[Air-L] Update on Ting-Toomey?

Charles Ess charles.ess at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 04:40:17 PST 2009


Hi all,
I'm looking into literature in CMC and HCI - inspired by CATaC colleagues
and 2008 presentations by José Abdelnour-Nocera, Lorna Heaton, Leah
Macfadyen, and Marie-Christine Deyrich & Nada Matas-Runquist on the manifold
limitations of older models for cultural analysis (read: Hall and Hofstede)
and suggestions for new directions.
Jose and his colleagues - along with many others, including Charlotte
Gunawardena and her colleagues (also in a 2008 CATaC paper, A Cross-cultural
study of identity and face negotiation in visually anonymous online chat, in
F. Sudweeks, H. Hrachovec and C. Ess (eds). Proceedings Cultural Attitudes
Towards Communication and Technology 2008, Murdoch University, Australia,
525-539) - refer to the 1998 article, Ting-Toomey, Stella and Kurogi,
Atsuko, Facework Competence in Intercultural Conflict: an Updated
Face-Negotiation Theory. Intercultural Relations, Vol. 11, No. 1: pp.
76-114.
All of which is terrific and incredibly useful - in part as Gunawardena et
al further take up a notion of idioculture that seems to more accurately
describe online 'cultures' while not entirely abandoning whatever more
general claims might be made about 'culture' in a broader, especially
national-linguistic sense.

My question: is there more recent work on face and face negotiation -
perhaps by Ting-Toomy and/or those following in her (criticizing her?)
footsteps - that seems especially pertinent / applicable to the various
venues of CMC?

Thanks in advance for any tips and suggestions!

- charles ess
Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab
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