Identity Construction Among Teenagers On Facebook Fan Pages

Abstract

Abstract      

This research aims to explore the use of Facebook fan pages to communicate and construct identities among teenagers took the role in the communication of the borderless world for consuming news and information. The data of this qualitative research were collected from 15 people through in-depth interviews and non-participant observations, and presented using analytical description.

The research found that Facebook fan pages are spaces used by teenagers to follow news in the form of online networking where they create their identities through language understood among teenagers and Facebook users.  Additionally, they use signs to create identities and communicate on Facebook fan pages.  Pictures or stickers are used to communicate meanings     and opinions among users on contents of the fan pages which reflect perceptions of users in news and happenings in society.  Consequently, there are co-identities created by teenagers on Facebook fan pages.