Cyber Divided: How Taiwanese International Students Make Identity Boundaries within Social Network Sites

Autor/in	Chen, Kenneth Han
Titel	Cyber Divided: How Taiwanese International Students Make Identity Boundaries within Social Network Sites
Quelle	In: Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 14 (2022) 2, S.11-25 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2151-0393
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Foreign Students; Social Networks; Student Characteristics; Sense of Community; Computer Mediated Communication; Group Discussion; Identification (Psychology); Interpersonal Relationship; Group Dynamics; Barriers; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Computerkonferenz; Gruppendiskussion; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Gruppendynamik
Abstract	Cyberspace has become a fixture of contemporary higher education institutions. When facing challenges seeking admission to a foreign university, international students often resort to online resources for guidance. By engaging in these online activities, international students develop a sense of community and identity. Despite recent advancement, existing studies on digital space and international students often fail to address the contentious nature of the community-forming process. Using digital ethnography and interviews, I studied an online forum for Taiwanese international students, STUDYABROAD, to delineate how social networking sites (SNSs) help reinforce group boundaries relating to different class traits and individual characteristics. International students find support and reassurance by socializing with netizen members and learning essential knowledge and information, but they also learn to distinguish different personalities and associate with them based on how they are perceived. By describing how Taiwanese students interpret online forums and develop norms around those communities, this study contributes to a growing strand of research into socialization of the international online community. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01