ABSTRACT In Thailand, older individuals or ‘Phu Yai’ are people with higher social status and power as compared to younger people or ‘Phu Noi’ (Komolsevin & Knutson, 2010). In the realm of education, teachers are considered Phu Yai while students are considered Phu Noi. This concept reinforces Hofstede’s (1991) major finding on Thailand being categorized as a high power-distance culture. The current study examines students’ perspective of the effect of student–teacher Facebook interactions on intercultural communication concepts such as power distance and submission to authority within the Thai student–teacher relationship. Questionnaires were administered to 353 students (N = 353) at a large international university in Thailand. The study found that social media use between Thai students and teachers influence how students view the face-to-face power dynamics between them and their teachers. Specifically, the more students and teachers interact on Facebook, the lower students perceive the power distance between them and their teachers.

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调查泰国学生与教师 Facebook 互动的影响

摘要在泰国，与年轻人或“Phu Noi”相比，老年人或“Phu Yai”是具有更高社会地位和权力的人（Komolsevin & Knutson，2010）。在教育领域，教师被视为 Phu Yai，而学生则被视为 Phu Noi。这一概念强化了 Hofstede (1991) 关于泰国被归类为高权力距离文化的主要发现。目前的研究考察了学生对师生 Facebook 互动对跨文化交流概念的影响的观点，例如泰国师生关系中的权力距离和服从权威。对泰国一所大型国际大学的 353 名学生（N = 353）进行了问卷调查。研究发现，泰国学生和老师之间使用社交媒体会影响学生如何看待他们与老师之间面对面的权力动态。具体来说，学生和老师在 Facebook 上互动的次数越多，学生对他们与老师之间的权力距离的感知就越低。