Master's Thesis Presentation

The Americanization of the Contemporary World Cultures through Social Media

Introducation
The American culture has a heavy impact on the contemporary world cultures; it is so dominant and available everywhere on Earth. It has come to characterize what is up to the minute. Social media paved the way for the American culture to be internationally aped and diffused at the detriment of native cultures. It is noticed that one of the categories of which influenced most is EFL learners.

Research Questions

• Are the contemporary world cultures being Americanized?
• Did social media pave the way for the Americanization of the contemporary world cultures?

Objectives

• Determine the meaning and impact of Americanization.
• Determine the role of social media in the Americanization.
• Make Master Two EFL learners aware of the damages of Americanization.
• Make them distinguish between Americanization and Globalization.

Aims

• We aim to:
• Encourage EFL learners at Abbass Laghrour University to deal with up to date cultural topics.
• Motivate them to think about how they can make good use of the new technology while protecting their cultural identities.

The Choice of The Method
Descriptive Approach: we aimed to describe an actual situation involving data gathering that describes the investigated event, orgnizes, tabulates, depicts, and describes the data collection.

The Choice of the Method

• Qualitaive: The Instagram accounts represent the non-verbal data for which the qualitative method was needed.
• Quantitative: The statistical results represented by the students' questionnaire required the quantitative method

Data Gathering Tools

• Observation: the most suitable tool for gathering the nonverbal data from the videos and photos taken from Instagram accounts.
• Students’ Questionnaire: For the sake of exploring their perspectives on the topic of the study, and compare the results of the observation with the results of the questionnaire.

Population

• Instagram: Nine Instagram accounts chosen depending on a judgmental sampling.
• Students: 30 Master Two students were chosen randomly out of approximately 68 students.

Structure

Chapter One

Chapter Two (The Literature Review)

• Section One: An Overview on the Americanization.
• Section Two: An Overview on Social Media and the Relationship between both section.

Chapter Three (data analysis and findings)

• Section One: Analysis and findings of Instgram accounts.
• Section Two: Analysis and Findings of Students questionnaire.

Instagram

#Children

#Teenagers #Muslim

The Americanization of the Korean Food 

The Impact of Fast Food/ McDonalds 

How American culture affects EFL learners

The way of expanding Americanization among Master Two EFL Lerners

The expansion of the American culture through social media

Master Two EFL Learner's Perspective View about Instagram

Conclusion
To be sure, Americanization is one of the most complicated concepts of the history of the modern cultural criticism, and, the new ways of communication represented by social media are considered to be a solid foundation for the transformation of world cultures.

Recommendtions

• We recommend teachers to deal with an up to dated cultural topics instead of teaching old cultural and historical ones only.
• We recommend EFL learners to be aware of the side damages of the cultural imperialism, especially when it comes to the cultural identity.

Recommendtions

• We also recommend them to protect their native culture, and cultural identity while obtaining new cultural traditions.
• We recommend that everyone should be aware of the difference between Americanization and Globalization.

Suggestions

• We suggest that future researches and studies will be made on this topic; because this is just an introductory research for very vast field.

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