Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)

The Line Stickers as the Youngsters Ethnic Identity and Media Representation

Authors
Elda Franzia
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Elda Franzia
Available Online 31 December 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201230.019How to use a DOI?
Keywords
LINE sticker, Youngster, Ethnic identity, Media, Representation
Abstract

The communication nowadays has mediated by onLine application in cellular phone known as apps. The Line apps are the most popular messenger application among youngsters, because stickers are available in the apps which is opens up opportunities for their user to design and sell their own stickers in the LINE Sticker Shop. The LINE stickers became the media of communication and representation of identity for their users. There are various kind of stickers in the LINE Sticker Shop that represent certain identity including ethnic identity. The stickers made by independent creator that registered and published their stickers in the LINE Sticker Shop. This paper presents how LINE stickers became the media representation of ethnic identity of the youngsters and marks their social learning process in the digital world. The data collecting method is observation and observation to the creators’ stickers of The LINE Sticker Shop. Visual data were analysed with content analysis and visual culture theories. The result is The LINE sticker can become a model of how a certain ethnic character looks like by identifying their visual representation through the figures, fashion styles, attributes, and colours and also become a model of how their ethnic community communicate to each other by identifying the way the visual character speaks through text that embedded to it.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 December 2020
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.201230.019
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201230.019How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 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/).

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