Scholar-Activists And The Campus Workers Union Movement In Indonesia: A Media Review

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10.2991/978-2-38476-247-7_58How to use a DOI?

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scholar activist; cyborg; media practice; mediation; mediatization

Abstract

Today's social movements cannot be separated from the role of technology, including social media. The impetus to form a social movement by the academic community in combating the subordination of academic power and the neoliberalization of education in Indonesia. A number of lecturers who then had a critical view of this policy then consolidated themselves to be involved in the movement and organized themselves in a union, namely the Campus Workers Union or what is called SPK. The expansion of this movement cannot be separated from the role of technology, namely social media. Today, social media plays a significant role in social movements. Social media helps social movements in terms of building social networks, promoting social movements, and also mobilizing real-world participation. This article then intends to discuss Donna Haraway's philosophical thoughts on the cyborg practices that exist in the SPK movement. The cyborg perspective is then brought together with three media concepts that are closely related to social movements, namely media practices, mediation, and mediatization, as initiated by Alice Mattoni and Emiliano Treré. This article proposes the application of Donna Haraway's cyborg philosophical thinking to the practical implications of using social media as manifested in the life cycle of the SPK movement. The practical implications, for example, relate to explaining how the temporal character of the movement, the role of actors, and the dynamics that make the movement progressive and do not rule out the opposite, so that it needs to be anticipated.

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AU  - Yuseptia Angretnowati
AU  - Melaty Anggraini
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DA  - 2024/09/04
TI  - Scholar-Activists And The Campus Workers Union Movement In Indonesia: A Media Review
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advance Research in Social and Economic Science (ICARSE 2023)
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