ABSTRACT. Studying in a foreign country provides an opportunity for students from diverse cultural backgrounds to develop an intercultural friendship between each other. In today's increasingly digitalized society, the use of social media cannot be detached from any communication context, including intercultural communication. Previous studies have examined the use of social media in various settings of intercultural communication. This study aims to examine the use of social media in intercultural friendship development among foreign students in Kocaeli University, Turkey. Applying qualitative method, six foreign students who represent four different cultural backgrounds were interviewed in this study. The interview tried to explore their subjective experiences of using social media to develop an intercultural friendship with other foreign students in their surroundings. The study reveals various similarities and differences of the pattern, evaluation, and impact of using social media in intercultural friendship development. The study concludes that the use of social media tends to enhance the intercultural friendship development. Keywords: social media, intercultural friendship development, foreign students Abstrak. Belajar di luar negeri memberikan kesempatan bagi siswa dari latar belakang
This paper concerns on analyzing social media as a new means of consumption and its impact on Indonesian Muslim women's consumption of Islamicfashion. Several analytical frameworks such as consumption,identity construction, and postmodern society are used to analyzethe issue. The analysis is mostly basedon literature resources. The analysis concludes that social media, considered as a new means ofconsumption, impact the Indonesia Muslim women's consumption of Islamic fashion in twointerconnected ways: 1. it becomes a space for the construction of variousidealized standards of how a fashionable Muslim woman can look like, and 2. it influences the way Indonesian Muslim women construct and present theiridentity as fashionable Muslim women. Both of these form their consumption on Islamic fashion items. Tulisan ini memaparkan analisis tentang media sosial sebagai sebuah alat konsumsi baru dan pengaruhnya terhadap pola konsumsi fashion Islami oleh wanita Muslim di Indonesia. Beberapa kerangka teori seperti konsumsi, konstruksi identitas, and masyarakat post-modern digunakan untuk menganalisis isu ini. Analisis dalam tulisan ini sebagian besar didasarkan pada studi literatur. Hasil analisis menyimpulkan bahwa media sosial, yang dapat dilihat sebagai sebuah alat konsumsi baru, mempengaruhi pola konsumsi fashion Islami oleh wanita Muslim di Indonesia dalam dua cara yang saling berhubungan: (1) media sosial menjadi sebuah ruang konstruksi berbagai macam standar yang dianggap ideal tentang penampilan wanita Muslim yang fashionable dan (2) media sosial mempengaruhi cara-cara wanita Muslim di Indonesia dalam mengkonstruksi dan mempresentasikan identitasnya sebagai wanita Muslim yang fashionable. Kedua hal ini membentuk pola konsumsi mereka terhadap fashion Islami.
to the qualitative textual content analysis, the posts from the two Instagram accounts are extracted using Python and then clustered using Infranodus to see the frequency and relations among the words that constitute the captions. These clusters are further analysed qualitatively to define important themes that would help us understand the communication orientations of the refugee communities as displayed on the two Instagram accounts.The result demonstrate difference in topic segmentation between the two Instagram accounts that reflect their communication orientations. The communication orientation of @vorindonesia tends to reflect the struggle of refugees in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the communication orientations of @helpforrefugees tends to reflect the resilience of refugees in Indonesia. The theoretical and practical implications of this research are also discussed.
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