Category Archives: High and Low Context Cultures

Always on and Connected: young people and their mobile social media use in Japan, the US, and the UK @Japan Foundation London

Speaker: Professor Toshie Takahashi Discussant: Dr. Chris Davies abstract How similar are young people in different parts of the world in the way they use digital media? What do they share cross-culturally – and what not? Do cultural differences really … Continue reading

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“Japanese Youth & Social Media”@ IAMCR 2013

I discussed youths’ social media engagement within the Japanese context at IAMCR in Dublin, 20131.  In my presentation, by using the concepts of high and low context cultures, I demonstrated the reason why Japanese young people are using both American … Continue reading

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