Walter J. Ong, S.J.: A retrospective

Communication Research Trends usually charts current communication research, introducing its readers to recent developments across the range of inquiry into communication. This issue, however, takes a different tack, looking back on the writings of Walter J. Ong, S.J., who died at the age of 90 in August 2003. Ong spent his scholarly career at Saint Louis University, where he served as University Professor of Humanities, the William E. Haren Professor of English, and Professor of Humanities in Psychiatry at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. In a career that spanned 60 years, Ong published 16 books, 245 articles, and 108 reviews. In addition, he edited a number of works and gave interviews that further explored his wide-ranging interests. Readers interested in a full bibliography of Ong’s works should refer to the web site prepared by Professor Betty Youngkin at the University of Dayton, at http://homepages.udayton.edu/~youngkin/biblio.htm. From the perspective of an interest in connections among many areas of human knowledge over such a long career, he explored a whole gamut of activities by careful observations of the threads that run through western culture and by insightful analysis of what he observed. Communication forms one of those many threads in the West—perhaps the dominant one—and so it occupies a similar place in Ong’s work. The tapestry Ong weaves has, bit by bit, influenced thinking about communication as well as research. And so, Communication Research Trends looks back on the writings of Walter Ong, S.J

AJÉN BUDAYA DINA KASENIAN DUR ONG DI DÉSA CIKALONG KACAMATAN CIKALONG WÉTAN KABUPATÉN BANDUNG BARAT PIKEUN BAHAN PANGAJARAN DI SMA KELAS XII

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh kurangnya pengetahuan masyarakat terhadap kebudayaan lokal, khususnya Kesenian Dur Ong. Walaupun kesenian Dur Ong sudah ada sejak beberapa puluhan tahun di Desa Cikalong, Kecamatan Cikalong Wetan, Kabupaten Bandung Barat, tetapi tidak semua masyarakat Kabupaten Bandung Barat dan Desa Cikalong mengetahui adanya kesenian Dur Ong. Oleh sebab itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui asal-usul dan sejarah perkembangan kesenian Dur Ong, pertunjukan kesenian Dur Ong, nilai-nilai budaya yang terdapat pada kesenian Dur Ong serta bahan pembelajaran membaca artikel tentang kebudayaan. Penelitian ini dianalisis menggunakan metode deskriptif. Data dikumpulkan menggunakan teknik observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian ini mencakup gambaran umum asal-usul dan sejarah perkembangaan kesenian Dur Ong, pertunjukan kesenian Dur Ong, nilai-nilai budaya yang terdapat pada kesenian Dur Ong serta bisa dijadikan alternatif bahan pembelajaran membaca artikel tentang kebudayaan di kelas XII. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, awal perkembangan kesenian Dur Ong di Tagog Apu, Kecamatan Padalarang. Kemudian berkembang di Desa Cikalong, Kecamatan Cikalong Wetan. Kesenian ini hasil kreasi para seniman Dur Ong yaitu dari proses difusi dan akulturasi. Nilai-nilai budaya, fungsi, dan makna yang terdapat pada kesenian Dur Ong erat kaitanya dengan proses pendidikan karakter yang bisa diterapkan dalam pembelajaran di sekolah. Manfaat dari penelitian ini yaitu menambah ilmu pengetahuan masyarakat dan rasa bangga terhadap kesenian yang ada di daerahnya masing-masing. This research is motivated by the lack of public knowledge of the local culture, especially Dur Ong art. Although Dur Ong art had been around for decades in Cikalong Village, Cikalong Wetan District and West Bandung Regency, but not all of the people of West Bandung Regency and Cikalong Village aware of any Dur Ong art. Therefore, this study aims to determine the origins and historical development of Dur Ong art and Dur Ong art performances, cultural values contained in Dur Ong art and material culture of learning to read articles about. This study analyzed using descriptive methods. Data were collected using observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study include a general overview of the origins and historical development of Dur Ong art and Dur Ong art performances, cultural values contained in Dur Ong art and can be used as an alternative material to read the article about the culture of learning in class XII. Based on the results of this reseach, the initial development of the Dur Ong arts in Tagog Apu, Padalarang District. Then developed in Cikalong Village, Cikalong Wetan District. This art created by the Dur Ong artist is of diffusion and acculturation process. Cultural values, functions, and meanings contained in Dur Ong art close relation to the process of character education that can be applied in learning process at school. The benefits of this research that adds to the science community and a sense of pride in the arts in their respective regions

International student subjectivities: biographical investments for liquid times

The international student as an object of study has typically been understood through the frame of cultural identity, mapped back to notions of fixed, static notions of cultural difference. In contrast, this study seeks to understand how the practice of international study has emerged as an increasingly popular ‘biographical solution’ (Beck 1992, Bauman 2002) in order to pursue imagined career trajectories in a globalised and competitive world. Informed by recent studies of middle class strategy in Asia (Pinches, 1999) and the transnational Chinese diaspora (Ong 1999, Ang 2001) that challenge essentialist accounts of timeless Asian values and East-West binaries, the paper analyses interview data collected from ‘Asian’ international students attending preparatory programs at an Australian university. Specifically, the paper discusses the disciplinary formation of the ‘international student’ – the take-up of self-Orientalizing discourses (Ong, 1999), and engagement in practices of auto-ethnography (Pratt, 1998). In addition, the paper explores students’ critiques of, and resistances to Orientalist discourses, and pragmatic willingness to submit to local demands to further their longer term goals. Preparatory programs emerge not so much as life-changing locations but rather necessary transit lounges, for the acquisition of cultural distinctions along their life routes

PERANCANGAN PROGRAM PEMAHAMAN DIGITAL SIGNATURE DENGAN METODE ONG-SCHNORR SHAMIR

PERANCANGAN PROGRAM PEMAHAMAN DIGITAL SIGNATURE DENGAN METODE ONG-SCHNORR SHAMIR - Kriptografi, Digital Signature, Scheme Ong-Schnorr-Shamir, subliminal channel, enkripsi, dekrips