Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 State and Society in the Era of Migration -- 1.1 Global Society -- 1.2 Contemporary Migrations -- 1.3 Deconstruction of the Nation State -- 1.4 Cosmopolitan Europe -- 1.5 Civil Society and the Challenges of a Multicultural Society -- 1.6 Multicultural Citizenship -- 2 Multiculturalism and Shaping Individual Identity -- 2.1 Multiculturalism -- 2.2 Tolerance in Intercultural Relations -- 2.3 Cultural Differences -- 2.4 Cultural Differences and Attitudes to Immigrants -- 2.5 Shaping Individual Attitudes -- 2.6 Individual's Cultural Identity -- 2.7 Globalisation as a Factor Shaping Individual Identity -- 3 Media and Intercultural Communication -- 3.1 Intercultural Communication - Theoretical Issues -- 3.2 Barriers to Intercultural Communication - Prejudices and Stereotypes -- 3.3 Functions and Impact of Mass Media in Intercultural Communication -- 3.4 New Media and Their Significance in Contemporary Communication -- 3.5 Characteristics of Communication in Social Media -- 3.6 Social Media in Intercultural Communication -- 3.7 Tolerance in Network Communication -- 4 Empirical Aspects of Network Communication Processes in the Light of Migration and Cultural Differences -- 4.1 Research Methodology -- 4.2 The Role of New Media in Overcoming Stereotypes and Prejudices of Students -- 4.3 Summary of the First Stage of Research -- 4.4 The Significance of Social Media in Shaping Students' Attitudes to Immigrants -- 4.5 Summary of the Second Stage of Research -- 4.6 The Use of Social Media in Communication Processes of Representatives of High- and Low-Context Cultures -- 4.7 Summary of the Third Stage of Research -- Network Communication and Cultural Identity of an Individual - Summary Attempt -- References -- List of Tables and Charts -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

The book presents comparative research which was carried out among students from Krakow, Berlin and Kiev from 2014 to 2016. It unveils a correlation between the cultural affiliation of netizens and their attitudes as well as communication behaviour in Internet interactions: cultural changes in network communication might affect cultural attitudes.

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