Research critique

1. What am I missing here?

• Immigrant acculturation -> studying international students' college adjustments?
• The study starts off by saying that intercultural communication is important especially for understanding how immigrants acculturate to foreign socities, but instead of studying immigrants or acculturation, it studies international students' college adjustments... 

2. U&G-related issues

• "Old wine in new bottle?"
• "To find out what's going on" -> "To find out what's going on in China"
• "To make friends" -> "To make Korean friends"
• "To learn about current issues" -> "To learn about current issues in Korea"

• "What's the contribution?" (e.g., Any reason to believe these would be different among international students when it comes to Internet use?)
• "To pass the time when bored"
• "To be entertained"
• "To find information related to class assignments"

3. Discussion points from the paper: 

• "The internet does not uniformly facilitate or impede international students' adaptation, but rather serve as an additional means by which they can pursue different goals that may or may not contribute to a smoother transition" 
• "Apparently, when international students' media use is heavily gravitated toward their home country, it hinders their adaptation to the new environment, posing greater emotional challenges"
• "Online communication with existing friends (through IM) improved adolescents' subjective well-being, while talk with strangers (through chat in a public chat room) had no significant effect"

Proper(?) reaction: