Table of Contents
Volume 1 Issue #3 of CSCC Newsletter includes:
Intercultural Communication
Instructional and Developement Communication
Religious Communication Research
Abstract
For the survival and development of important human values, the study of intercultural communication may be one of the critical areas of communication research. One has only to witness "Kojak" and "Starsky and Hutch" bouncing off satellites into the intimacy of minds and homes in cultures of India and Thailand to realize this. Vendors of communication technology are rushing to pen a Pandora's box of influences which may erode cultural ideals created over thousands of years. Once again we are not prepared to cope with the human and social implications of communication technology.
But the focus of research in intercultural communication is the subject of much debate.
Some contend that the emphasis in this field on training technical consultants, missionaries, and transnational representatives to avoid stumbling over their worst ethnocentrisms is just a new face for the old imperialism.
The interest in intercultural communication as a means to improve international relations is viewed in some quarters as a polyanna-like idealism behind which lurks an obsession for international "law and order" with its own self-serving motives.
Many -- both sensitive missionaries and non-Christians -- are concerned with the impact of Western Christianity on great Eastern civilizations.
Others rejoin, "These civilizations are inevitably going down before the onslaught of blue jeans, rock music, and the thousand gadgets of modern technology. This 'culture-free' technology is the new world civilization." This CSCC NEWSLETTER was current research on intercultural communication and examines some of the debate of the major issues.
Recommended Citation
(1979)
"Intercultural Communication,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 0:
No.
3, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol0/iss3/1