The meaning of social media for women domestic workers during the Covid-19 pandemic

Social media plays an important role during the Covid-19 pandemic, where physical activity and community mobility are limited. Especially for women who work as domestic workers who live with their employers. Social media is the only means for them to connect with the outside world.Previous studies have shown that a person's identity can be shown through the front stage and the back stage. Theoretically, this study analyzing how women domestic workers identify themselves through the online realm using social media. This study uses a constructivist paradigm and a qualitative approach. The research participants were three women domestic worker who were obtained purposively using the snowball sampling technique. Data was collected through in-depth interviews and observation to participants. The results of the study show that social media allows participants to construct a reality in the online realm that is different from their situation in real life. Therefore, social media has a very important meaning for participants, because with social media, participants feel their position is equal to other users. They also have access to create a front stage and a back stage, where they can create their ideal self-identity. The aspect of self that are presented by the participants on the front stage is individuals who are successful and happy with their lives. For participants, this is an aspect of their ideal self, even though it does not represent their actual state.

A study of web ecology: The use of trackers on pro science climate change and climate denier websites

In this article, the website infrastructures of both pro science climate change and climate denier websites are examined. The focus is on the backstage of the website, defined as the use of widgets, ad trackers, beacons, and analytics and not the website content, or what might be described as the front stage. This research addresses questions about the presence and use of trackers within the commodification of user attention, the audience economy. The study concludes that organizations on both sides of the climate issue use similar strategies in monetizing their websites and tracking user behavior. Moreover, the infrastructure that is created among the platforms reflects the major role that big tech plays in developing an interconnected web of tracker technologies. While website transparency may remain an ideal, the study advocates for a responsible approach to website development, one that acknowledges the complexity of the issue within a stronger regulatory environment.

ANALISIS PENGELOLAAN KESAN ACHMAD PURNOMO DAN GIBRAN RAKABUMING MENJELANG PILKADA SOLO 2020

Penelitian ini berkisar pada pengelolaan kesan yang muncul dari Achmad Purnomo dan Gibran Rakabuming Raka yang dibuat oleh media dalam pemberitaan pemilihan umum kepala daerah di wilayah Solo. Jenis penelitian ini ialah kualitatif deskriptif dengan analisis data menggunakan pendekatan Dramaturgi. Hasil dalam penelitian ini menyebutkan bahwa identifikasi personal dari Achmad Purnomo seperti citra dalam politik, citra pengusaha yang aktif dalam kegiatan sosial, citra seorang birokrat, demikian juga dengan Gibran Rakabuming yang disebutkan citra millenial, citra sebagai pengusaha yang mapan, dan citra sebagai anak presiden. Beberapa identifikasi tersebut dianalisis dengan dramaturgi baik secara front stage dan juga back stage yang nantinya akan diproyeksikan ke dalam bentuk citra oleh media, di mana citra tersebut menjadi citra kini, citra korporasi,citra multi image dan juga citra penampilan diri. Kontribusi penelitian ini ialah mengulas secara detail pengelolaan kesan yang muncul di seputaran pemilihan umum kepala daerah di Solo 2020.

Dramaturgi Profesi Wartawan dalam Realita Kehidupan

Penelitian ini untuk mengetahui kehidupan profesi wartawan yang selama ini terlihat sebagai agen perubahan, penuh idealisme dalam menghadapi perubahan ke arah yang tidak lebih dari sekedar drama. Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif deskriptif dengan studi dramaturgi. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan snowball sampling, observasi, wawancara, dokumentasi. Analisis data dilakukan dengan teknik interaktif. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa wartawan sering berada di panggung depan (front stage) yang berkilau sehingga kalau dia tidak bisa kembali ke panggung belakang (back stage), maka akan terus bermain peran. Semua diperankan sebagai sosok wartawan yang serba tahu dan merasa paling penting. Ada juga yang bukan panggung depan dan panggung belakang tetapi menjadi saksi dari pertunjukkan yang berlangsung: yaitu daerah luar (residual).

