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Consumption of the Sign and Communicating Identities in Instagram
This is an academic article focusing on analysis of identity construction from daily consumption applying concept of consumption of the sign to explain that the consumption in today's society is not only based on the utility or pleasure, but also the value and meaning of the products created by marketing communication campaign that helps communicate the product’s utility as well as its connotative meaning. Therefore, the consumers are able to choose the products according to their own taste. In reality, when the consumers aim to create their consumption’s identity according to the higher social class and group’s desire, the cost of spending is also respectively high. However, the social media’s feature allows people to create and convey the identity through the image of the products which are not actually bought for their own use. People copy the image of the products available online and re-present them on their Instagram. This phenomenon clearly emphasizes that even in the online world, the consumers often use images that reflect a logic of sign value in determining and choosing images that describe their own identity to the real world.