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Homo Transmutans: Challenges of Educational Discourse in a Digital Multicultural Class
The focus of the study is on the transformation of individuals as communicators in a digital multicultural educational environment, a large-scale worldwide transition that was caused by pandemic (COVID-19) restrictions and the consequences of which have dramatically changed the formats and forms of communication in educational settings. Adapting to the virtual space of intercultural communication and the new, electronic, continuum of educational discourse, students, transforming themselves, transform the communicative community and their learning environment. The purpose of the study is to identify and conceptualize the signs of transformation of the multicultural class participants’ identities when studying under international programs in the virtual space of communication. The research methods involved participant longitudinal observation (during the period of 2020–2024: the pandemic and the immediate post-pandemic years), survey, discourse analysis, and conceptual and axiological analyses. Among the results reflecting the dynamics of communication transformation processes in digital intercultural education are the encapsulation of communication, transcultural communication, and the development of multimodal competency, to name but a few.
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