scholarly journals RELIGIOUS BLASPHEMY AND MONITORY SOCIETY IN INDONESIAN DIGITAL AGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Leonard Chrysostomos Epafras ◽  
Hendrikus Paulus Kaunang ◽  
Syamsul Asri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Research Report ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
National Trends

The present article is a research report on the discourse of religious blasphemy in connection with digital practices in Indonesia. It sought to understand the shift of public participation in shaping the discourse that understood within the framework we identified as “monitory society.” The research employed qualitative approach by using several methods, among others are interview and social media observation. Reflecting upon the current national trends and new shift of political landscape, it appeared that religious blasphemy immersed into the political discourse as weaponized information, hence disrupted the meaning of democracy in digital age, as once become the rhetoric of digital technology. In general, the discourse of religious blasphemy in Indonesia is dealing with public piety and social order. It concerned more on religious boundary rather than the improvement of religious lives and personal piety.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Social Media Use and Public Participation in Korea and the United States: Does Social Media Matter?

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-230
Author(s):  
Kim Eun Yi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Impact

This study examines how the use of different types of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, affects public participation, drawing on the theory of motivation, which addresses the effect of internal and external political efficacy as well as the perceived political importance of social media. The study also investigates the interaction effect between social media use and perceived the political importance of social media on public participation. Employing a comparative perspective on an issue that has not been well studied, the study further seeks to discover potential variations in the impacts of different social media on public participation in the United States and Korea, both of which held presidential elections at the end of 2012. This study conducted hierarchical multiple regression analyses using data collected from college students in the United States and Korea. It shows the positive impact of social media use and its interaction effect with the perceived political importance of social media on the offline and online public participation of youth. The political motivational factor is found to be critical to driving public participation. This study also shows that the impact of Facebook use is more influential than Twitter use on public participation in the United States, whereas the opposite pattern is observed in Korea.

scholarly journals Simulacra in the Age of Social Media: Baudrillard as the Prophet of Fake News

2020 ◽  
pp. 019685992097715
Author(s):  
James Morris
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Online Technology ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Mass Reproduction

“Fake News” has been a frequent topic in the last couple of years. The phenomenon has particularly been cited with regards to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. The creation of “post truth” reports that are disseminated via the Web and social media has been treated as something new, a product of the digital age, and a reason to be concerned about the effects of online technology. However, this paper argues that fake news should be considered as part of a continuum with forms of media that went before in the 20th Century, and the general trend of postmodernity detailed by Baudrillard. The simulation of communications media and mass reproduction was already evident and has merely progressed in the digital age rather than the latter providing a wholly new context. The paper concludes by asking whether the political havoc caused by fake news has an antidote, when it appears to be a by-product of media simulacra’s inherent lack of connection to the real. In a communications landscape where the misrepresentations of the so-called “Mainstream Media” are decried using even more questionable “memes” on social media, is there any possibility for truth?

scholarly journals Digitalization in Higher Education: A Qualitative Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naciye Guliz Ugur
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

The increasing use of digital technology by young people has become a major concern in the 21st century. This access to technology has led to hot-button arguments surrounding the place of these technologies in our lives and the implications that they have for the future. The incorporation of multimodal and digital technologies in courses has been increasing, with documentaries, social media posts, and blogs host significant spaces for learning and coursework. These forms of knowledge and communication have started to become legitimized in the classroom setting, in addition to the traditional educational technologies such as lectures and textbooks. This paper explores the assumptions by instructors and students concerning why and how multimodal and digital technologies are incorporated into undergraduate classes by qualitative approach. Also, the actual experiences that students and instructors have in using these forms of media in an educational context are investigated via participant observation, in-depth review and open-ended questionnaire techniques along the research

Digital/e-professionalism: a new trend or simply professionalism in the digital age?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Nasseripour ◽  
Jonathan San Diego ◽  
Jenny Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Or

