The Role of Social Media on Intercultural Communication Competences

Winda Monika, Arbi Haza Nasution, Salhazan Nasution

2019

Abstract

Social media is hitting mainstream lately. Since the advancement of technology, it brings people to interact with multi cultures users. Regardless most of social media have all of communication features on their applications, a study figures out that people tend to use more than one social media for different needs. Social media is a powerful online tool that allows people to communicate, interact, get connected, share, express idea and thought and many more functionalities to carry out. In this study, we examine the role of five widely used social media on intercultural communication competences. We conducted a survey on international students of Kyoto University and Tsukuba University, Japan. We try to figure out the motivation of the people using each social media on intercultural communication. The result shows that most of the participants are on Facebook with a motivation to get to know more about their international friends and most of their International friends are already on Facebook. It also shows that participants use social media with the following motivation: supporting social interaction, profiling, information sharing, and communication tools. Social media enhance participants communication competence in a way that communication among international friends goes effective, they adapt faster where social media assist them to get along very well with a strong tie, and finally, social media enhances their English reading skill.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Monika W., Nasution A. and Nasution S. (2019). The Role of Social Media on Intercultural Communication Competences.In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Social, Economy, Education and Humanity - Volume 1: ICoSEEH, ISBN 978-989-758-464-0, pages 483-491. DOI: 10.5220/0010105604830491

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icoseeh19,
author={Winda Monika and Arbi Haza Nasution and Salhazan Nasution},
title={The Role of Social Media on Intercultural Communication Competences},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Social, Economy, Education and Humanity - Volume 1: ICoSEEH,},
year={2019},
pages={483-491},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010105604830491},
isbn={978-989-758-464-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Social, Economy, Education and Humanity - Volume 1: ICoSEEH,
TI - The Role of Social Media on Intercultural Communication Competences
SN - 978-989-758-464-0
AU - Monika W.
AU - Nasution A.
AU - Nasution S.
PY - 2019
SP - 483
EP - 491
DO - 10.5220/0010105604830491