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A study of the impact of organizational communication networks and personal communication technology uses on Korean immigrants’ intercultural development
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A study of the impact of organizational communication networks and personal communication technology uses on Korean immigrants’ intercultural development
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Lee
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Sun Kyong
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1978-
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Sun Kyong Lee
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James E
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Craig R
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Jennifer
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Barnett
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George
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George Barnett
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2013
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Based on the assumption that communication networks constitute culture, a study was conducted on the impact of organizational communication networks and personal communication technologies (PCTs) use on Korean immigrants’ intercultural development. The research has found that Korean immigrants’ structural positions within their ethnic church communication networks and diversity of their social network have significant influences on their intercultural development, of which the process is facilitated by PCT usage with distinctive ties. A theoretical model of immigrant intercultural development was suggested based on the existing theories of cross-cultural adaptation (Kim, 2001), cultural convergence (Barnett & Kincaid, 1983), and intercultural communication networks (Smith, 1999; Yum, 1988) with a communication-centered view on social networks. The current study first examined the structural composition of Korean immigrants’ communication networks in their ethnic church community, which became the main sources of their social capital, and then measured the effect of their network characteristics (i.e., size, diversity, and centrality) on individuals’ ethnorelative and ethnocentric development (for RQ1 and its related six hypotheses). An organizational member survey of a sample Korean immigrant church was used to construct the whole network of the organization and to analyze the relationships between major constructs (i.e., social capital, PCTs use, and intercultural development). Further, how those network characteristics are related to Korean immigrants’ PCTs use for contacting distinctive social ties (i.e., coethnic vs. host, strong vs. weak ties) were examined (for RQ2 and its four subsidiary questions). Last, this study examined how Korean immigrants’ social capital embedded in their communication networks and PCT usage affect their intercultural development together (i.e., RQ3) via hierarchical multiple regression modeling. As a result of data analyses, two path models for the process of intercultural development were proposed; PCTs use for coethnic strong ties appears to increase Korean immigrant’s network centrality within the ethnic religious community, which leads to ethnocentric development. By contrast, PCTs use for host ties (both strong and weak) seems to increase network diversity, which leads to ethnorelative development.
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Communication, Information and Library Studies
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Interpersonal communication and culture--United States
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Korean Americans--Social networks
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Korean American churches
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ix, 162 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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by Sun Kyong Lee
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Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--United States
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Koreans--United States
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000068903
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ETD doctoral
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Sun Kyong
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2013-04-15 00:57:44
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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