GIRLS AND FACEBOOK: THE SELF-REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE ADOLESCENT STUDENTS AT THE FACULTY OF LETTERS SOEGIJAPRANATA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Daftar Isi:
- The internet is used by many people across the world as a way to communicate with other human beings. Through the internet, social media such as Facebook has affected the ways people across the world represent themselves. Since Facebook in Indonesia has the world’s fourth highest percentage of users, the author is interested in studying this impact, specifically, about how female adolescent users use Facebook for selfrepresentation. This study will explore the self-representations of 20 female students aged 17-21 at the Faculty of Letters Soegijapranata Catholic University in Semarang, Indonesia, using theory from Enli and Thumim concerning three types of self-representation: reluctant practice, sharing practice, and promotional practice. The writer used questionnaires to filter out 20 respondents from 103, and then performed an in-depth analysis of the 20 respondents’ Facebook statuses during the month of January to group the statuses on the three categories above. The writer found sharing practice to be the most common type of self-representation.