The Tale of Middle Class in Two Cities - The Comparison between The LeanYear of a city by ParkWanSeo, and Cell Phone by LiuZhenYun

Digital Life Middle-Class on Instagram: Like, Share and Comment

KnE Social Sciences ◽

10.18502/kss.v3i20.4944 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Rama Kertamukti ◽

Heru Nugroho ◽

S. Bayu Wahyono

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Cell Phone ◽

Social Reality ◽

Private Space ◽

One Dimensional ◽

Patriarchal System ◽

Ethnographic Approach ◽

The Subject ◽

Social And Cultural Factors ◽

Everyday Reality

Instagram, today as a result of technology that is acculturated with economic, social and cultural factors, brings leisure to the middle class, they do activities freely in life such as hobbies, recreation. The middle class in accessing Instagram is reduced by the Instagram algorithm to be a one-dimensional human. The middle class will be a uniform individual with the same activities like share, and comment. The middle class is a lasting individual who runs consumerism where everything becomes a commodity and is trapped in relations in the algorithm of relationships made by Instagram. For the middle-class Instagram is a lifestyle and daily activity. Instagram, which is mediated via cell phone, is a new socialization space that frees someone from the rules and disciplines of the patriarchal system. This activity results in the middle class recognizing, embracing and exploring things that cannot be expressed in everyday reality. Instagram in the middle class produces digital life practices that want to show a lifestyle. This study examines the phenomenon of middle-class practice in showing the practice of digital life: like share and comment on Instagram. Researchers will use a virtual ethnographic method. The virtual ethnographic approach will be carried out because this research is an object in cyberspace so that it can adequately understand the way the subject interacts and collaborates through observed phenomena. Instagram is a photo showroom, a kind of private space because the user gallery can be designed in such a way as the user wishes, users upload whatever happens around them, which is considered to represent user activity. The three accounts examined by @fajarmantoo, @herni_maryuliani and @ rosakusumaazhar present activities in digital life. The fact that manifests these two accounts is that consumption and production in the Instagram arena provide the formation of social reality. Instagram becomes a social reality forming tool that can give an idea of how activities in the middle class when on Instagram.

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“Living in Each Other's Pockets”: The Navigation of Social Distances by Middle Class Families in Los Angeles

City and Community ◽

10.1111/j.1540-6040.2006.00192.x ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 425-450 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Alesia F. Montgomery

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Middle Class ◽

Low Income ◽

Spatial Mobility ◽

Urban Core ◽

Two Cities ◽

Hollywood Movies ◽

Post Civil Rights ◽

Middle Class Families

In Hollywood movies and dystopian critiques, Los Angeles is two cities: one wealthy, white, and gated, the other impoverished, dark, and carceral. This depiction verges on caricature, eliding the diversity and maneuvers of the region's middle class. Drawing upon ethnographies of middle class families (black, white, Latino, Asian) in affluent areas of West Los Angeles and the Valley and in the low‐income areas that are located south and east of downtown Los Angeles, I explore how and why, and at what costs, parents engage in daily maneuvers to place their children in beneficial settings across the region's vast sprawl. I describe these maneuvers that resemble a game of “musical chairs” as selective flight. In contrast to middle class flight to the suburbs, selective flight involves diurnal rather than residential shifts. Enabling middle‐class families who reside amidst the crumbling infrastructure of the urban core to chase cultural capital and physical safety in ever‐receding advantaged areas, the post‐Civil Rights State expands spatial mobility yet does not close racial distances. The pursuit of ever‐receding spaces of advantage is particularly paradoxical and burdensome for black middle‐class parents.

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The Middle-Class Entrepreneurial Elite in Šibenik and Split (15th Century)

Povijesni prilozi ◽

10.22586/pp.v56i1.8502 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 38 (56) ◽

pp. 109-130

Author(s):

Tonija Andrić ◽

Ante Birin

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Historical Records ◽

Late Medieval ◽

15Th Century ◽

Two Cities

The paper explores the entrepreneurial elite of late medieval Šibenik and Split, based on the examples of prominent businessmen in the historical records preserved in the notarial records of the two cities

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The Evolution of Augmentative Communication and the Importance of Alternate Access

Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication ◽

10.1044/aac20.1.34 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 34-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

David Chapple

Keyword(s):

Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽

Cell Phone ◽

Handheld Devices ◽

Alternative Communication ◽

Access Methods ◽

The Past ◽

Communication Device ◽

Internet Browser ◽

A Cell ◽

Development Of Language

Abstract Over the past 20 years, there have been many advances in the computer industry as well as in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices. Computers are becoming more compact and have multiple purposes, such as the iPhone, which is a cell phone, mp3 player, and an Internet browser. AAC devices also have evolved to become multi-purpose devices; the most sophisticated devices have functionality similar to the iPhone and iPod. Recently, the idea of having the iPhone and iPad as a communication device was initiated with the development of language applications specifically for this format. It might be true that this idea could become the future of AAC devices; however, there are major access issues to overcome before the idea is a reality. This article will chronicle advancements in AAC devices, specifically on access methods, throughout the years, towards the transition to handheld devices. The newest technologies hold much promise with both features and affordability factors being highly attractive. Yet, these technologies must be made to incorporate alternate access if they are to meet their fullest potential as AAC tools.

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