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Griffin, Robert E.; And Others – 1995
The purpose of this study was to measure how well business and professional people from various cultures interpret symbols commonly used in international business presentations. Questionnaires contained 15 black and white symbols, selected from the clip art collection of Harvard Graphics business graphics software. Respondents from the United…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Cultural Influences, Cultural Literacy, Data Interpretation
Michaels, Eric – 1986
This paper describes the unique development of media histories among developing peoples as compared to the western world's media development sequence from orality to literacy, print, film, and electronics. The fallacy of unilineal cultural evolution is presented, reviewed in terms of how it persists in current theories of media history, and then…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Ethnology, Foreign Countries, Graphic Arts