New social media have become increasingly popular components of our everyday lives in today’s globalizing society and cover almost the entire world today. They provide a context where people across the world can communicate, exchange messages, share knowledge, and interact with each other regardless of the distance that separates them. With its digital, convergent, interactive, hypertextual, and virtual nature, new media that nowadays transforming communication across cultures has brought human interaction and society to a highly interconnected and complex level.
[1] Guo-Ming Chen (South China University of Technology/University of Rhode Island) and Kai Zhang (University of Rhode Island, USA) “New media and cultural indentity in the global society, p. 795.
[2] Rebecca Sawyer “The impact of new social media on intercultural adaption”, p. 1.
[3] Berkley Center Undergraduate Fellows Report: “Bridging babel: new social media and interreligious and intercultural understanding”, p. 3, April 2010.
[4] Rebecca Sawyer “The impact of new social media on intercultural adaption”, p.2, p. 6.
[5] Rebecca Sawyer “The impact of new social media on intercultural adaption”, p. 7-8.
[6] Guo-Ming Chen (South China University of Technology/University of Rhode Island) and Kai Zhang (University of Rhode Island, USA) “New media and cultural indentity in the global society, p.
[7] 796Berkley Center Undergraduate Fellows Report: “Bridging babel: new social media and interreligious and intercultural understanding”, p.4.
[8] Journal of Intercaltural Communication Research “Intercultural new media studies: the next frontier in intercultural communication”, p 219-220, Vol.41, No. 3, November 2012.