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14-12-2012 12:00 AM

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The Internet, World Wide Web, and related ICTs, have rapidly spread to a large number of countries and great variety of cultures. Many of these technologies facilitate and mediate activities whose modes and means bind closely to culture. Research has suggested that communication technologies can affect values and norms for behavior. Therefore, this research aims to explore and describe the impact of IT on culture, using Saudi Arabia as a context for our study. In particular, we are interested in answering the following question: How does IT impact culture? We use phenomenological method, and provide an integration of a framework for IT-driven impact on culture. The resulting framework can serve as a basis for further investigation to understand individuals’ culturally linked behavior to various IT in diverse contexts The ultimate goal is to lay a foundation for much needed research on the IT role in cultural change.

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Dec 14th, 12:00 AM

The Impact of Information Technology (IT) on National Culture: The Case of Saudi Arabia

The Internet, World Wide Web, and related ICTs, have rapidly spread to a large number of countries and great variety of cultures. Many of these technologies facilitate and mediate activities whose modes and means bind closely to culture. Research has suggested that communication technologies can affect values and norms for behavior. Therefore, this research aims to explore and describe the impact of IT on culture, using Saudi Arabia as a context for our study. In particular, we are interested in answering the following question: How does IT impact culture? We use phenomenological method, and provide an integration of a framework for IT-driven impact on culture. The resulting framework can serve as a basis for further investigation to understand individuals’ culturally linked behavior to various IT in diverse contexts The ultimate goal is to lay a foundation for much needed research on the IT role in cultural change.