The tourist accident: Notes on the limits of intercultural communication
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2005.28.3344Keywords:
globalization, intercultural communication, ambivalenceAbstract
In this paper, intercultural conflicts less problematized nowadays in the public debate, as those observed between China and the Ocident, gets relevance justly because could be seen in unusual settings, such as the assertions made by one of the most influents Brazilian journalists covering issues related to ‘information society’. Strongly inspired in the cybernetics ideals, the concept of ‘communication society’ reveals, in that assertions, a conservative and heterophobic tone, despite the hegemonic claims supporting an alleged cosmopolitism made possible by that medias.Downloads
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