital technologies? This review offers a roadmap and thematic analysis of literature we compiled from 2003-2023. In it, we consider what research is telling us about whether digital communication technologies represent new opportunities, new threats, or both, for human cultures.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2008).
Constructing ethnicity and identity in the online classroom: Linguistic practices and ritual text acts.
(Networked Learning Conference 2008, Greece, May 2008).
Macfadyen, L. P. (2006).
Virtual Ethnicity: The new digitization of place, body, language, and memory.
Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education, 8 (1).
Macfadyen, L. P. & Doff., S. (2006).
The Language of Cyberspace.
In C. Ghaoui (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 396-403). Hershey, PA: The Idea Group, Inc.
Macfadyen, L. P. (2006).
In a world of text, is the author King? The revolutionary potential of wiki (open content) technologies.
(In F. Sudweeks, H. Hrachovec and C. Ess (Eds.), Proceedings, Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication, Tartu, Estonia, 28 June-1 July 2006 (pp. 285-298). Murdoch University: Perth, Australia.)
Macfadyen, L. P. (2005).
From the Spoken to the Written: The Changing Cultural Role of Folk and Fairy Tales.
Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, X(1): 143-153.
Chase, M., Macfadyen, L.P., Reeder, K. and Roche, J. (2002).
Intercultural Challenges in Networked Learning: Hard Technologies Meet Soft Skills.
First Monday, 7(8) (August 2002).
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