Earlier studies have provided evidence for the importance of mass media in the acculturation process of immigrants. The current study intends to further investigate acculturation by exploring the influential factors in immigrants mass communication activities.
A survey has been conducted among 208 participants from diverse ethnic backgrounds in the Baton Rouge area. Having examined the mass media and Internet consumption of the respondents, this study finds that psychological factors, not demographic backgrounds, are the primary influential variables in predicting immigrants media use patterns.
According to this study, respondents stronger adaptive personality and acculturation motivation would lead to more consumption of host mass media and English Internet and, thus, promote immigrants acculturation.
On the whole, this study casts light on the importance of psychological factors in immigrants acculturation process from the aspect of mass communication.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LSU/oai:etd.lsu.edu:etd-07122007-153118 |
| Date | 23 July 2007 |
| Creators | Zhang, Suping |
| Contributors | Denis Wu, Jinx Broussard, Andrea Miller |
| Publisher | LSU |
| Source Sets | Louisiana State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-07122007-153118/ |
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