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Identity: Community, Culture, Difference Jonathan Rutherford
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

We were very lucky in late 2004 that a new medium, blogging, was just breaking through, providing space for us to express our points of view and connect dots between different perspectives and meanings. The aim is to allow researchers working on Intercultural and multicultural education (but also on other 'labels' such as global, transcultural education) to get together and discuss their differences and similarities and to put an end to "rivalries". The user-centric identity community's culture of collaboration online and at events has continued since that first IIW in part because we (myself, Doc and Phil) don't steer the community. The fact that the conference What has happened to contested – and yet central – concepts used by both 'multiculturalists' and 'interculturalists' in education: culture, identity, community, communication, ethnicity, race, etc.? Doc Seals encouraged many of us to . Drawing on indigenous gift cultures, I have sought to understand how social media users create positive reputations, communities, and prismatic identities through sharing (or 'gifting') with online crowds. "I Feel Like a Different Person" Scientists have long been interested in the interplay of emotions and identity, and some have recently zeroed in on cultural identity. If we are playing the reputation game correctly, the identity that we create on, say, LinkedIn will be subtly different to the identity that we create on Tumblr or Facebook. What other writer can one think of who married so very thoroughly into a different culture? A gift culture perspective highlights the motivations we create prismatic, multi-faceted, identities. One's heritage would seem to be especially stable and impervious to change, Then she gave all the volunteers a variety of tests, each designed to measure the strength of their values—either self-reliance on the one hand, or community harmony on the other.