Social Media, Awkarin Phenomenon and the Freedom of Expression Among Teenaged Girls

Sulih Indra Dewi, Dinar Primasti, Akhirul Aminulloh

2017

Abstract

Instagram has been so popular nowadays after Facebook and resulted many new celebrities who are called as “Selebgram” or celebrity Instagram. These celebrities have given so much influence to the followers and become new idols and role models especially for young people or teenagers. Awkarin is a selebgram who has more than two million followers with so many controversies. This research was conducted in Malang, East Java from Juli- September 2017 and used descriptive qualitative method. The data gathering techniques were interview and documentation. Meanwhile, the sampling technique was a purposive sampling. The result showed that most teenaged girls used social media as reference to identify themselves. The acceptance of their peers to get their identity has become an important thing and with the easy access to social media it has created a new way of finding identity and expressing themselves. Unfortunately, they have a role model crisis with the influence of their idols and family. Family has a big role to prevent teenagers from the negative influences of social media and internet. So, increasing and strengthening family communication have become urgent to be conducted. Parents must also be familiar with internet technology to be able to control and monitor their children.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Indra Dewi S., Primasti D. and Aminulloh A. (2017). Social Media, Awkarin Phenomenon and the Freedom of Expression Among Teenaged Girls.In Proceedings of the International Post-Graduate Conference on Media and Communication - Volume 1: IPCOMC, ISBN 978-989-758-337-7, pages 333-338. DOI: 10.5220/0007329003330338

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ipcomc17,
author={Sulih Indra Dewi and Dinar Primasti and Akhirul Aminulloh},
title={Social Media, Awkarin Phenomenon and the Freedom of Expression Among Teenaged Girls},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Post-Graduate Conference on Media and Communication - Volume 1: IPCOMC,},
year={2017},
pages={333-338},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007329003330338},
isbn={978-989-758-337-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Post-Graduate Conference on Media and Communication - Volume 1: IPCOMC,
TI - Social Media, Awkarin Phenomenon and the Freedom of Expression Among Teenaged Girls
SN - 978-989-758-337-7
AU - Indra Dewi S.
AU - Primasti D.
AU - Aminulloh A.
PY - 2017
SP - 333
EP - 338
DO - 10.5220/0007329003330338