ABSTRACT
This chapter explores today’s universities’ digital campuses—representing the official online digital spaces of universities—as spaces with the potential for intercultural learning. At the same time, there is the potential for digital segmentation if students and staff choose to use their sources and create their own community spaces to the exclusion of others. Digital spaces are affected by cultures and cultural interpretations, but often digital information is presented from the specific cultural perspective, preferences, and biases of the writers and cultural cues are often missing; it is left to readers to bring their own cultural perspectives to interpret what is online. Chang and Gomes describe how key concepts from Josef A. Mestenhauser’s work on university campuses as places for intercultural learning might help us understand how the digital campus of universities can be shaped to benefit international and intercultural learning rather than be spaces of segmented groups.
