TY - GEN
T1 - Babel or great wall
T2 - 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2012
AU - Zhang, Shaoke
AU - Jiang, Hao
AU - Carroll, John M.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We investigated how social media support the acculturation process for an expatriate group: Chinese students in the United States. We interviewed 20 participants and found that 1) students extensively used Chinese social media to maintain their original self, especially through social bonding and information surveillance activities, while facing culture shock; 2) social media were also critical in helping students assimilate into their new (American) culture, through affordances for scaffolding, bridging, and surveillance; 3) the use of social media across the acculturation process is evolving in the context of the changing ecology of social media. This study expands existing HCI work on inter-cultural communication and collaboration activities toward consideration of acculturation strategies, online support for identity, and designing for individual development.
AB - We investigated how social media support the acculturation process for an expatriate group: Chinese students in the United States. We interviewed 20 participants and found that 1) students extensively used Chinese social media to maintain their original self, especially through social bonding and information surveillance activities, while facing culture shock; 2) social media were also critical in helping students assimilate into their new (American) culture, through affordances for scaffolding, bridging, and surveillance; 3) the use of social media across the acculturation process is evolving in the context of the changing ecology of social media. This study expands existing HCI work on inter-cultural communication and collaboration activities toward consideration of acculturation strategies, online support for identity, and designing for individual development.
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U2 - 10.1145/2379057.2379067
DO - 10.1145/2379057.2379067
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869044236
SN - 9781450314978
T3 - SIGDOC'12 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
SP - 37
EP - 45
BT - SIGDOC'12 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Y2 - 3 October 2012 through 5 October 2012
ER -