Konvergensi Simbolik Komunitas Pageant Lovers Indonesia di Instagram

Perkembangan dunia beauty pageant di Indonesia tidak terlepas dari peran pecinta kontes kecantikan yang dikenal dengan sebutan pageant lovers. Media sosial Instagram menjadi salah satu kanal bagi komunitas pageant lovers untuk berinteraksi dan berkomunikasi, melalui akun portal pageant. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui konvergensi simbolik komunitas pageant lovers Indonesia di Instagram berdasarkan teori konvergensi simbolik. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah observasi terhadap caption dan kolom komentar pada unggahan akun portal pageant, serta wawancara dengan tiga narasumber dari tiga akun portal pageant berbeda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa konvergensi simbolik komunitas pageant lovers muncul secara spontan dari anggotanya, dan digunakan secara luas melalui Instagram. Beberapa bentuk konvergensi simbolik yang muncul adalah mbak brownies, turun gunung, dan negara topi bundar. Dari penelitian ini, dapat disimpulkan bahwa konvergensi simbolik yang terjadi dalam komunitas pageant lovers Indonesia di Instagram sesuai dengan teori konvergensi simbolik yang ada, yakni melalui proses tema fantasi, rantai fantasi, tipe fantasi, dan visi retoris. The development of beauty pageants in Indonesia cannot be separated from the role of beauty pageant contest lovers known as pageant lovers. Instagram has become one of the channels for the pageant lovers community to interact and communicate through pageant portal accounts. This study aims to understand the symbolic convergence of the Indonesian pageant lovers community on Instagram based on symbolic convergence theory. The research method used is the observation of captions and comments on pageant portal accounts and interviews with three sources from three different pageant portal accounts on Instagram. The results showed that the symbolic convergence of the pageant lovers community emerged spontaneously from its members and was widely used through Instagram. Several forms of symbolic convergence that occurred were “mbak brownies”, “turun gunung, and “negara topi bundar”. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the symbolic convergence that occurs in the Indonesian pageant lovers community on Instagram is following the existing symbolic convergence theory through the process of fantasy themes, fantasy chains, fantasy types, and rhetorical visions.

Dynamics Of Organizational Communications In Sharing Fantasy Themes To Maintain The Solidarity And Existence Of Community Organizations

The purpose of this study is to explain the organizational communication aspect of a community organization, Forum Betawi Rempug (FBR), and to reveal the interaction patterns and dynamics of various fantasies of dramatically exchanged symbols. Organizational communication can be defined as the process of creating and exchanging messages in a network of interdependent relationships to cope with an uncertain or changing environment. This research approach uses a subjectivist in the interpretive category. This study uses a qualitative method by using a Symbolic Convergence approach which is subjectivist. The results show that the dynamics of sharing fantasy patterns on the theme of leadership and Betawi figures of FBR community organization depart from the rhetorical vision of the issue of the revival of Betawi in the past, the era before the formation of the State and long before the Dutch colonial era existed. Betawi is a culture that is noble and needs to be fought for. In the organization’s context, FBR is a forum for the struggle to unite the Betawi people by evoking Betawi cultural values and the struggle for the Betawi people’s lives. From the narrative analysis of the FBR community organization, the present storytellers are the leaders in the ranks of the FBR. The latter is considered the primary source of information for delivering the message of the existing dramatic stories. The meaning of leadership in a metaphorical context often gives rise to stories of Betawi’s character and leadership as village guards in the sense of an essential struggle that contains sincerity and loyalty to the area where they live.

A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Chinese Rhetorical Vision on Xinjiang Cotton Incident

At the end of March 2021, some international brands and international organizations boycotted Xinjiang cotton and related products in their commercial activities, which aroused great indignation among people from all walks of life in China, and people had come forward to stand up for Xinjiang as well as Xinjiang cotton. This paper lays emphasis on the response of Chinese people to the Xinjiang cotton incident and commits to analyze what and how the fantasy themes are able to achieve with regards to the creation of rhetorical visions within contexts of symbolic convergence theory.

Symbolic Convergence or Divergence? Making Sense of (the Rhetorical) Senses of a University-Wide Organizational Change

This research investigates the extent to which organizational change initiatives may lead to divergent patterns of sensemaking among organizational members. Drawing on the symbolic convergence theory, we performed an in-depth fantasy theme analysis of organization members’ rhetoric around an organizational change at a private university. Our analysis uncovers six fantasy themes and two corresponding fantasy types, which lead to no rhetorical vision. The lack of cognitive convergence between change initiators and change recipients suggests the inherent incompatibility between managerial and employee fantasies around organizational change, barring the exceptions of dual-responsibility change recipients (e.g., faculty members who also assume administrative responsibilities), who tend to adopt the change initiator rhetoric. Overall, this study informs our extant knowledge of change sensemaking with novel theoretical and methodological insights and bears implications for organizational change researchers and practitioners alike.

