people can never part from their real culture, they could never
become a part of an Internet culture because they are also products of the culture in which
they were raised. Although they employ the internet to communicate, it is not responsible for
forming their basic faith. Rather, their faith and basic feelings are what bring them to use the
internet.
Finally the culture, then, is responsible for forming the traditions and the customs. It is
inseparable of the identity of a person. It is not a clear definition, but it is sufficient to
examine the possibility of the existence of an internet culture. Is there an internet culture or is
the internet experience far away from forming the culture? And, maybe in an essential way,
whoever using the internet becomes part of internet culture during the communication act.
The experiments of internet miss the depth of the real experiences. Because they are limited to
the auditory and visual modalities, the experiences of internet cannot benefit from senses
which are more emotionally loaded with the smell and the contact.
Conclusion:
The purpose of this study was to examine in the first place the internet culture and its’ effects
on intercultural communication. Most of researches show us that people can form strong
social bonds on-line and that relationships formed on-line can carry to the off-line world.
What seems difficult to measure in this context is the intercultural communication issues such
as misunderstandings. Our case study was a simple but a questioning example of intercultural
communication in a computer-mediated environment and can stimulate further issues in the
related field. Additional explorations must be added to complete this study. It is also
necessary to examine more interpersonal communication in a web-based environment, which
have different cultural values, with a larger size of the content sample. While most of the
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AGRE P., (1997), “Building an internet culture”, Los Angeles, Pergamon Press, p. 112-117
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KRAUT et al.(2002), “Internet Paradox Revisited”, Journal of Social Issues, Vol.58, No.1, pp. 49-74
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