Author: Hayu Hamemayu

  • Elegi Dua Bungkus Teh Melati

    Tinggal dua bungkus tersisa. Untuk waktu yang tak lagi lama. Harum aroma teh melati. Yang kuseduh tiap pagi. Mengawali hari.. Tapi aku tak sambat. Untuk waktu yang kian dekat. Seperti teh itu aku pasrah. Diseduh air panas yang membuatku gerah. Seperti teh itu waktu akan menjelma hangat. Kian bersahabat. Terasa manis sekaligus sepat. Biarlah hanya… →

  • Modernisation within Globalisation: The Era of Risk and Opportunity

    Globalisation has a strong correlation with modernisation. From the early modernisation (i.e. when Columbus discovers America in 1492) to today’s modernisation, there has been a rapid acceleration on globalisation. The development of globalisation has been escalated to the max especially after the 20th century. This period is also the third phase in modernisation, which is signified… →

  • Media World vs. Real World: Globalisation and Our Unequal Relationship With Media

    The innovation of technology has been an inseparable part of globalisation. From the invention of printing press to the born of Internet, there is always a strong bond between technology and globalisation especially with the communication and media technology. Flew and Cunningham (2001, p. 77) state, “Developments in communication media are important in all the… →

  • A thing called Globalisation

    I cannot remember vividly when was the first time I heard the word: globalisation. But, as long as I can remember, that word has been always emerging in almost every discussion I involved. I heard the word globalisation in my school, in television, in mosque, and even, in my family’s dinner chat. Crane (2002, p.… →

  • The Transformation of Authenticity: How mass technologies change the way we think about Benjamin’s concept of authenticity

    As the mass technologies are growing rapidly, the Benjamin’s concept of authenticity is now at stake. Walter Benjamin’s statement “the presence of the original as a prerequisite to the concept of authenticity” (Benjamin, 1970, p. 222) is no longer relevant since we are now living in an era in which reproduced and mass-produced images are… →