A Teenger Tashi’s Media Travel

On Dec 11th,1984, the government issued a notice of decision to set up Tibetan classes in the Mainland. Since this system had established, each year about 1300 to 1500 Tibetan students started to study in mainland by voluntary enrollment. This special education system has significance for national stability, social development and individual progress.As one of Tibetan students, I have studied in mainland for 14 years from a high school student to a postgraduate. This article focuses on the individual, reviewing my past study life in mainland. The story describes interpersonal communication, organizational communication and mass media exposure in different periods. Expecting to implicit the social changes, this paper attempts to restore a specific course of life through storytelling, analyzing the experience of using media process. The story ultimately settled on "Cultural adaptation ", "Modernity" and "Ethnic identity".The article suggests that my continuous self-modernization was shaped by school study, the culture of the above cities and mass media. The degree of comunication with mainlanders influenced Tibetan students’ acculturation process in the Cross-cultural interpersoal communication environment. Organizational communication environment continuously stimulated students which caused their cultural and identity adaptation. Traditional media-based mass media constantly cultivated the values of teenage Tibetan students in the early stages, issuing a strong focus on entertainment and consumerism; later Newmedia-based mass media stimulated the ethnic consciousness of grown Tibetan Students.In a sum, the mass media not only construct but also deconstruct the ethnic identity of the Tibetan students. Ethnic identity is achieving a new construct and regress in the new media environment.