Reflecting on cultural sensitity in digital environments

The article above is very intersting to reflect about cultural senitivity in digital enviornments. IIn the previous units you have learn about cultural differences and cultural intelligence in interpersonal relationships; they are fundamental also in digital environments.  

On the other hand, digital technologies can represent for many people, reserachers and experts, a great opportunity to stay open to diversity and other way of communicating:  

Digital technologies provide people with an excellent opportunity to access cultural
expressions from all over the world. Research has shown that while cultural participation is
linked to wellbeing and various societal values, it is stratified. Despite evidence of unequal
access, digital technology use, and cultural participation, and of a relationship between cul
tural openness and social openness, no research has addressed the sequential relationship
among these factors and their degree of stratification". 

Read the full article here:  Access to digital culture as a driver of social and cultural openness: European evidence

Cultural sensitivity develops in parallel with cultural competency and cultural humility, all concepts that can help us interact in multicultural spaces, even digital and tecnology-mediated. The short following video is useful to understand the differencies between these very synergic concepts: