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Cultural Reflections in Qatari Government Websites

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Abstract

Localizing a website by incorporating culturally appropriate design features arguably helps it become more functional and usable for its users. This paper seeks to explore cultural reflections in government websites from Qatar using the influential cultural model of Geert Hofstede. Through using systematic content analysis, the examination focused on Web design elements which have been proven to be good indicators of preferences within cultural groups. The results showed that Arab culture which Qatar belongs to is somewhat reflected in the design of Qatari websites.

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Metadaten
Titel
Cultural Reflections in Qatari Government Websites
verfasst von
Nouf Khashman
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20889-3_6

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