Media and multiple identities: Robert E. Park as precursor to intercultural communication theory and research

Subtil, Filipa; Garcia, José Luís de Oliveira; Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy

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Subtil, Filipa

Garcia, José Luís de Oliveira

Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy

Abstract(s)

Robert E. Park’s early study of foreign-language newspapers in urban centers hosting multiple immigrant groups deserves recognition as an important precursor to several current assumptions within intercultural communication, especially the move away from equating cultures with nations, and the possibility of simultaneously holding multiple identities. Park’s research on the media’s influence on identity construction contains theoretical contributions that remain highly relevant to a world increasingly configured by global media: in particular, on accepting complexity and the fact that individuals may and do simultaneously hold multiple and conflicting identities. Hence, beyond the nation-state, the appropriate unit of analysis became the ethnic group.

Keywords

Robert E. Park (1864-1944) Foreign-language newspapers Immigrant groups Intercultural communication Multiple identities

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/21764

Citation

Subtil, F., Garcia, J. L. & Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (2024). Media and multiple identities: Robert E. Park as precursor to intercultural communication theory and research. In M. Steppat & S.J. Kulich (eds.). Historical intersections of intercultural studies: Tracing genealogies, trajectories, diversifications. (Vol.11, pp.335-360), Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.