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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Discovering and Interpreting Meaning in Finnish and American Codes of Communication |
| Michael Berry, Donal Carbaugh, and Marjatta Nurmikari-Berry |
| Turku School of Economics and Business Administra-tion, Finland |
| University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA |
| Turku Polytechnic, Finland |
| Information technologies bring into view not only ideas and their transmission via electronic devices, but also |
| means of expression and the meanings they assume for readers / listeners / viewers. This trans-formation -- from |
| information through technology to expressions and their meanings -- is an intrinsic part of any electronically |
| mediated communication. This project explores one such electronically medi-ated text, Tango Finlandia, a segment |
| of the popular American news program, 60 Minutes, as it has been broadcast and discussed prominently in the |
| United States and Finland. Analyses of exchanges be-tween Finnish and American students demonstrate how the |
| "exact same" televisual information and the "exact same" English words convey information that is transformed |
| into two different expressive sys-tems with very different cultural meanings. |
| Key words: Pedagogy, Cultural Discourse, English, information technology, intercultural communica-tion, Finland, |
| United States, Tango Finlandia |
ISSN
1535-07-03
Unless otherwise indicated, this paper has undergone blind external review by three or more reviewers.
Types of Papers: A Best Paper, Regular Paper, Short Paper, Informal Paper,
Unrefereed Panel Paper
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