{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,5]],"date-time":"2026-03-05T17:19:52Z","timestamp":1772731192475,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":49,"publisher":"Springer Science and Business Media LLC","issue":"1","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,19]],"date-time":"2021-04-19T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1618790400000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,19]],"date-time":"2021-04-19T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1618790400000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"}],"funder":[{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100001691","name":"Japan Society for the Promotion of Science","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["JPJSBP120185411"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["JPJSBP120185411"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100001691","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100001728","name":"Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["JA2017-6999"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["JA2017-6999"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100001728","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100007051","name":"Uppsala University","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100007051","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"crossref"}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":["link.springer.com"],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Rev Socionetwork Strat"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2021,5]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title><jats:p>Intercultural information ethics (IIE), a field which draws on the limits and richness of human morality and moral thinking in different societies, epochs and philosophic traditions as well as on their impact on today\u2019s social appropriation of information and communication technology, has been argued to lack an adequate theoretical understanding of culture. In this paper, we take a non-essentialist view of culture as a point of departure and discuss not what culture is, but what we (both in our everyday lives, and as researchers) do when we use the concept of culture. To do so, we look for inspiration in the concept of suture, a concept which means the thread which stitches, or the act of stitching, a wound, but has had a long and intricate journey within psychoanalysis and film studies concerning the issue of identification. Three understandings of the use of culture emerge: suture as cultural misidentification, the evil in the cultural suture, and multiple, repeated cultural sutures. We use these categories to diagnose the use of culture in IIE and beyond, and suggest that the use of culture as multiple, repeated sutures\u2014in other words, a recognition that we constantly fail in describing culture or cultural differences, and that each suture is coloured by its conditions of production, and that we cannot but suture with culture anyway\u2014might be a way forward for cross-cultural research.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1007\/s12626-021-00080-x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,19]],"date-time":"2021-04-19T13:05:13Z","timestamp":1618837513000},"page":"71-85","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Culture as Suture: on the Use\u00a0of \u201cCulture\u201d in Cross-Cultural Studies in and Beyond Intercultural Information Ethics"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7506-7280","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thomas Taro","family":"Lennerfors","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Kiyoshi","family":"Murata","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,19]]},"reference":[{"issue":"4","key":"80_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"885","DOI":"10.5465\/amr.2008.34421995","volume":"33","author":"G Ailon","year":"2008","unstructured":"Ailon, G. (2008). Mirror, mirror on the wall: culture\u2019s consequences in a value test of its own design. Academy of Management Review, 33(4), 885\u2013904","journal-title":"Academy of Management Review"},{"key":"80_CR2","volume-title":"Manifesto for philosophy","author":"A Badiou","year":"1999","unstructured":"Badiou, A. (1999). Manifesto for philosophy. State University of New York Press"},{"key":"80_CR3","volume-title":"On Beckett","author":"A Badiou","year":"2003","unstructured":"Badiou, A. (2003). On Beckett. Clinamen"},{"key":"80_CR4","first-page":"233","volume":"2","author":"J Bielby","year":"2015","unstructured":"Bielby, J. (2015). Comparative philosophies in intercultural information ethics. Confluence: Online Journal of World Philosophies, 2, 233\u2013253","journal-title":"Confluence: Online Journal of World Philosophies"},{"issue":"2\u20133","key":"80_CR5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"167","DOI":"10.1007\/s10676-008-9162-x","volume":"10","author":"R Capurro","year":"2008","unstructured":"Capurro, R. (2008). On Floridi\u2019s metaphysical foundation of information ecology. Ethics and Information Technology, 10(2\u20133), 167\u2013173","journal-title":"Ethics and Information Technology"},{"key":"80_CR6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4324\/9780203357026","volume-title":"Feminist film theorists: Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed","author":"S Chaudhuri","year":"2006","unstructured":"Chaudhuri, S. (2006). Feminist film theorists: Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed. Routledge"},{"issue":"1","key":"80_CR7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"76","DOI":"10.1108\/14779960810866819","volume":"6","author":"G Collste","year":"2008","unstructured":"Collste, G. (2008). Global ICT-ethics: the case of privacy. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 6(1), 76\u201387","journal-title":"Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society"},{"key":"80_CR8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Dahl, \u00d8. (2014). Is culture something we have or something we do? From descriptive essentialist to dynamic intercultural constructivist communication. Journal of Intercultural Communication 36. https:\/\/immi.se\/intercultural\/nr36\/dahl.html","DOI":"10.36923\/jicc.v14i3.678"},{"key":"80_CR9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"195","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9780511498725.012","volume-title":"Information technology and moral philosophy","author":"C Ess","year":"2008","unstructured":"Ess, C. (2008). Culture and global networks hope for a global ethics? In M. J. van den Joven & J. Weckert (Eds.), Information technology and moral philosophy. (pp. 195\u2013225). Cambridge University Press"},{"key":"80_CR10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"34","DOI":"10.4324\/9781315748962","volume":"2017","author":"C Ess","year":"2017","unstructured":"Ess, C. (2017). What\u2019s \u201cculture\u201d got to do with it? A (personal) review of CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication), 1998\u20132014. Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories, 2017, 34\u201348. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781315748962","journal-title":"Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories"},{"key":"80_CR11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s13347-020-00412-9","author":"C Ess","year":"2020","unstructured":"Ess, C. (2020). Interpretative Pros Hen Pluralism: from Computer-Mediated Colonization to a Pluralistic Intercultural Digital Ethics. Philosophy and Technology. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13347-020-00412-9","journal-title":"Philosophy and Technology"},{"issue":"1","key":"80_CR12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"179","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1083-6101.2006.tb00309.x","volume":"11","author":"C Ess","year":"2005","unstructured":"Ess, C., & Sudweeks, F. (2005). Culture and computer-mediated communication: toward new understandings. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), 179\u2013191. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1083-6101.2006.tb00309.x","journal-title":"Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication"},{"key":"80_CR13","volume-title":"The Lacanian subject: between language and jouissance","author":"B Fink","year":"1995","unstructured":"Fink, B. (1995). The Lacanian subject: between language and jouissance. N.J. Princeton Univ. Press"},{"key":"80_CR14","unstructured":"Fors, P., & Lennerfors, T. T. (2013). Translating Green IT: The Case of the Swedish Green IT Audit. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainability (pp. 208\u2013216)"},{"key":"80_CR15","volume-title":"Nihonjinron reconsidered","author":"T Funabiki","year":"2020","unstructured":"Funabiki, T. (2020). Nihonjinron reconsidered. Kodansha (in Japanese)"},{"key":"80_CR16","volume-title":"Hidden differences:understanding the Japanese and how to do business with them","author":"ET Hall","year":"1987","unstructured":"Hall, E. T., & Hall, M. R. (1987). Hidden differences:understanding the Japanese and how to do business with them. Anchor Press\/Doubleday"},{"key":"80_CR17","volume-title":"Understanding cultural differences","author":"ET Hall","year":"1990","unstructured":"Hall, E. T., & Hall, M. R. (1990). Understanding cultural differences. Intercultural Press"},{"key":"80_CR18","first-page":"223","volume-title":"Identity: Community, Culture, Difference","author":"S Hall","year":"1990","unstructured":"Hall, S. (1990). Cultural Identity and Diaspora, in Rutherford, Jonathan (1990), \u201cCultural identity and diaspora.\u201d In J. Rutherford (Ed.), Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. (pp. 223\u2013237). Lawrence and Wishart"},{"key":"80_CR19","first-page":"69","volume-title":"Global encounters: media and cultural transformation","author":"S Hjarvard","year":"2002","unstructured":"Hjarvard, S. (2002). Mediated encounters. An essay on the role of communication media in the creation of trust in the \u2018Global Metropolis.\u2019 In G. Stald & T. Tufte (Eds.), Global encounters: media and cultural transformation. (pp. 69\u201384). University of Luton Press"},{"key":"80_CR20","volume-title":"Cultures and organizations: Software of the mind","author":"G Hofstede","year":"2010","unstructured":"Hofstede, G., Hofstede, G. J., & Minkov, M. (2010). Cultures and organizations: Software of the mind. McGraw-Hill"},{"key":"80_CR21","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.4135\/9781446269107","volume-title":"Intercultural communication and ideology","author":"A Holliday","year":"2011","unstructured":"Holliday, A. (2011). Intercultural communication and ideology. Sage"},{"key":"80_CR22","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"108","DOI":"10.4018\/978-1-59904-310-4.ch008","volume-title":"Information technology ethics: cultural perspectives","author":"S Hongladarom","year":"2007","unstructured":"Hongladarom, S. (2007). Analysis and justification of privacy from a Buddhist perspective. In S. Hongladarom & C. Ess (Eds.), Information technology ethics: cultural perspectives. (pp. 108\u2013122). Idear Group Reference"},{"key":"80_CR23","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Hongladarom, S. (2016). Intercultural information ethics: a pragmatic consideration. In B. Jared & K. Matthew (Eds.) Information cultures in the digital age: a festschrift in honor of Rafael Capurro. Springer, pp. 191\u2013206","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-658-14681-8_11"},{"issue":"2","key":"80_CR24","first-page":"287","volume":"12","author":"TT Lennerfors","year":"2015","unstructured":"Lennerfors, T. T. (2015). The confucian ethics of Junzi in contemporary light capitalism. Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies, 12(2), 287\u2013308","journal-title":"Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies"},{"key":"80_CR25","volume-title":"Ethics in engineering","author":"TT Lennerfors","year":"2019","unstructured":"Lennerfors, T. T. (2019). Ethics in engineering. Studentlitteratur"},{"key":"80_CR26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-3-319-59027-1","volume-title":"Tetsugaku companion to Japanese ethics and technology","author":"TT Lennerfors","year":"2019","unstructured":"Lennerfors, T. T., & Murata, K. (2019). Tetsugaku companion to Japanese ethics and technology. Springer Verlag"},{"key":"80_CR27","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"7","DOI":"10.1007\/s10676-005-0456-y","volume":"7","author":"YH Lu\u00a8","year":"2005","unstructured":"Lu\u00a8, Y. H. (2005). Privacy and data privacy issues in contemporary China. Ethics and Information Technology, 7, 7\u201315","journal-title":"Ethics and Information Technology"},{"issue":"3","key":"80_CR28","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"293","DOI":"10.1177\/1470595818793449","volume":"18","author":"J L\u00e5ngstedt","year":"2018","unstructured":"L\u00e5ngstedt, J. (2018). Culture, an excuse?\u2014A critical analysis of essentialist assumptions in cross-cultural management research and practice. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 18(3), 293\u2013308","journal-title":"International Journal of Cross Cultural Management"},{"issue":"2","key":"80_CR29","first-page":"81","volume":"37","author":"T Majima","year":"2017","unstructured":"Majima, T., Udagawa, M., Yotsumoto, M., & Lennerfors, T. T. (2017). Green IT did not take place: the translation of environmentally friendly IT in Japan. Journal of Information and Management, 37(2), 81\u201396","journal-title":"Journal of Information and Management"},{"key":"80_CR30","volume-title":"Ethics embodied: rethinking selfhood through continental, Japanese, and feminist philosophies","author":"E McCarthy","year":"2010","unstructured":"McCarthy, E. (2010). Ethics embodied: rethinking selfhood through continental, Japanese, and feminist philosophies. Lexington Books"},{"issue":"4","key":"80_CR31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"24","DOI":"10.1093\/screen\/18.4.24","volume":"18","author":"J-A Miller","year":"1977","unstructured":"Miller, J.-A. (1977). Suture (elements of the logic of the signifier). Screen, 18(4), 24\u201334","journal-title":"Screen"},{"issue":"3","key":"80_CR32","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"183","DOI":"10.1108\/JICES-12-2016-0047","volume":"15","author":"K Murata","year":"2017","unstructured":"Murata, K., Adams, A. A., & Lara Palma, A. M. (2017). Following Snowden: a cross-cultural study on the social impact of Snowden\u2019s revelations. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 15(3), 183\u2013196","journal-title":"Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society"},{"issue":"3","key":"80_CR33","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"129","DOI":"10.1016\/j.iedeen.2019.07.003","volume":"25","author":"K Murata","year":"2019","unstructured":"Murata, K., Arias-Oliva, M., & Pelegr\u00edn-Borondo, J. (2019). Cross-cultural study about cyborg market acceptance: Japan versus Spain. European Research on Management and Business Economics, 25(3), 129\u2013137","journal-title":"European Research on Management and Business Economics"},{"issue":"3","key":"80_CR34","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"213","DOI":"10.1108\/JICES-08-2016-0025","volume":"15","author":"K Murata","year":"2017","unstructured":"Murata, K., Fukuta, Y., Adams, A. A., & Dang, R. (2017). How Snowden\u2019s revelations have influenced youngsters\u2019 attitude and behaviour in the PRC and Taiwan. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 15(3), 213\u2013231","journal-title":"Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society"},{"issue":"3","key":"80_CR35","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"197","DOI":"10.1108\/JICES-08-2016-0026","volume":"15","author":"K Murata","year":"2017","unstructured":"Murata, K., Fukuta, Y., Orito, Y., & Adams, A. A. (2017). Few youngsters would follow Snowden\u2019s lead in Japan. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 15(3), 197\u2013212","journal-title":"Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society"},{"issue":"3","key":"80_CR36","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"233","DOI":"10.1108\/14779960810916237","volume":"6","author":"K Murata","year":"2008","unstructured":"Murata, K., & Orito, Y. (2008). Rethinking the concept of the right to information privacy: a Japanese perspective. