Self – Representations of Student Transvestites on Social Media
- DOI
- 10.2991/icsgs-18.2019.12How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- self-identitycreates self-representation, social media, student transvestites
- Abstract
Becoming a transvestite in the real world has a lot of risks, including receiving poor treatment from people, both on and off campus for students. Student transvestites choose virtual spaces as places to showcase and acknowledge their gender. Seeing that reality will bear different meanings for people who experience their self-identitycreates a distinct experience for student transvestites during college due to social media. Therefore, researchers are interested to explore the self-representation of student transvestites on social media. This study analyzed the theory of simulacra and hyperreality of Jean Baudrillard. The research approach is qualitative and descriptive.. Mechanical selection of informants was conducted using snowball sampling and purposive sampling. Data were collected hrough passive participation, in-depth interviews, and the study of documentation and were then analyzed using interactive model analysis which includes reducing the data, displaying the data, and drawing conclusions. Results of the study revealed elements of the self-representation of student transvestites on social media including (1) a desire to show their identity , (2) expression as a work of art and entertainment, (3) feelings of loneliness anda desire to get attention, and (4 he promotion of makeup.
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- © 2019, 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 - Bunga Mustika AU - Tantri Adiwijaya AU - Fauziyyah Isra AU - Jeki Aridianto AU - Tomy Lovendo PY - 2019/11 DA - 2019/11 TI - Self – Representations of Student Transvestites on Social Media BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Strategic and Global Studies (ICSGS 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 82 EP - 89 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsgs-18.2019.12 DO - 10.2991/icsgs-18.2019.12 ID - Mustika2019/11 ER -