Cross-cultural differences between American and Chinese college students on self-disclosure on social media

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2014-01-01
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Luo, Shan
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Raluca Cozma
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Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
The Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication offers two majors: Advertising (instructing students in applied communication for work in business or industry), and Journalism and Mass Communication (instructing students in various aspects of news and information organizing, writing, editing, and presentation on various topics and in various platforms). The Department of Agricultural Journalism was formed in 1905 in the Division of Agriculture. In 1925 its name was changed to the Department of Technical Journalism. In 1969 its name changed to the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications; from 1969 to 1989 the department was directed by all four colleges, and in 1989 was placed under the direction of the College of Sciences and Humanities (later College of Liberal Arts and Sciences). In 1998 its name was changed to the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication.
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The purpose of this study is to figure out the cross-cultural differences between American and Chinese college students in self-disclosure on social media sites. In particular, it will examine the influence of culture (especially collectivism and individualism dimensions) in both content (breath) and depth of self-disclosure on Facebook and Renren. Also, this study aims to ascertain gender differences in the influence of self-disclosure (breath and depth). This study applied collectivism versus individualism, one of Hofstede's cultural dimensions, and self-disclosure from social penetration model to examine the cultural differences between U.S. and Chinese college students in self-disclosure on social media sites. The results showed that there exits the nationality difference in self-disclosure's width and depth, implying that Chinese students self-disclose more in width and depth than American college students. Gender differences in self-disclosure's width and depth were also found and supported by previous study. Females prefer to self-disclose more in width and depth than males in SNSs. But the gender differences across nationality were only partially supported by the study; only U.S. females tend to self-disclose in more width than U.S. males.

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