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 6(3), 233\u2013245","journal-title":"Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society"},{"key":"80_CR37","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"20","DOI":"10.29173\/irie295","volume":"13","author":"K Murayama","year":"2010","unstructured":"Murayama, K., Lennerfors, T. T., & Murata, K. (2010). Winny and the Pirate Bay: a comparative analysis of P2P software usage in Japan and Sweden from a socio-cultural perspective. International Review of Information Ethics, 13, 20\u201325","journal-title":"International Review of Information Ethics"},{"issue":"1","key":"80_CR38","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"101","DOI":"10.1177\/1470595815572171","volume":"15","author":"G Nathan","year":"2015","unstructured":"Nathan, G. (2015). A non-essentialist model of culture: implications of identity, agency and structure within multinational\/multicultural organizations. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 15(1), 101\u2013124. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1470595815572171","journal-title":"International Journal of Cross Cultural Management"},{"key":"80_CR39","unstructured":"Palm, E. (2016). What is the critical role of intercultural information ethics? In Ethics and communication: global perspectives. In Collste, G. (Ed.) (pp. 181\u2013195). Rowman & Littlefield International"},{"key":"80_CR40","unstructured":"Rushton, R. 2017. Suture and Gus Van Sant\u2019s Milk, in Piotrowska, Agnieszka and Tyrer, Ben. Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable: From culture to the clinic (pp. 203-216). Taylor and Francis"},{"key":"80_CR41","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.2979\/SAX.2005.-.17.1","volume":"17","author":"D Scott","year":"2005","unstructured":"Scott, D. (2005). Stuart Hall\u2019s ethics. Small Axe, 17, 1\u201316","journal-title":"Small Axe"},{"key":"80_CR42","volume-title":"The subject of semiotics","author":"K Silverman","year":"1983","unstructured":"Silverman, K. (1983). The subject of semiotics. Oxford Univ. Press"},{"key":"80_CR43","volume-title":"The illusion of collectivism: The misconception in Nihonjinron and its origins","author":"Y Takano","year":"2008","unstructured":"Takano, Y. (2008). The illusion of collectivism: The misconception in Nihonjinron and its origins. Shinyosha (in Japanese)"},{"key":"80_CR44","volume-title":"Religious foundations of economic behaviour in Japan","author":"J Teranishi","year":"2014","unstructured":"Teranishi, J. (2014). Religious foundations of economic behaviour in Japan. Keisoshobo (in Japanese)"},{"key":"80_CR45","first-page":"56","volume-title":"Handbook of qualitative research methods for international business","author":"R Westwood","year":"2004","unstructured":"Westwood, R. (2004). Towards a postcolonial research paradigm in international business and comparative management. In R. Marschan-Piekkari & C. Welch (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research methods for international business. (pp. 56\u201383). Edward Elgar"},{"issue":"3","key":"80_CR46","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"50","DOI":"10.1145\/1713066.1713070","volume":"39","author":"PH Wong","year":"2009","unstructured":"Wong, P. H. (2009). What should we share?: Understanding the aim of intercultural information ethics. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 39(3), 50\u201358","journal-title":"ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society"},{"key":"80_CR47","volume-title":"Wrong assumptions about Japanese Culture: The illusion of collectivist culture","author":"T Yamagishi","year":"2010","unstructured":"Yamagishi, T. (2010). Wrong assumptions about Japanese Culture: The illusion of collectivist culture. Chikumashobo (in Japanese)"},{"key":"80_CR48","volume-title":"The fright of real tears: Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski between theory and post-theory","author":"S \u017di\u017eek","year":"2001","unstructured":"\u017di\u017eek, S. (2001). The fright of real tears: Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski between theory and post-theory. British Film Institute"},{"key":"80_CR49","unstructured":"\u017di\u017eek, S. (2012). \u201cSuture\u201d, Forty Years Later, in Hallward, P. & Peden, K. Concept and Form, Volume Two. Interviews and essays on the Cahiers pour l\u2019Analyse, Verso, pp. 147\u2013168."}],"container-title":["The Review of Socionetwork Strategies"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s12626-021-00080-x.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12626-021-00080-x\/fulltext.html","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/s12626-021-00080-x.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,28]],"date-time":"2024-08-28T18:45:26Z","timestamp":1724870726000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/s12626-021-00080-x"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,19]]},"references-count":49,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2021,5]]}},"alternative-id":["80"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s12626-021-00080-x","relation":{},"ISSN":["2523-3173","1867-3236"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2523-3173","type":"print"},{"value":"1867-3236","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,19]]},"assertion":[{"value":"4 November 2020","order":1,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"24 March 2021","order":2,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"19 April 2021","order":3,"name":"first_online","label":"First Online","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}}]}}