A Place We Call "Home"--International Students in Virtual Context

Autor/in	Zhu, Zheng
Titel	A Place We Call "Home"--International Students in Virtual Context
Quelle	In: Journal of International Students, 2 (2012) 1, S.99-106 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2162-3104
Schlagwörter	Foreign Students; Asians; Computer Mediated Communication; Acculturation; Social Networks; Computer Simulation; State Universities; Ethnicity; Self Concept; Guidelines; Discourse Analysis; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Barriers; Student Attitudes; Student Adjustment; College Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Computerkonferenz; Akkulturation; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Staatliche Universität; Ethnizität; Selbstkonzept; Richtlinien; Diskursanalyse; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Schülerverhalten; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Collegestudent
Abstract	This paper examines how Chinese international students from a public land-grant university used online community to construct their cultural and ethnic identities. The author delves into the question of how online community enables these students to gain successful cultural assimilation. Extending on Baym's (2000) theoretical framework of online group communication and Mabry's (1997) critical discussion on constructing virtual identity, this paper offers crucial implications for how online communication forums, such as Bulletin Board System (BBS), evolve into cultural institutions as a result of affiliated members' increasing reliance on virtual social networking. The cyber communicative practice may deny participating members' access to authentic human communication and reinforce their negative self-labeling as an unassimilable or unfavorable "other" in a new cultural environment. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01