[Commlist] New Book: Examining the Use of Online Social Networks by Graduate Students

My book titled *“Examining the Use of Online Social Networks by Korean 
Graduate Students: Navigating Intercultural Academic Experiences” *was 
published in 20 May 2019:

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*https://www.routledge.com/Examining-the-Use-of-Online-Social-Networks-by-Korean-Graduate-Students/Oh/p/book/9780367186227*

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It was also in the series of “/Routledge Research in Education 
<https://www.routledge.com/series/SE0393>/.”

Description:

This book examines how former, current, and prospective Korean graduate 
students navigate American universities, especially with regard to the 
student-advisor relationship. Based on extensive case study research 
conducted around /Vivid Journal/—an online social network for many 
domestic and international Korean graduate students—this volume 
highlights issues regarding access to various academic capitals (i.e., 
scholarship, publishing, participation in academic research), successful 
completion of graduate degrees, and academic or non-academic employment 
opportunities upon graduation. Through a rigorous analysis of members’ 
posting behavior, interaction, and role assignments, this book offers a 
new conceptual framework for online and social support networks, 
especially around the shaping and mediation of international 
student-advisor relationships. To that end, some new concepts, such as 
/mediated accounts/, communicative agents, and communicative guidersand 
the subgroups (/institutional/, /academic/, /cultural/, and /social 
guiders/), are introduced.

Indeed, /Examining the Use of Online Social Networks/ is about the 
making of /mediated accounts/ among the current, former, and prospective 
Korean graduate students of American universities through their online 
communications at the ‘back stage’ (the /Vivid Journal/ social network) 
with the aim of helping its initial posters not only meet their academic 
concerns, but also build better working relationships with their 
American university academic advisors in the future at the ‘front 
stage’—i.e., the real-world situations.


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