Journal article
Making American Friends: The Effects of Musical Tastes and English Proficiency on Chinese International Students' Social Networks in the United States
Journal of intercultural communication research, v 48(1), pp 4-20
02 Jan 2019
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between Chinese international students' social networks in the United States and their musical tastes. Based on concept of homophily, this study used a self-reported Social Network Analysis (SNA) survey to examine whether sharing similar musical tastes affected Chinese international students' relationship, their musical tastes, and music consumption. The results showed that having high musical taste similarity predicted closer relationship between respondents and their alters, and higher likelihood of new music consumption. This study also found that frequent American English-language songs listeners were more likely to have Americans in their social network than less-frequent American English-language songs listeners.
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Details
- Title
- Making American Friends: The Effects of Musical Tastes and English Proficiency on Chinese International Students' Social Networks in the United States
- Creators
- Fei Jia - Drexel UniversityEmmanuel Koku - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of intercultural communication research, v 48(1), pp 4-20
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Communication
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85057803472
- Other Identifier
- 991019173574904721