Abstract

Missionaries serving in foreign countries provide a unique perspective on culture that they chronicle on public blogs. A content analysis of these blogs showed that missionaries use their own cultural and religious frame to make observations, some good and some bad, about cultural habits and beliefs foreign to their own. Through the medium of blogging, we see how missionaries use self-narratives to understand and make sense out of differences in culture and beliefs that ultimately impact how they identify themselves.

Degree

MA

College and Department

Fine Arts and Communications; Communications

Rights

http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/

Date Submitted

2015-10-01

Document Type

Thesis

Handle

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd8145

Keywords

blogging, self-narratives, religion, missionaries, LDS

Language

english

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Fine Arts Commons

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