Social media usage and acculturation: A test with Hispanics in the U.S.

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Highlights：

• Social media usage affects Hispanics’ acculturation into the American society.

• Use of social media in English and Spanish leads to different effects.

• Use of English social media helps Hispanics assimilate to the American culture.

• Use of Spanish social media reinforces Hispanics’ ethnic cultural identification.

• Hispanics with various demographic characteristics use social media differently.

摘要

•Social media usage affects Hispanics’ acculturation into the American society.•Use of social media in English and Spanish leads to different effects.•Use of English social media helps Hispanics assimilate to the American culture.•Use of Spanish social media reinforces Hispanics’ ethnic cultural identification.•Hispanics with various demographic characteristics use social media differently.

论文关键词：Acculturation,Social media,Spanish social media,Hispanic,Hispanic culture

论文评审过程：Available online 29 December 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.018