research аas аritten, guided bв mentors and other professors аho shaped author‟s knowledge about cultural studies and this topic in general.
Idea for this research came from paper in „Art Studies‟ subject in Februarв 2013. The main point of that paper was conflict of two paintings in the 19th century which depicts
Pangeran Diponegoro. It grows to the idea of how Pangeran Diponegoro is depicted within Indonesian framework
– fifty years ago and the question- is he still an actual motif? The timeframe for this research is set from September 2013 until May 2014.
B. Locus of Research
There is no pure looking with a naked, innocent eye
- Pearce 1971 – this statement
explains main points why qualitative descriptive analyses descriptive content analyses is chosen to conduct this research. Research using qualitative data analysis is defined as
research that produces descriptive data in the form of words and or phrases, including actions that can be observed by emphasizing concept development and understanding of
existing patterns in the data; notice settings and people holistically not as variables separately; tends to be humanistic; understanding of the meaning which the actions of
participants and understand the circumstances of limited scope Sandelowski, 2001. To know any phenomenon or event or experience requires, at the very least,
knowing the
facts
about that phenomenon. Yet there are no
facts
outside the particular context that gives those facts meaning. The descriptions always depend on the perceptions,
inclinations, sensitivities, and sensibilities of the one who describes. Descriptive content analysis examines the qualitative as well as quantitative data collected through various
methods, in this research those will be analyses of the painting and the documents about them. An aim of this analysis is to summarizing the informational contents of these data
with respect to the research question – in this research that one is how national hero
Pangeran Diponegoro is depicted in the paintings from the 19th century until today. perpustakaan.uns.ac.id
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The procedure steps in descriptive content analyses are: -
Define the research questions – depiction of national hero -
Review the collected data with respect to the research questions – literary and theory review about the concepts of heroism in Indonesia, visual semiotics and
Postcolonial theory. -
Identify the informational content with respect to the research question – this part will be discussed in the next, main chapter of this research, together with last step
- Prepare a concise descriptive summary of the key informational contents.
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C. Data and Source of Data
