Facebook and the Interaction of Culture and Conflict

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Author(s): Godfrey A. Steele (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 25
Source title: Reconceptualizing New Media and Intercultural Communication in a Networked Society
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nurhayat Bilge (Florida International University, USA)and María Inés Marino (Florida International University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3784-7.ch008

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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The intersection of culture and conflict is relatively understudied in communication, focusing on mass-self communication and power relations and new media scholarship. Conflict and the cultural dimensions in media coverage are well documented, but with less attention to new media cultural settings, often limited to use as one-way broadcasting media or as audiencing participants in social media marketing. Potentially more interactive communication exists within a closed community, especially because Facebook has defining cultural, psychological, and psychosocial characteristics. Conflict message interactions facilitate studying the intersection of culture and conflict within a new media setting. This chapter focuses on conflict within the cultural context of Facebook closed communities, theorizes about this relationship, and tests its application.

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