Designing a Culturally Sensitive Wiki Space for Developing Chinese Students' Media Literacy

International Association for the Development of the Information Society. e-mail: secretariat@iadis.org; Web site: http://www.iadisportal.org

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Cultural Relevance; Media Literacy; Cooperation; Interaction; Cultural Differences; Asians; Culturally Relevant Education; Web 2.0 Technologies; English Literature; Asian Culture; College Students; Majors (Students); English (Second Language); Web Sites; Pretests Posttests; Skill Development; Student Attitudes; Peer Influence; Student Needs; College Faculty; Teacher Role; Foreign Countries

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Due to technological development and intensification of integration processes all over the world, people from different cultural backgrounds have more opportunities to maintain academic and professional cooperation. To make this cooperation more effective, it is important to take into consideration diverse ethnic values and their influence on interaction. That is why many researchers focus on the issues that arise when there is a need to use modern web technologies in a multinational context. This paper addresses the problem of providing education to Chinese students in a foreign country by means of wikis. [For full proceedings, see ED557189.]

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2015

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