ABSTRACT
Scholars have been engaging in conversations among themselves and with colleagues around the globe about the changing face of intercultural communication (IC). Social media have allowed them to maintain contact with friends and relatives in their homelands. Mediated pictures of family festivities, weddings, and funerals have provided opportunities for long-distance participation in celebration and in mourning. Media texts, social media platforms, global applications, and cyberculture play a paramount role in IC, particularly in the context of globalization. The consumption of globalized mediated texts can impact the ways in which the audience cultivates an understanding of different cultures, cultural groups, and cultural identities. National digitalized social movements around the world, identity performances of diasporic queer bodies, and long-distance relationships between partners and family members are some of the most common examples of cyber or digital IC forms, moments, or narratives. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
