Paper Info
Title
Internet-Usage Patterns of Immigrants in the Process of Intercultural Adaptation.
Abstract
This paper investigates Internet-usage patterns of immigrants, and seeks to identify the correlation between Internet use and intercultural adaptation. The study focuses on mainland Chinese immigrants in Singapore, and was conducted via a nationwide telephone survey. The results show that immigrants tend to change their preferences on Internet use to reflect their residence in the host country. In particular, the longer an immigrant resides in the host country, the less likely they would be to surf their original country's websites and the more likely they would be to communicate with local people via the Internet. More importantly, differences in Internet usage are found to have a significant impact on immigrants' intercultural adaptation. In an online environment, the social communication in the host country is a critical component that can facilitate or impede immigrants' successful adaptation to the host country, whereas ethnic social communication also plays a role at the initial stage of transition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1089/cyber.2009.0249
CYBERPSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
Field
DocType
Volume
Social psychology,Mainland,Psychology,Social communication,Immigration,Ethnic group,Residence,The Internet
Journal
13.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
2152-2715
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.80
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenli Chen1192.13