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+ Social Media’s Impact on Intercultural Adaptation Mubarak Hayatu-Deen

Social media's impact on intercultural adaptation

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Social Media’s Impact on Intercultural AdaptationMubarak Hayatu-Deen

+Research Objective

■ To examine the usage of social media by international students and how this utilization of social media impacts an individual’s intercultural adaptation process.

+What is Intercultural Adaptation?

■ Defined as, “ the process of promoting understanding through interaction to increase the level of fitness so that the demands of a new cultural environment can be met”.

+Methodology

■ Online survey (10 questions) / quantitative approach■ # of respondents: 42■ 23 countries represented:

■ Nigeria, America, Singapore, India, Kenya, China, Romania, South Korea, Taiwan, Somalia, Burkina Faso, Denmark, England, Cameroon, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Uganda, Greece, Ghana, Japan, Sweden, Spain, France

+Questions used in survey

1. What is your gender?2. What is your age?3. Which of the following

social media tools do you use?

4. How often do you use these social networking sites?

5. Do you use social media websites to connect with people outside of your host country?

6. What is your nationality?

7. How long have you been outside of your home country?

8. Has social media helped you become more familiar with your host country’s culture?

9. Which of the following problems did you face when making the transition from your home country to your host country?

10. Did access to social media help alleviate these problems?

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+Sources

R. Sawyer & G. M. Chen. The Impact of New Social Media on Intercultural Adaptation. Intercultural Communication Studies, 2011.

Nielssen, Casper. Social Media Meets Intercultural Communication. Communication Studies, 2012. Chen, Guo-Ming. The Impact of New Media on Intercultural Communication in Global Context. University of Rhode

Island, 2012.Cai, Deborah & Rodriquez, José. Adjusting to Cultural Differences: The Intercultural Adaptation Model. Intercultural

Communication Studies, 1997. Sumer, Seda. International Student’s Psychological and Sociocultural Adaptation in the United States. Georgia State

University, 2009.

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