An Ethnography of Shipping as a Communication Practice Within the Fujoshi Community in Indonesia
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200331.178How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- ethnography of communication, community, fujoshi, shipping, boys’ love
- Abstract
This essay is an ethnographic study of communication practices within the fujoshi community in Indonesia that analyses three main issues: how a women becomes a fujoshi, the practice of shipping as a communication phenomenon, and social stratification within the fujoshi community. Our analysis applies a qualitative ethnography approach. The results of our research yielded three conclusions. Firstly, a women becomes a fujoshi when she finds boys’ love content interesting and is attracted to the visual representations in boys’ love manga. Secondly, shipping is the practice of pairing two fictional male characters in a romantic relationship. Shipping fantasies are expressed in the form of fan art, fanfiction, and doujinshi (explicit manga made by fans). The third is the social stratification within the fujoshi community in which there are fujoshi whose are considered either upper or lower class. This research concludes that shipping as a communication phenomenon is not performed by an individual fujoshi but rather involves the fujoshi community as a whole. Through the practice of shipping, fujoshi develop their own distinctive, unique culture.
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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 - Devie Rahmawati AU - Wiratri Anindhita AU - Decintya AU - Amelita Lusia AU - Ngurah Rangga Wisesa PY - 2020 DA - 2020/04/03 TI - An Ethnography of Shipping as a Communication Practice Within the Fujoshi Community in Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Vocational Higher Education (ICVHE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 440 EP - 450 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200331.178 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200331.178 ID - Rahmawati2020 ER -