Analyzing Memetic Isolation Fantasy Themes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Normalization of a Previously Unknown Social Problem

The aim of this article is to analyze memes about social isolation introduced in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic. The author’s contact with memes during the first weeks of the pandemic (March–April) was initially motivated only by the desire to fill leisure time in such strange circumstances as the time of quarantine. With time, the observation began to take on a more systematic character, and the images found on the web became an interesting research material illustrating strategies undertaken to normalize and familiarize people with forced isolation and imposed social distancing, measures previously unknown in society on such a large scale. The material thus collected was analyzed using the fantasy themes analysis (FTA) method.

FANTASI KELOMPOK PENDUKUNG PRABOWO DI MEDIA SOSIAL PADA DEBAT PEMILIHAN PRESIDEN INDONESIA 2019

This research uses the theory of Symbolic Convergence, with the Subjective-Interpretive paradigm, with the Qualitative approach, and the Fantasy Theme Analysis method. The object of this research is the public audience/netizens who use Youtube-TVONE social media, during the broadcast of the 2019 Presidential Election Debate (Pilpres). Methods of data collection, using Observation and Documentation techniques. Netizens’ comments on Youtube social media at the time of the Debate show, are data that are the object of research. The research data is in the form of comments from netizens who are considered relevant are support presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto. The purpose of this study is to identify and interpret fantasy themes that appear in comments on Youtube. The results showed that fantasy themes that often appear in netizen’s comments are Leadership and Character. The meaning of the imagination of Prabowo’s support group is that the public wants Prabowo to be president, because he has a good character, honest, courageous, assertive, and has a leadership spirit, so he can regulate and discipline state ofcials and realize national economic independence. Prabowo’s support group was convinced that the president had to be replaced, because he did not have a leadership spirit, and the government was now considered less effective, and not pro-people.

Youth Literature on the Polish Publishing Market in 2008-2018 (Trends, Currents, Phenomena)

In 2008-2018, the Polish market of young readers’ books was subject to various fluctuations related to economic determinants, demogra-phy and changing cultural trends or fashions. The dynamics of sales was determined by best-selling fantasy series coming mainly from the Anglo-Saxon literature. Although Harry Potter was not followed by an equally successful novel cycle, the main elements of its marketing strategy have been duplicated and continued. An important reinforce-ment of the message was the screening of a particular plot, and thus its multiplication in various media channels. Fantasy themes often re-ferring to the elements of horror, Gothic novels, and even dystopian thrillers dominated. Generic syncretism and even various formal ex-periments in the spirit of deconstruction have become characteristic of the contemporary youth book market. In contrast, the list of awards of the Polish section of the IBBY stands in opposition to this trend, which promoted, in the overwhelming majority, novels of morals na-ture, addressing difficult and controversial problems of adolescence, interpersonal relationships, otherness, etc. In this context, we can ob-serve a change in the values promoted and a transition from an edu-cative normative system to glorifying freedom and tolerance towards a wide range of behaviors and attitudes.

KONSTRUKSI REALITAS SIMBOLIK GENERASI MILENIAL MELALUI TEMA FANTASI SELEBGRAM DI MEDIA SOSIAL

Media sosial telah berhasil membangun realitasnya sendiri di dunia maya, berdampingan dengan dunia nyata sebagai akibat adanya komunikasi antara individu dalam memaknai realitas dunia nyata dan diunggah menjadi konten di media sosial. Unggahan selebgram merupakan relasi antara idola dan penggemar yang memperkuat terjadinya konvergensi simbolik dan kesadaran kelompok yang kohesi karena selebgram menjadi influencer bagi generasi milenial. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengetahui konstruksi realitas simbolik dari selebgram sebagai influencer generasi milenial di media sosial melalui tema fantasi yang menimbulkan kesadaran bersama dan realitas simbolik bersama. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah paradigma naratif dengan pengumpulan data interpretatif dan pendekatan analisis melalui Fantasy Theme Analysis (FTA). Objek penelitian ini adalah 3 selebgram yaitu Awkarin, Princess Syahrini, dan Raden Rauf dengan pertimbangan memiliki follower banyak, aktif bermedia sosial, dan fenomenal. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan para selebgram membangun interaksi dengan penggemarnya dengan memanfaatkan tema fantasi untuk menghasilkan kebersamaan, kedekatan, makna, motif, serta perasaan bersama hasil konstruksi realitas simbolik bersama.  Social media has succeeded in building its own reality in cyberspace. It is side by side with the real world as a result of communication between individuals in interpreting real-world reality which is uploaded into ”content” on the social media. Some uploads from celebrities Instagram are a relationship between idols and their fans which strengthens the occurrence of symbolic convergence and cohesive group awareness, because all of celebrities Instagram become influencers for the millennial generation. The purpose of this study is to discover the construction of symbolic reality from various celebrities Instagram as the influencers of millennial generation on the social media through fantasy themes that raise the shared awareness and shared symbolic reality. The method used in this study was the narrative paradigm with interpretive data collection. It also employed analytical approaches through Fantasy Theme Analysis (FTA). The objects of this study were three celebrities: Awkarin, Princess Syahrini, and Raden Rauf with a consideration of having many followers, active social media, and being phenomenal. The results of this study indicate that celebrities build interaction with their fans by utilizing fantasy themes to produce togetherness, closeness, meaning, motives, and shared feelings as a result of the construction of shared symbolic reality.