The increasing mainstream use of new technologies in the health professions (and in dentistry particularly) has given rise to an acute interest in what some identify as a new entity: that of digital or e-professionalism. We suggest there is no standalone notion of e-professionalism but rather professionalism in the digital age as an application of professional competence, values and behaviours within the realm of social media and digital technology.

scholarly journals Fenomena Industri Buzzer Di Indonesia: Sebuah Kajian Ekonomi Politik Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Shiddiq Sugiono
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Media Politics ◽  
Ruling Party

This study aims to examine the shift in the buzzer concept, look at the various relationships between actors involved in the political buzzer industry, illustrate the abuse of regulations by the authorities and examine the buzzer industry in the concepts of media politics and economic theory. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The research data was collected purposively and prioritized sourced from literature studies and documents examining the buzzer phenomenon in Indonesia. The results show that the buzzer term has shifted to a concept that generally resides in a political context and has negative stereotypes. There are various relations between actors who want to achieve their political goals by using a buzzer. The ruling party is considered to have misused the ITE Law as a tool to trap various sirens from the opposing parties. From the perspective of the political economy, the buzzer industry is often considered to ignore different ethics, one of which is by making one's personal life an industrial commodity. The emergence of political buzzer must be accompanied by public awareness to be vigilant and critical of messages on social media so that it is not provoked by the buzzer industry.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji pergeseran konsep buzzer, melihat berbagai relasi antar aktor yang terlibat dalam industri buzzer politik, menggambarkan penyalahgunaan regulasi oleh pihak yang berkuasa dan mengkaji industri buzzer dalam konsep-konsep teori ekonomi politik media. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif. Data penelitian dikumpulkan secara purposive dan diutamakan bersumber dari studi literatur dan dokumen yang mengkaji fenomena buzzer di Indonesia. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa istilah buzzer mengalami pergeseran menjadi konsep yang secara umum berada di dalam konteks politik dan memiliki stereotip negatif. Terdapat berbagai relasi antar aktor yang ingin mencapai tujuan politiknya dengan menggunakan buzzer. Pihak yang berkuasa dinilai telah menyalahgunakan UU ITE sebagai suatu alat untuk menjerat berbagai buzzer dari pihak lawan. Dalam perspektif ekonomi politik, industri buzzer dinilai kerap mengabaikan berbagai etika, salah satunya dengan menjadikan kehidupan pribadi seseorang menjadi suatu komoditas industri. Munculnya buzzer politik harus dibarengi dengan kesadaran masyarakat untuk waspada dan mengkritisi pesan-pesan di media social, sehingga tidak terprovokasi oleh industri buzzer.

scholarly journals DAKWAH MEDIA SOSIAL : POLA DAKWAH PADA MASA PANDEMI COVID 19

MEDIAKITA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zida Zakiyatul Husna, Moh. Ali Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Almost All

The Covid-19 pandemic, which has hit almost all parts of the world, has made many changes in social order. No exception, Indonesia is also one of the countries affected by the Covid-19 outbreak. The new government policy regarding the prevention of the Covid-19 outbreak has hampered almost all social activities. One of them is da'wah activities. The existence of the PSBB and WFH policies makes preachers have to find new da'wah strategies and methods so that da'wah can be carried out in the midst of new policies from the government. Looking at the above background, this research focuses on how the new dakwah patterns during the pandemic. Through a descriptive qualitative approach and observing one of the da'wah actors, namely the @ala_nu account on social media Instagram, this study found that one of the new da'wah patterns in the pandemic was the use of growing media. And one of the media that is now widely used by preachers in conveying their preaching during a pandemic is Instagram social media. Through the @ala_nu account, researchers can find out new da'wah patterns using social media.Keywords: Da'wah Patterns, Social Media, @ala_nu

scholarly journals Digital labour: an empty signifier?

