【作者】 李婷；

【导师】 黄也平；

【作者基本信息】 吉林大学 ， 传播学， 2018， 硕士

【摘要】 文化适应是一种社会、心理和文化变化的过程,它源于文化之间的交融。文化适应并不仅仅表现在对于所在国家主流文化的适应,同时也体现在对源文化的保持与发展。对于留学生而言,文化适应这一过程对他们在所在国家的身心健康,学习,以及社会生活有着非常重要的影响。本论文探索了社交媒体对于在美留学生文化适应的过程中扮演的角色。已有的研究中,有文章运用涵化理论研究了大众媒介如电视节目如何文化适应过程中起作用。但是,目前极少有文章涉及到社交媒体在文化适应中扮演的角色。本次研究将社交媒体视为文化适应的一个新的影响来源。本次研究认为,社交媒体在重新塑造国外旅居者的社会以及文化身份认知有着重要的作用。涵化理论(Cultivation Theory)以及文化适应理论(Acculturation Theory)被用来构建本论文的理论框架,来检验社交媒体在留学生文化适应过程中的影响。本论文运用了调查问卷的方式来进行研究。首先,采用文献研究来收集尽可能多和全面的信息,来支撑与构建调查变量。第二步,文献研究得到的调查测量办法来创建调查问卷,在美国中西部一个拥有大约2000国际学生的公立大学发放问卷,以此来检验通过文献研究构建的理论的可靠性。问卷包括三个部分。第一部分是社交媒体的使用强度;第二部分是文化适应的程度;第三部分是其他影响因素,包括年龄,性别,受教育程度。调查结果发现社交媒体与文化适应之间有着显著的线性相关性,随着社交媒体使用程度的提高,文化适应程度也相应的提高。源文化身份认同和当地文化身份认同相互之间有促进作用。但是并没有足够的数据证实年龄,性别,受教育程度在文化适应过程中起到任何明显的影响。更多还原

【Abstract】 This paper explored the role social medias played in the process of acculturation of international students who are currently studying in American university.There are already several articles using cultivation theory demonstrated the effect of mass media such as television programs on the acculturation process.However,few articles explore the cultivation effects of social media on the acculturation process.This paper considers social medias a new source for people to shape their cognition of reality and adapts cultivation theory into examining the effects of the social media on the process of acculturation.The process of this study is reviewing relevant literature and then the measurements and factors gathered from the literature review were used to create a survey.This survey was conducted by an online questionnaire website called Qualtric and then distributed to a big mid-western university.This survey was composed of three section including the involvement of social media,acculturation level and the demographics.The study found that,social media usage and acculturation level are significantly correlated with each in a positive way,which supported our hypothesis.The study also found that international students’ heritage cultural identity and host cultural identity are significantly and positively correlated with each other.In addition,demographics didn’t make any difference in the acculturation process.更多还原