Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Department
Communication
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
My Capstone Experience/Thesis project seeks to explore and examine the effects of Facebook on communication between American and international students. The use of social media as a means to communicate with others is increasing at an amazing rate. Facebook has become my generation’s favorite way to communicate with friends and family and “to Facebook” has unofficially become a verb that many college students will use. While social media, such as Facebook and Linked-In, may encourage American college students to communicate with international students beyond the classroom and campus, it seems that Facebook is on the way to becoming a substitute for face to face intercultural interactions. Whether it will enhance or diminish the extent and quality of intercultural communication is an important question to be studied.
Advisor(s) or Committee Chair
Dr. Larry Caillouet
Disciplines
Communication | International and Intercultural Communication | Interpersonal and Small Group Communication
Recommended Citation
Schaefer, Rebecca, "Exploring the Relationship between Facebook, Face-to-Face and Intercultural Communication" (2011). Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects. Paper 339.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses/339
Included in
International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Commons