The Line Stickers as the Youngsters Ethnic Identity and Media Representation
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.019How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- LINE sticker, Youngster, Ethnic identity, Media, Representation
- Abstract
The communication nowadays has mediated by onLine application in cellular phone known as apps. The Line apps are the most popular messenger application among youngsters, because stickers are available in the apps which is opens up opportunities for their user to design and sell their own stickers in the LINE Sticker Shop. The LINE stickers became the media of communication and representation of identity for their users. There are various kind of stickers in the LINE Sticker Shop that represent certain identity including ethnic identity. The stickers made by independent creator that registered and published their stickers in the LINE Sticker Shop. This paper presents how LINE stickers became the media representation of ethnic identity of the youngsters and marks their social learning process in the digital world. The data collecting method is observation and observation to the creators’ stickers of The LINE Sticker Shop. Visual data were analysed with content analysis and visual culture theories. The result is The LINE sticker can become a model of how a certain ethnic character looks like by identifying their visual representation through the figures, fashion styles, attributes, and colours and also become a model of how their ethnic community communicate to each other by identifying the way the visual character speaks through text that embedded to it.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Elda Franzia PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/31 TI - The Line Stickers as the Youngsters Ethnic Identity and Media Representation BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 96 EP - 101 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.019 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.019 ID - Franzia2020 ER -