Growing up in a digital era: The journey towards independence, agency and individuality

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-342
Author(s):  
Lauren Dempsey

The move from adolescence to adulthood is a pivotal transitional period rife with cultural, social and personal changes. It also involves an era of in-between moments: rather than a sudden change, teenagers spend years navigating the grey areas between adolescence and adulthood. This transition has been further complicated by the use of digital technologies (DTs) and computer-mediated communication (CMC) shaping teenagers’ experiences during this period. By utilizing UK communication regulator Ofcom’s Adults’ Media Lives dataset, this study longitudinally studies the same teenagers between 2006 and 2018. It observes how they are both aided and hindered by the use of DT and CMC over time, identifying three key aspects of their lives that are shaped during this transition – relationships with their parents, their friends and their move from school to work – as they strive for independence, agency and individuality.

Author(s):  
Corey Liberman

Growing Up on Facebook, authored by Brady Robards and Sian Lincoln, exposes the reader to the role of Computer-Mediated Communication in creating, recreating, and altering the online identities of users. Highlighting the role of self in intimate relationships, professional relationships, and family relationships, Robards and Lincoln discuss such identity markers as friend requests, postings of photos, political discourse, and the creation of profiles, providing the fields of communication, sociology, and social psychology with an overview of the antecedents, processes, and effects of the social construction of self on Facebook.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Sri Seti Indriani ◽  
Ditha Prasanti ◽  
RANGGA SAPTYA MOHAMAD PERMANA

This article describes about phenomenon of Filter Bubble for Millennial Generation in online media.  Nowadays, we know that people in searching information are likely to be unaware that their search has been chosen. What is most interesting is how people which are aware on how a filter bubble works but seemed to forget when they search on some information. Researchers and critics are worried because these filters isolate people from getting the information on what they want not on what they need. People might not realize that they are led to partial information blindness. This research is acknowledge their awareness on the filter bubble phenomena especially on Y generation who are believed to be a group of people that adapt fast from the analogue era to the digital era. How they search information nowadays, how bubble filters add their self-value on things and how they prevent themselves from being in a bubble. The research was conducted using a qualitative method with an ethnography virtual approach through LINE group of millennial generation. This approach was to gain more information on the virtual culture, and this case the filter bubble phenomena. Results shows that most informants were not aware on the term of ‘Filter Bubble’, but have been assuming it for quite a while. When they were more informed of this term, they realized that they should be more critical on what they read, and being literated is a significant competence in this era. Though, in addition whether or not this filter bubble could construct their identity, some denied that it didn’t have any relevation while others seemed to think that it did give some additional values on it.Keywords: Filter Bubble, Computer-mediated Communication, ethnography virtual, millennials, and self valueABSTRAKPenelitian ini menjelaskan tentang fenomena bubble filter untuk Generasi Milenial di media online. Sekarang ini, orang-orang dalam mencari informasi cenderung tidak menyadari bahwa pencarian mereka telah dipilih. Hal paling menarik adalah bagaimana orang-orang yang menyadari cara kerja bubble filter namun menjadi lupa ketika mereka mencari informasi. Para peneliti dan kritikus khawatir bubble filter ini mengisolasi orang dari mendapatkan informasi tentang apa yang mereka inginkan, bukan tentang apa yang mereka butuhkan. Orang mungkin tidak menyadari bahwa mereka dituntun pada kebutaan informasi parsial. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kesadaran generasi Y terhadap fenomena bubble filter: cara mereka mencari informasi saat ini, bagaimana bubble filter menambahkan harga diri mereka pada sesuatu, dan bagaimana mereka mencegah diri mereka dari berada dalam bubble. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dan metode etnografi virtual untuk mendapatkan lebih banyak informasi tentang budaya virtual, terutama fenomena bubble filter. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sebagian besar informan tidak mengetahui istilah "Filter Bubble", namun mereka sudah mengasumsikannya cukup lama. Ketika mereka menjadi lebih tahu tentang istilah ini, mereka menyadari bahwa mereka harus lebih kritis terhadap apa yang mereka baca, dan menjadi literated adalah kompetensi yang signifikan di era sekarang ini. Selain apakah bubble filter dapat membentuk identitas mereka atau tidak, beberapa menyangkal bahwa bubble filter tidak memiliki relevansi apa pun, sementara yang lain tampaknya berpikir bahwa bubble filter memberikan beberapa nilai tambahan.Kata Kunci: Filter Bubble, computer-mediated communication, etnografi virtual, generasi milenial, nilai diri


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