Establishment of Role-Player as a Virtual Identity in Twitter Social Media

This study focused on the activity of virtual identity on one of Twitter's social media platforms, namely Role play. Role-playing is a role play where individuals do on social media to act, play, socialize by becoming or playing someone else's role. The individual who carries out that role is called Role-player. The role is carried out in the form of characters from idolized figures such as Idol Artists, Cartoon Characters, Super Heroes, and also self-built fictional characters. The aim of this Role-playing is to create a virtual identity by following the original characters of the idol to communicate with each other so as to create a social space in cyberspace.This study is supported by the theory of Social Construction in which the theory explains the relationship between identity and construction that is built in communication, especially on social media. The perspective in this study is constructivist and uses qualitative research types in order to explain this study in a broader way. This research is using phenomenology method. Role-play virtual identity formed through 4 processes, namely the thought process that includes knowledge about the character, the desire to portray the character, then the process of making a Role play account on Twitter social media, and the results of actions that contain the process of self-formation, experience, and reality social.