Social Media As A Means For College Students Prostitution In Medan City

DOI

10.2991/icosop-17.2018.42How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social Media, Prostitution, College Student

Abstract

This study is a focus on the role of Social Media as a means for a college student in Medan City. The purpose of this research is to trace and know the covert prostitution network conducted by female students, using the social media as the transaction medium. According to the problem, the researcher uses Social Research type and the method used is Ethnography and describes it qualitatively, through internet browsing, social media, interview with female college students who are involved with this prostitution web, and internet prostitution network search especially in Social Media, which become research. The results show this veiled prostitution began to bloom and develop among college students in Medan city. The actors who involved in this prostitution web are mostly college students. Their ability to use and apply technological results, which in this case is the Internet and social media, has resulted in a network of prostitution that is difficult to trace and hard to see by the common people. Prostitution through the social media has been well organized and neat, complete with all the ease and practicality, by the ease of internet access itself. This prostitution has become a lucrative business field, for those with money and sex orientation.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Faisal Irawan
AU  - Ibrahim Gultom
AU  - Hidayat Amsani
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - Social Media As A Means For College Students Prostitution In Medan City
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social and Political Development (ICOSOP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 271
EP  - 275
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosop-17.2018.42
DO  - 10.2991/icosop-17.2018.42
ID  - Irawan2017/12
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