Persona in Social Media: A Case Study on Baim Paula Youtube Channel

Social media enables its users to participate in creating and sharing media contents through their accounts; thus, it gives opportunity to gain popularity for anyone, including celebrity.  This paper is aimed at revealing celebrities’ strategy to increase and maintain their popularity by constructing self-image through social media. Videos from Baim Paula youtube channel are selected as the main data of the analysis, considering Baim Wong’s success as celebrity and content creator. Using textual approach, the vidoes created and shared are analized as a cultural text which demonstrates celebrities’ self-representation in social media. The result shows that Baim Wong performs various self- images through his videos contents. His prank videos indirectly indicate authenticity and honesty entitled to Baim Wong’s image, as a strategy to create closeness to his fans. He also construcs an altruistic persona by giving presents and/or money to his pranked targets. Another self-representation is seen in videos about his daily activities with family and friends. Through these videos, Baim Wong constructs his image as a family man. The persona performed in social media has successfully attracted more fans/ subscribers and enhanced his fame. Subsequently, it generates profit not only from his YouTube channel, but also from advertising agencies and TV stations that hire him

Female Monsters: Figuring Female Transgression in Jennifer\u27s Body (2009) and the Witch (2013)

This paper aimed to examine the depiction of the monstrous feminine in two horror flms, 2009\u27s Jennifer\u27s Bodyand 2015\u27s The Witch, by investigating how horror flms confront transgression through the construction of woman as a monstrous fgure in the story. The theory of abjection proposed by Julia Kristeva and of the monstrous feminine by Barbara Creed were used in the analysis. The main data were taken from these two flms, focusing on the characterization and narrative aspects. It was found that the depiction of the monstrous feminine in both flms was through the use of monstrous acts and images. The way in which these flms constructed monstrosity indicates female transgression of patriarchal boundaries, specifcally on the issue of gender identity and religiosity. The transgression emphasizes that there is no absolute identity, and thus boundaries are disrupted due to this fluid identit

PRAKTIK KERUANGAN DAN KETERASINGAN: STUDI WARUNG KOPI DI KOTA PURWOKERTO, BANYUMAS JAWA TENGAH

Keberadaan warung kopi di Kota Purwokerto telah begitu marak. Fenomena tersebut dapat menjadi penanda perubahan ruang kota. Warung kopi menjadi ruang sosial baru bagi masyarakat Kota Purwokerto. Dalam warung kopi terkandung berbagai lapisan makna. Dalam warung kopi terjadi interaksi individu maupun kelompok yang membentuk makna berupa wacana, simbol, maupun citra untuk merepresentasikan diri, relasi yang dijalin, dan juga ruang atau situs terjadinya interaksi. Dalam warung kopi terjadi proses produksi ruang. Tujuan tulisan ini adalah berusaha menggali lapisan makna dalam praktik keruangan di warung kopi. Menggunakan metode kualitatif, tulisan ini mengambil data melalui cara observasi dan wawancara mendalam. Tulisan ini berdasarkan pemahaman bahwa warung kopi merupakan wujud perubahan dari pengembangan ruang kota di Kota Purwokerto. Dalam warung kopi terjadi dialektika beragam gerak, interkoneksi, interaksi uang, orang dan komoditas. Tulisan ini berpendapat bahwa warung kopi merupakan ruang persepsual hasil dari proses pengembangan ruang kota yang dikonstruksi beragam elemen dan kepentingan. Alih-alih menjadikan manusia yang menghidupi ruang hidup mereka, pertumbuhan warung kopi menghasilkan manusia yang teralienasi.

Exploring the Narrative Spaces of Change in Jejak Warna: Cerita tentang Perubahan (2019) Web Series

Jejak Warna: Cerita tentang Perubahan (Color Trail: A Story of Change) web series talks about a man named Arya who is stuck with his monotonous life and memory of his ex-girlfriend. His life changes when he meets Kinar – his new colleague. This study explores how the narrative space conveys the idea of change by analysing the mise-en-scène elements of the web series. The result shows the depiction of spaces which change from spaces that bind the protagonist in his dull routine and memory to a space that liberates and offers him new life and adventure. The change is strengthened by the changing nuances of spaces depicted through composition and lighting, sound (dialogue and music), and the character's expression and movement within the spaces

<Articles>Two Dark Stories from Rural Indonesia: Comparing the Poverty in Turah (2016) and Siti (2014)

This paper examines the unsettling stories of poverty from rural Indonesia in two films, Siti (2014) and Turah (2016). The concept of structural poverty enables a thorough analysis of these films' depictions of poverty and the main characters' reactions to the poverty they experience. This paper also employs the concept of gendered poverty to highlight how gender injustice perpetuates the poverty of women, as depicted in the films. Both structural and gendered poverty are propagated by the interpellation of ideological state apparatuses. This paper argues that the poverty of the rural people depicted in both films results from structural engineering by the elite, not from natural or inevitable conditions. This poverty is further intensified by the patriarchal culture of rural communities, which perpetuates gender inequality and results in deeper poverty for women. Every woman in these two films seems to have accepted, or at least resigned herself to, the patriarchal system and the gendered poverty it produces. The sole exception is Siti, who struggles against the double burden of being both housewife and breadwinner, resisting the naturalization of poverty and thereby revealing the role that ideological state apparatuses play in perpetuating oppression in society writ large as well as in individuals' minds and souls

THE HUNGER GAMES: REPRESENTING THE NEW IMAGE OF AMERICAN POPULAR HEROES

This research is aimed at revealing the new image of American popular heroes as depicted in the novel adaptation film of The Hunger Games which is created as a trilogy, which consists of two more novels: Catching Fire and Mockingjay. This film is one of the most phenomenal films in 2013-2104, which grossed out up to $407,999,255. This research used textual approach, which focused on the text as the object, that is The Hunger Games film. The result shows that The Hunger Games essentially brings the issue of slavery back into scrutiny. However, the creation of the heroin in the film is granted as the reconstruction of popular heroes in America. She is an inspiring female hero which is exemplified as the appreciation of womens values. Yet, the heroin is broadly defined with the qualities of rouge heroes as the characteristics are the representation of the belief and values associated with freedom to wash away the oppression restore the rights of the minority. In addition to the issue of slavery , the symbols of new hope and new spirit are implicitly emerged in the story. This attempt was proficiently done by the heroin, which was eventually created as the new image of the American heroes

The Reconstruction of Korean Wave in Indonesian Fan Fiction

AbstractRecently, literary world is enriched by the emergence of a new form of fiction called fan fiction, which refers to a fictional writing produced by fan writers as an expression of love towards their idolized stars. The emergence of fan fiction in Indonesia recently is in line with the attack of Korean wave or Hallyu to Indonesian showbiz. This article is talking about Indonesian Korean fan fiction reconstruction based on several approaches proposed by Jenkins (1992). The approaches, which cover recontextualization, expanding the series timeline, refocalization, moral alignment, genre shifting, cross-over, character dislocation, personalization, emotional intensification, and eroticization, are used as the ways to guide fan writers in reconstruct a story about an idol that cannot be found in real life. Using those approaches, a fan writer can freely express their adoration toward the figures they idolize. This article aimed at specifically cutting open some Indonesian fan fictions entitled “Tormented”, “Wonder Boy”, and “Way Back into Love”, based on Jenkin’s approaches, using descriptive qualitative research method. The analysis shows that there are   six approaches used by the writers in reconstructing the stories; refocalization, moral alignment cross-over, character dislocation, personalization, and eroticization. Keywords:   character dislocation , cross-over, eroticization, fan fiction, Korean wave, moral alignment, , personalization, refocalization.