Monday, June 24, 2013

Tren E-Commerce sebagai Cyberculture



Tren E-Commerce sebagai Cyberculture

Studi kasus: Tren E-Commerce melalui Facebook

Hikmah Rofidah Lailiyah,dkk

IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya, Jl. Jend. A.Yani No. 117, Surabaya

Email: hikmah_fp@yahoo.co.id

Abstract: Trend E-Commerce as Cyberculture

Currently e-commerce has become a trend in the society along with the increasing use of internet in life. Most of the Indonesian internet users use the internet for social networking purposes, including accessing Facebook. E-commerce media is so diverse. One of them is by using facebook.

The issues raised in this penlitian include e-commerce linkage with cyberculture, reasons for use facebook as a medium of e-commerce, the advantages and disadvantages of using facebook as a medium of e-commerce, facebook commerce and current trends. The method used in this study is a qualitative ethnographic approach in order to gain an understanding of the trend of e-commerce as cyberculture. And to answer the focus problems of data analysis techniques used by Miles and Huberman.

From the research it was found that the trend of e-commerce has become the lifestyle of today's society. Faceboook is selected as the e-commerce because of the number of facebook users is so large. In addition, because Facebook provides a wide variety of applications add to the advantage in doing e-commerce, such as convenience and cost savings. While the disadvantages of using facebook is susceptible fraud, item purchased not in accordance with the drawings, and the unilateral cancellation. Although facebook has a lot of number of users and applications offered also vary, but along with the development of technology, it is quite tempting the perpetrators of f-commerce for media switch to smartphone chat application and online trading sites.



Key words: e-commerce, facebook