ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 sums up the key findings from each chapter, discussing the appropriateness of this concept of mediated accounts and some newly introduced concepts (communicative agents, communicative guiders, and the related terms) tightly bound with it, speculating on the implications of this current research (the digital community as the ethnic affinitive place, and the digital community as the source of the wisdom of its crowds). In essence, their mutual online communications in text format are primarily aimed at meeting the communicative agent’s academic concerns as well as building his or her better working relationship with his or her American university academic advisor at the ‘front stage’ (in real-world situations), which is often entwined with his or her other challenges in close connection with his or her academic adjustment to American graduate education and school, broadly known as institutional, academic, cultural, or social matters.
