BT Technology Journal
Identity management: multiple presentations of self in facebook
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships
Computers in Human Behavior
Student socialization in the age of facebook
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Microblogging after a major disaster in China: a case study of the 2010 Yushu earthquake
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Virtual gifts and guanxi: supporting social exchange in a chinese online community
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Faceted identity, faceted lives: social and technical issues with being yourself online
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Imagined communities: awareness, information sharing, and privacy on the facebook
PET'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
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We investigated how social media support the acculturation process for an expatriate group: Chinese students in the United States. We interviewed 20 participants and found that 1) students extensively used Chinese social media to maintain their original self, especially through social bonding and information surveillance activities, while facing culture shock; 2) social media were also critical in helping students assimilate into their new (American) culture, through affordances for scaffolding, bridging, and surveillance; 3) the use of social media across the acculturation process is evolving in the context of the changing ecology of social media. This study expands existing HCI work on inter-cultural communication and collaboration activities toward consideration of acculturation strategies, online support for identity, and designing for individual development.