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Indonesian Youth Culture inCreating Identities through Facebook
Esther
Kuntjara
Petra Christian University
Surabaya, Indonesia.
Slide2What does this presentation have anything to do with Language or Linguistics?
Slide3SPOKEN
Slide4WRITTEN
Slide5NON-VERBAL
Slide6ONLINE LANGUAGE (CMC)
SPOKEN + WRITTEN + NONVERBAL
Slide7SPEECH WRITINGSpontaneousRelated to immediate situational contextFace-to-face, immediateUnrecorded, transitoryUnfolding
Dialogic
Negotiable
Informal
Edited & prepared
Distance from situational context
Mediated , delayed
Recorded, permanent
Structured
Monologic
Non-negotiable
Formal
Slide8WHAT ABOUT THE USE OF NONVERBAL LANGUAGE?andOF BEING A MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY?
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Slide10WHAT IS INTERESTING ABOUT LEARNING ONLINE LANGUAGE (CMC)?
Slide11The WEB is more a social creation than a technical one
(Tim Berners-Lee)
Slide12The impact IT has to the world today has put more serious emphasis toward the change of human social life than the change of technology.
(David Crystal, 2009)
Slide13Why Facebook ?
Slide14IDENTITIES ARE CREATED, CONSTRUCTED AND RECONSTRUCTED
AS ONE WANTS
Slide15The on-line setting is an alternative site for members to negotiate identity and relationships in a way that is different from their off-line worlds.
Slide16Slide17Identity Construction in Postmodern TheoryIdentity becomes more and more unstable, more and more fragile.Identity tends to be subject to change.
Identity can always be reconstructed, that one is free to change and produce oneself as one chooses.
Identity is therefore unstable, fluid, fragmentary, disconnected, multiple, open, and subject to transformation.
(Baron, 2008;
Benwell
&
Stokoe
, 2006; Bauman, 2004; Crystal, 2009; Wilson, et.al, 2002;
Piliang
, 2005)
Slide18Questions:To what extent are identities created, constructed and reconstructed by Indonesian youth in Facebook?
How are gender, Indonesian politeness, and choices of topic and codes negotiated to affect their identities?
Slide19The Indonesian (Javanese) Context:Gender: Women are expected to be low profile, feminine and good at 3 Ms (Macak
,
M
anak
,
M
asak
[doing make up, reproduction, cooking])
Men are expected to be brave, assertive and ready to protect women.
Slide20Politeness Be humble / low profile when others compliment you. Do not show off.
Do not confront others directly for things you do not agree. (Be considerate to someone’s face)
Do not make other people feel embarrassed or hurt because of what you say or do.
Slide21MultilingualismBahasa Indonesia is basically a second language for many Indonesians.
Language used in daily communication is more of a hybrid language. Code switching and code mixing , twisting and lengthening of certain sounds
to reveal one’s mood are
common in informal communication.
Slide22Being male & female on-lineM= male ; F = femaleM: Selamat
jalan
guru
besar
bangsa
, Gus
Dur
.
Kami
akan
melanjutkan
semua
cita-cita
luhurmu.F: Ngewes2 ya nges… gayamu lo sok
berkabung loe …-----------------(M: Farewell our great guru, Gus Dur. We will continue all your noble dream.F: Huuuuhh … that style of yours, so pompous to feel like you’re upset because of his death...)
Slide23F is commenting on her niece’s picture:F: ponakanku rek, wis
gedhe
koyok
ngene
,
manis
pisan
… ;-)
M:
iyo
nggak
kayak
tante
ne
welek tenan, heheheh--------------( F : look at my niece, already so big, and sweet too … ;-) M : yes she isn’t like her aunt who is indeed very ugly, he
he he)
Slide24F is posting on her status about her voice.F : My voice gets harsh, it’s sexy, like the voice of Maria Carey.
M : Disgusting!
F : The same disgusting person doesn’t say that to each other!
Slide25M : Oi, Jess. Thx a lot :) Merry Christmas. Impress me again w/ your piano performance next year.F : hahaha....do u want to join me to play???!
M :
neah
, am far more talented than you ;P
Slide26F is complimenting on a photo of her former teacher.F : Is that Mrs. Monica? She still looks so young.M: That’s right. Just like me
Slide27F1 was upset with someone offline and many of her friends knew about it.F1 : Don’t ever disregard my seriousness!F2 : I see you are serious! Twice as much even hahaha
F3 : Agree. I believe you, there’s no doubt about it
hihi
F1 :
hik
hik
friends, I’m indeed serious. Not twice, not
3 times, just serious! No bargaining!
M1: Just add some sugar then. Isn’t that simple?
F1 : who said I need sugar? I’m already sweet. This is
more serious than M2’s case, you know.
Slide28F4 : Are you serious you want to have another baby?M2: I didn’t want to raise this issue actually.F5 : Serious to have another baby? I still doubt… but
I’ll try to believe …
hehehe
F1 : concerning that one I’m not serious.
don’t believe it … that’s gossip.
F6 : get another baby for when you get older, it’s
difficult to deliver the baby…
hehehe
F1 :
hahaha
… sounds like a personal experience.
Slide29DISCUSSION
The differences between
what is true and what is not
true
are blurred.
Slide30It is difficult to differentiatewhat is considered serious and what is just a jovial comment and therefore not true.
Slide31What is often considered impolite and rude in real life (offline) communication, may be accepted with ease when delivered in
Facebook
.
Slide32Face no longer constitutes a problem when people are throwing comments to each other. The more creative and provocative the response, the more creative feedbacks they get.
Slide33Gender differences does not seem to matter in
facebook
communication. Some stereotypes of women and men are blurred or crossed.
Slide34There is a tendency of upgrading one’s self identity while downgrading others, or of claiming one’s worth of praise while being denied by others.
One can therefore take multiple
identities with ease.
Slide35There is fluidity in topic switch, making the
decentering
of what is being discussed.
No focus is required
in making responses.
Slide36Every facebooker may introduce a new topic as long as the person can create a new interesting topic for others to comment on. A common feedback tends to end the “conversation”.
Slide37Summary Identities are created, constructed and reconstructed through the blurring and crossing of Indonesian gender stereotypes, the use of ‘impolite’ language and the manipulation of language use which violates standard Indonesian language, yet very often they are all accepted as entertaining and creative ways of communication.
Slide38Some Implication1. The possibility of someone to have multiple identities may disorient him/her of who he/she is; or to give him/her a chance to escape from his/her undesired self and be a different self which is more desirable.
Slide39A Facebook Profile can be more an expression of who one wants to be rather than who one really is.
(Baron, 2008, p. 85)
Slide402. The use of online language in Facebook may have revealed the change of the gender and other social life styles of Indonesian younger generations
. (
laissez-faire
culture / the ‘Whatever’ generation)
Slide413. Indonesian language which has often been the second language of many Indonesians could be marred by the use of colloquial language like the one used in the online communication.
Slide424.The hybridization of culture and language may still going on in the years to come making it more and more difficult to define what our national language and culture are.
Slide43References
Baron, N. S. (2008).
Always on: Language in an online and mobile world.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bauman, Z. (2004).
Identity.
Cambridge: Polity Press.
Benwell
, B. &
Stokoe
, E. (2006).
Discourse and identity.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Crystal, D. (2009).
Language and the internet.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Piliang
, Y.A. (2004).
Postrealita
.
Yogyakarta:
Jalasutra.Wilson, S.M. & Peterson, L.C. (2002). The anthropology of online communities. Annual Review of Anthropology, 31, 449-467.
Slide44Thank you!