creator Rao, Xi creator Hemphill, Libby Through analyzing data from posts and about users, we describe how one particular Facebook group helps immigrants to the U.S. use social media to build a local community. As a preliminary study in intercultural communication through social media, we analyze one case, the Asian American Chicago Network (AACN) Facebook group, and uncover common topics users discuss and relationships between user tenure and various indicators of leadership and interaction. Our small finalized results from this preliminary project suggest that members of AACN likely use it (1) to build a professional network in the U.S.A., and (2) to reinforce and affirm their Asian culture and identities. Submitted by Libby Hemphill (lhemphil@iit.edu) on 2016-03-31T15:36:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rao Hemphill - 2016 - Asian American Chicago Network.pdf: 431248 bytes, checksum: 8506d164cc47bae5c0185daa8f0a9dcf (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-31T15:36:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rao Hemphill - 2016 - Asian American Chicago Network.pdf: 431248 bytes, checksum: 8506d164cc47bae5c0185daa8f0a9dcf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 National Science Foundation Award Number 1525662 Rao, X., & Hemphill, L. (2016). Asian American Chicago Network: A Case Study of Facebook Group Use By Immigrant Groups. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion (pp. 381–384). New York, NY, USA: ACM. http://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2869077 2016 2016 2016

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