The Role of Social Media on Intercultural Communication Competences

Monika, Winda and Nasution, Arbi Haza and Nasution, Salhazan (2020) The Role of Social Media on Intercultural Communication Competences. In: The Second International Conference on Social, Economy, Education and Humanity – (ICoSEEH), 05-07 September 2019, Pekanbaru, Riau.

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Abstract

Social media is hitting mainstream lately. Since the advancement of technology, it brings people to interact with multi cultures users. Regardless most of social media have all of communication features on their applications, a study figures out that people tend to use more than one social media for different needs. Social media is a powerful online tool that allows people to communicate, interact, get connected, share, express idea and thought and many more functionalities to carry out. In this study, we examine the role of five widely used social media on intercultural communication competences. We conducted a survey on international students of Kyoto University and Tsukuba University, Japan. We try to figure out the motivation of the people using each social media on intercultural communication. The result shows that most of the participants are on Facebook with a motivation to get to know more about their international friends and most of their International friends are already o n Facebook. It also shows that participants use social media with the following motivation: supporting social interaction, profiling, information sharing, and communication tools. Social media enhance participants communication competence in a way that communication among international friends goes effective, they adapt faster where social media assist them to get along very well with a strong tie, and finally, social media enhances their English reading skill

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	> Teknik Informatika
Depositing User:	Monika Winda Monika
Date Deposited:	19 May 2023 08:37
Last Modified:	19 May 2023 08:37
URI:	http://repository.uir.ac.id/id/eprint/21771

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