Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.-Mark Twain This dissertation can bear only my name as a matter of record, but there are several individuals I would like to thank for their contributions to its completion. I am indebted first of all to Dr. Young Yun Kim, whose knowledge and guidance were instrumental to the study's conception and design. In addition to being an internationally-recognized scholar of intercultural communication, she is an immediate and nurturing mentor and friend. I also owe a debt to my committee members-Drs.
This message-system and cultivation analysis investigated the influence of local news on the host receptivity of native-born ''Plainstown'' residents toward immigrants. The messagesystem analysis revealed that regional television and newspaper immigration coverage was more pessimistic, while local newspaper immigration coverage was more optimistic. A cultivation analysis confirmed that attention to pessimistic coverage interacted with conversations about immigration to reduce host receptivity. This research contributes to the study of cross-cultural adaptation by constructing and validating a measure of Y. Y. Kim's (2001) concept of host receptivity. By demonstrating that second-order cultivation is the product of on-line cognitive processes, this research provided additional validation of Shrum's (2004) online model of second-order cultivation. Findings suggest that optimistic immigration news frames may facilitate host receptivity.
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