An exploration of emotional labour and emotion work in emergency pre-hospital care

This thesis explores emotional labour and emotion work in the context of the emergency ambulance service. The emergency medical service (EMS) provides constant response to life threatening situations and complex health care issues in the pre-hospital care setting. The emotional challenges of this type of health care work in the context of high demand is a crucial, though somewhat neglected area of research attention. Hochschild’s theory on emotional labour (1983, 2003) and Goffman’s (1959) dramaturgical concepts of front stage and backstage are utilised, supplemented with features of discourse and conversational analysis. An ethnographic approach involving 280 hours of participant observation over a 10-month period and 24 in-depth interviews with EMS crews in one busy, urban, inner city ambulance station serving a large geographical area in the UK has been utilised to explore the emotional challenges of this work and the local ways of dealing with these. The study findings suggest that EMS crews appraise and categorise their front stage work in positive and negative ways. Positive calls are expressed through local descriptors such being able to ‘make a difference’ and perceived ‘genuine’ need for the EMS and appear alongside emotions such as excitement which some crews suggested helped them deal with the more mundane types of work. Negative call appraisal was associated with questions of legitimacy of need for emergency assistance and predicated on normative ideologies. Crews constructed and populated categories displaying features of identity work, moral work and “negotiated order” (Strauss, Schatzman, Ehrlich, Bucher, & Sabshin, 1963), mobilizing their perceptions of the role of the EMS and the kind of work they should be doing. Negative categorisation was associated with frustration necessitating emotional labour by crews in the disguise and suppression of emotion and appeared to influence the interactions between them and patients. The backstage setting in the form of the crew room was a central, regular, social gathering point where frontline frustrations were shared and processed through moaning, complaining, talking and humour. The crew room was a setting to talk to each other about difficult calls; where reflection was verbalized in questioning if they had done the ‘right’ thing and where reassurance was sought from colleagues. The reflexivity displayed by crews in the backstage setting appeared to emphasise positive affirmations rather than challenge and contributed to a sense of group identity. This thesis offers new understandings of the challenges of the frontline EMS role, emotional labour and emotion work and drawing on participant observation, offers tentative implications these appear to have for crews’ interactions with those who use the service. The backstage context and behaviours represent local ways in which frontline role challenges appear to be expressed and managed from the perspective of those who are directly involved in it. The findings of this thesis offer unique contributions to the theory of emotional labour and emotion work in the emergency pre-hospital care context. These have implications for the inclusion of the concepts of emotional labour and emotion work in pre- and post-registration paramedic curricula, organisational recognition of the emotional demands of emergency ambulance work and staff support and for further research into the emotional challenges of this type of work.

Multispecies encounters in events.

Multispecies events, like Landsmót, the National Championships of the Icelandic horse, pose interesting practical and logistical challenges for event managers who must ensure that safety and nonhuman animal welfare are prioritized alongside other aspects of event design and management. This chapter uses Goffman's (1959) dramaturgical concepts of 'front stage', 'backstage' and 'offstage' to consider the types of interspecies encounters that can occur in different contexts around an event site. Drawing on data from ethnographic observations and interviews with horse breeders and event staff, the chapter discusses some of the issues that can arise in trying to manage those interactions in ways that recognize the different needs of human and nonhuman participants, whilst still delivering a successful and entertaining event.

Literasi Media: Sosial Media Sebagai “Front Stage” Baru Personal Image Generasi Digital Native

The purpose of this research is to see how social media creates a new "front stage" for individuals and provides space for these individuals to form and manage their personal images, which tend to be more enjoyable for the digital native generation. This study uses an interpretive paradigm. For interpretive researchers, the goal of social research is to develop an understanding of social life and discover how people construct meaning in natural settings. The implementation of this research produces media literacy, not just an activity that filters out various information that is of no use to its users, positives and more advantages. The conclusion of this research is that Native Digital Generaation is a different group in the stage of searching for identity, and is at the stage of searching for an appropriate role which is expected to receive the appreciation they expect, media literacy is needed as skills not only filter out the negative things of freedom, social media, but furthermore requires the ability to maximize social media space to get positive things and more benefits.