TY - BOOK ID - 134495322 TI - Immigration and social capital in the age of social media : American social institutions and a Korean-American women's online community PY - 2016 SN - 149851927X 9781498519274 9781498519267 1498519261 PB - Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, DB - UniCat KW - Koreans KW - Korean American women KW - Social institutions KW - Social networks KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Social networks. KW - United States KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134495322 AB - In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. In this book, Oh takes the online female Korean-American ""MissyUSA"" community under consideration to investigate the ways in which one group of immigrants shares information about the rules of American social institutions and works together to navigate their new society. ER -