Tag: academic essay

  • 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 →

  • From Illegal Graffiti to Legal Mural: a Bias in Today’s Cultural Jamming

    Nowadays, the concept of cultural jamming is often criticised because it has been losing its original spirit: “to challenge the status quo and to foster the ideals of the Englightment” (Cammaerts, 2007, p. 88). According to Cammaerts (ibid), today’s cultural jamming is nothing more than just an entertainment as well as political or marketing strategy. →

  • On Western Media Coverage: How Media Orientalise Terrorism

    The orientalism concept is often criticized for its stigmatised stereotype and its hegemonic colonial history. As Said believes, “the relationship between orient and occident is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degree of a complex hegemony” (1978, p. 5). Unfortunately, instead of helping people to gain “richer truths about the world around us” →

  • Mendamba Televisi Lokal yang Melokal

    Keberadaan insitusi media tak lain adalah untuk menjawab kebutuhan informasi yang dimiliki masyarakat. Mereka hadir untuk membuat masyarakat tahu apa yang tadinya tidak mereka tahu dan mengurangi tingkat ketidakpastian atas suatu kejadian atau peristiwa. Tak terkecuali dalam situasi bencana. →