CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL NEW MEDIA RESEARCH
While the 20th century was marked by the development of powerful mass media platforms, the 21st century is witnessing an explosion of new media technologies situated at the crossroads of interpersonal, intercultural, and mass communication. Information and communications technologies (ICTs), including social media, mobile phones, text messaging, email, multi-media on-line games (MMOG), and blogs, enable humankind to connect interpersonally across cultures and nations in ways unimagined until the dawn of the 21st century. Unlike 20th century mass media, new media are technological extensions of private and public selves – mobile platforms that empower each human being to communicate personally with a multiplicity of others across space and time.
The Center for Intercultural New Media Research (CINMR) is a global network of more than 390 scholars -- and a think tank and clearinghouse for scholarship -- that focus on the impact of new media on human communication across cultures, nations, and world regions. CINMR research associates come from 58 countries and represent 232 universities The goals of CINMR are threefold:
(1) Gather, generate and disseminate intercultural new media research
(2) Apply intercultural new media research to organizational challenges in private and public sectors
(3) Provide CINMR research associates with a searchable and interactive directory that enables them to identify and communicate
with intercultural new media scholars worldwide (Click here for access)
Inspired by the unique potential of new media to increase and, indeed, enrich intercultural contact, the Center’s research activities explore the role of new media in fostering intercultural dialogue between diverse populations, private and public multinational organizations, and governments worldwide.
The Center for Intercultural New Media Research (CINMR) is a global network of more than 390 scholars -- and a think tank and clearinghouse for scholarship -- that focus on the impact of new media on human communication across cultures, nations, and world regions. CINMR research associates come from 58 countries and represent 232 universities The goals of CINMR are threefold:
(1) Gather, generate and disseminate intercultural new media research
(2) Apply intercultural new media research to organizational challenges in private and public sectors
(3) Provide CINMR research associates with a searchable and interactive directory that enables them to identify and communicate
with intercultural new media scholars worldwide (Click here for access)
Inspired by the unique potential of new media to increase and, indeed, enrich intercultural contact, the Center’s research activities explore the role of new media in fostering intercultural dialogue between diverse populations, private and public multinational organizations, and governments worldwide.
