Argues for the importance of including both offline and online communication and interactions in the study of any society with cyber connectivity, given the increased impact of digital communications on cultural interactions and understandings.
Erica Zimmerman is Professor of Japanese language and Intercultural Communications in the Languages and Cultures Department at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. She is the author of Technology-Supported Learning In and Out of the Japanese Language Classroom: Advances in Pedagogy, Teaching, and Research (2019).