The Construction of Buzzer Identity on Social media (A Descriptive Study of Buzzer Identity in Twitter)

Keywords

Symbolic Interactionism, Identity Construction, Buzzer, Social Media, Twitter

Abstract

The aim of this study is to describe the construction of buzzer identity on social media. Buzzer is one of the actor in social media who has the role as an influencer who persuades the followers on a particular topic in Twitter. Buzzer sometimes provides Twitter’s biography (bio) in order to describe the simpliest user identity. The common user never realizes the existence of a buzzer if just identify based on the short biography, status updates or tweets on social media. Researcher examines the buzzer identity by using the descriptive approach and symbolic interaction theory draws on George Herbert Mead through interaction and self-presentation in Twitter. There are five informans who have been interviewed and explored with any related information to buzzer’s identity in Social Media. The result shows that buzzer who used to build a good self-presentation in order to gaining the enthusiastic and attractive response from followers. The ability of buzzer about self-concept will give a great chance to build sustainable relationship. The followers will respond to buzzer which is based on the construction of buzzer identity who would be able to come up to their expectations in Twitter

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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  - Rismi Juliadi
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - The Construction of Buzzer Identity on Social media (A Descriptive Study of Buzzer Identity in Twitter)
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 337
EP  - 344
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25902416
ID  - Juliadi2017/11
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