2020 ◽  
pp. 016344372094801
Author(s):  
Alessandro Gandini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Original Theory ◽  
Analytical Purpose ◽  
Empty Signifier ◽  
Internet Companies

Since the early 2000s, the expression ‘digital labour’ has identified an influential theoretical proposition in the Marxist critique of the political economy of digital media, which sees the leisure-driven, unpaid activities of social media users as unremunerated forms of work contributing to Internet companies’ profits. Over the years, however, this expression has evolved into an umbrella term, used to describe a variety of practices and instances concerning the broader relationship between labour and digital technology – including paid work – often with little or no relation to the original theory. Reflecting on this evolution, this article argues that ‘digital labour’ has become a kind of empty signifier, unable to serve a clearly distinguishable critical or analytical purpose. Focusing on the emergence of platform labour, it shows how ‘digital’ and ‘labour’ have come to be largely inseparable dimensions and discusses the related implications.

scholarly journals Evolution of the political opinion landscape during electoral periods

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás Mussi Reyero ◽  
Mariano G. Beiró ◽  
J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin ◽  
Laura Hernández ◽  
Dimitris Kotzinos
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
A Priori ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Opinion ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Similarities And Differences

AbstractWe present a study of the evolution of the political landscape during the 2015 and 2019 presidential elections in Argentina, based on data obtained from the micro-blogging platform Twitter. We build a semantic network based on the hashtags used by all the users following at least one of the main candidates. With this network we can detect the topics that are discussed in the society. At a difference with most studies of opinion on social media, we do not choose the topics a priori, they emerge from the community structure of the semantic network instead. We assign to each user a dynamical topic vector which measures the evolution of her/his opinion in this space and allows us to monitor the similarities and differences among groups of supporters of different candidates. Our results show that the method is able to detect the dynamics of formation of opinion on different topics and, in particular, it can capture the reshaping of the political opinion landscape which has led to the inversion of result between the two rounds of 2015 election.

scholarly journals POLITICS OR PIETY? UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC PIETY AND POLITICAL EXPRESSIONS OF INDONESIAN MUSLIM IN ONLINE SPHERE

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Aqida Nuril Salma
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Computational Method ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Islamic Schools ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Gubernatorial Election ◽  
Critical Aspects

In today’s digital age, one of the most significant shifts in the field of Islam in Indonesia is the increasing reliance of Muslims on social media when practicing and expressing their faith and religiosity. The expressions generally reflected in the consumer behavior and everyday lives of Indonesian Muslims, with their preference for Islamic banking, Islamic schools, Islamic fashion, Islamic medicines and most importantly, today Indonesian Muslims like to present these practices on their social media accounts. However, public expressions of piety have been apparent in the political life of Indonesian Muslims as Indonesia’s political landscape has undergone significant changes after the controversy surrounding Jakarta Gubernatorial Election. Although religion has often been ignored as an important political factor, but it can’t be denied that both are actually the biggest public parts of many people’s lives. Therefore, this paper argues that political contexts are critical aspects of modern formations of piety. Based on online observations combined with computational method, this paper tries to analyzes intriguing examples of how social media, the religious, and the everyday politics intersect, focusing on contemporary expressions of piety through political attitudes in an online sphere. 

scholarly journals Government and Digital Engagement Technologies: The Elusive Search for Consensus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey E. Lobo-Pulo ◽  
José J. F. Ribas Fernandes ◽  
Annette Hester ◽  
Ryan J. Hum
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The People ◽  
Meaningful Engagement ◽  
Digital Engagement ◽  
We The People

As new digital platforms emerge and governments look at new ways to engage with citizens, there is an increasing awareness of the role these platforms play in shaping public participation and democracy. We examine three case studies on digital engagement (vTaiwan, We the People, and social media), and discuss key considerations for effective public engagement in the digital age: Empowerment, time to deliberate, transparency, useful data, consensus, and dynamic engagement. We hope that these serve as a basis for constructing meaningful engagement.

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