In Europe in the recent past public interest and cultural arguments have been used to achieve exceptions for cultural products from free trade agreements and have led to the development of funding programmes at national and European level to support the production and distribution of certain types of media products. This has been given added impetus by a shift in cultural policy towards ‘cultur...

Diversity in recommendation lists or sets has shown to be an important feature in recommender systems as it can counteract on negative effects such as choice difficulty and choice overload. However, how much diversity a recommendation list needs to provide is not clearly defined. By analyzing music listening behavior of listeners in 47 countries, we show that diversity needs may be cultural dep...

● Cultural diversity in corporate e-learning ● Internationalization and localization of course content ● Cultural studies, information society and digital culture ● Cultural technology and info-communication industry ● Cultural economics, cross-cultural marketing and crosscultural communication in corporate e-learning ● Trends and best practices in global corporate e-learning ● The role of visu...

United States of America demographic profiles illustrate a nation rich in cultural and racial diversity. Approximately 29% of the population are minorities and demographic projections indicate an increase to 50% by the year 2050. This creates a highly mobile and constantly changing environment, revealing the need for new levels of cultural awareness and sensitivity. These issues are particularl...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present teaching strategies to enhance students’ cultural competence in non educational settings. Methods: Utilizing Purnell’s cultural competence model and Lattanzi’s cultural ladder the authors describe teaching strategies used to promote students’ understanding of the complex nature of culture and how the multiple layers of culture influence the healt...

Managing cultural diversity in the era of globalization of business has become a critical competency for today’s businesses. The role of universities in producing the human capital required by internationalizing businesses requires them to become more culturally diverse, including both the student body and their faculty. Managing this increasing cultural diversity and producing graduates with m...

Cultural competence (CC) for professionals and organizations has been recognized as a key strategy to reduce health care inequalities for migrants and to promote responsiveness to diversity. For decades its main aim has been matching health services to the cultural needs of migrant users. Otherwise literature highlighted the need to find a pragmatic middle way between the 'static' and the 'dyna...

Culturally transmitted behavior can be structured in its performance both geographically and temporally, in terms of where and when implements are made and used on the landscape (what Ingold calls "the taskscape"). Yet cultural transmission theory has not yet explored the consequences of behaviors transmitted differently due to their enactment at different taskscape locations, what Tostevin cal...

The purpose of the study is to develop an instructional design model to support learners' continuous reflection during the learning process in cultural diversity education. Current instructional models for cultural diversity education are inappropriately utilized in school settings due to the lack of specific guidelines for instructors’ and learners’ activities and their insufficient explanatio...