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Questioning Public Participation in Social Media Activities in Indonesia Sokowati, Muria Endah
Komunikator Vol 11, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18196/jkm.112025

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The growth of using social media in Indonesia since 2009 has enabled the user to contribute in online discussion, share opinion and feeling, or circulate the digital creativities. Social media gives opportunities to its users to be the content providers. The number of users take part of the discussion in social media has brought Indonesia mentioned as the capital of social media world. This label attached to Indonesia since some big cities in Indonesia, such as Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and Bandung recorded as the cities whose residents become the most active social media users in the world. This phenomenon leads to the assumption that social media is success in creating public participation. But, is it true? Based on data from Association of Internet service provider (APJII), the Internet users dominated by people from middle class, urban, young and well-educated groups. Some blank spots in Indonesia, the high price of technology, the lack of quality in operating and using technology become the problems causing the difficulty in implementing public participation. This paper tried to explore the misleading of the assumption that social media activities in Indonesia have created public participation. It also analyzes on how digital divide becomes the barrier to gain the public participation.
Questioning Public Participation in Social Media Activities in Indonesia Muria Endah Sokowati
Komunikator Vol 11, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18196/jkm.112025

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The growth of using social media in Indonesia since 2009 has enabled the user to contribute in online discussion, share opinion and feeling, or circulate the digital creativities. Social media gives opportunities to its users to be the content providers. The number of users take part of the discussion in social media has brought Indonesia mentioned as the capital of social media world. This label attached to Indonesia since some big cities in Indonesia, such as Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and Bandung recorded as the cities whose residents become the most active social media users in the world. This phenomenon leads to the assumption that social media is success in creating public participation. But, is it true? Based on data from Association of Internet service provider (APJII), the Internet users dominated by people from middle class, urban, young and well-educated groups. Some blank spots in Indonesia, the high price of technology, the lack of quality in operating and using technology become the problems causing the difficulty in implementing public participation. This paper tried to explore the misleading of the assumption that social media activities in Indonesia have created public participation. It also analyzes on how digital divide becomes the barrier to gain the public participation.
Multiple Instagram Accounts and the Illusion of Freedom Muria Endah Sokowati; Sefia Manda
Komunikator Vol 14, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18196/jkm.15914

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This article is motivated by the phenomenon of the ownership of multiple accounts on Instagram among teenagers. Previous research mentioned that a second Instagram account is used to express oneself without worrying that the identity of the users will be recognized by the public. Users feel they can upload anything on Instagram’s second accounts without following Instagram rules’ pressure of perfection. The second accounts become a sphere for users to perform their self-authenticity. The researchers inquire how teenagers use and manage their multiple Instagram accounts as a sphere for exploring themselves. Reflecting on the practice of surveillance between users through social media, including Instagram, the researchers argue that second Instagram accounts function as the sphere for pseudo-liberations for its users. Hence, the researchers also question how freedom is experienced in that sphere. The researchers use digital ethnography to get the answers to the questions. As a result, since the self is socially constructed and self-authentic, the researchers found that second accounts are not liberating their users. The constructed self-authenticity has shifted from the control of their parents and other adults; to their peers’ surveillance.