THE DIGITAL NATIVE’S PERCEPTION TOWARD THE TIMELINE ‘TWITTER’ OF DIGITAL IMMIGRANT’S AT SMKN 7 JEMBER
THE DIGITAL NATIVE S PERCEPTION TOWARD THE
TIMELINE TWITTER OF DIGITAL IMMIGRANT S AT
SMKN 7 JEMBER
THESIS
By:
MU ALIFAH PRASANTI
09360112
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
THE DIGITAL NATIVE S PERCEPTION TOWARD THE
TIMELINE TWITTER OF DIGITAL IMMIGRANT S AT
SMKN 7 JEMBER
THESIS
By:
MU ALIFAH PRASANTI
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
THE DIGITAL NATIVE S PERCEPTION TOWARD THE
TIMELINE TWITTER OF DIGITAL IMMIGRANT S AT
SMKN 7 JEMBER
THESIS
This thesis is subbmited to meet one of the requirements to
achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
MU ALIFAH PRASANTI
09360112
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
This thesis written by Mu alifah Prasanti approved on October 30, 2013.
By:
Advisor II,
Advisor I,
Drs. Munash Fauzie, M.M
Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd
i
This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of Faculty of Teacher
Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
And accepted as one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
On October 30, 2013
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Dr. Poncojari Wahyono, M. Kes
Examiners:
Signatures:
1. Dr. Sudiran, M.Hum
1.
2. Rahmawati Khadijah Maro, S.Pd., M.PEd
2.
3. Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd
3.
4. Drs. Munash Fauzie, M.M
4.
ii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
There is no life without failure, defeat, and fallen.
Keep prayer, try, and be sure in every single thing.
Berilmu, Beriman dan Beramal
(Anonymous)
DEDICATION:
I dedicate this thesis to :
Allah SWT always gives me new experience in my life,
My beloved parents who always make me strong and pray for me
My beloved sister who always supporting me with pray and love
My sweety boy who always providing me with love and care
And
My whole friends who always support me.
iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
Alhamdulillah, all praise to Allah SWT for the mercy and generous.
Because of His powerful guidance, blessing, and affection, the researcher can
finish this thesis. Sholawat and peace are always for our prophet Muhammad
SAW, who bring us from darkness to the lightness.
My great appreciation and gratitude is for Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd as my 1st
advisor and Drs. Munash Fauzie, M.M as 2nd advisor. Thank you for the kindness,
advice, criticism, motivation, and patience in guiding me to doing my thesis. I am
very grateful to have them as my advisor and for all the time they gave me during
the writing process of this thesis.
My gratitude to my family, my father Bambang Prayitno, my mother Rinik
Wahyuni thank you for all the time spent to pray for me, always gives spirit and
motivation, always gives advice financial, and encouragement in keeping my
focus. My sister Annisa Devi for supporting me with love in their prayer. My
sweety Andy Yahya thank you for providing me with love and care.
For my all my best friends class B, my big family kosan 10A (Nancy, Iffa,
mbak Indri, Ismy, Vevy, Linda, Aulia and etc.), big family Soeparto s Thesis
Guidance (Ramli, Irma, Dwi, Bintang, Dyah, Ocha and etc.) and for all of my
friends who cannot mention one by one for their encouragement, love, care and
pray so that I can finish this thesis.
Malang, 30th October 2013
The Researcher,
Mu alifah Prasanti
iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL SHEET ................................................................................................i
LEGALIZATION ................................................................................................... ii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION .............................................................................. iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ....................................................................................iv
ABSTRACT.............................................................................................................v
TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................vi
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of The Study ...................................................................................... 1
1.2 Statement of The Problems .................................................................................... 5
1.3 Purposes of The Study ............................................................................................ 5
1.4 Significance of The Study....................................................................................... 5
1.5 Scope And Limitation ............................................................................................. 5
1.6 Definition of The Key Terms.................................................................................. 6
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 The Definition Of Perception ................................................................................. 7
2.1.1 Types Of Perception ...................................................................................... 7
2.1.2 Influencing Factors Of Perception ................................................................. 8
2.1.3 Process Of Human Perception ....................................................................... 9
2.2 Digital Native........................................................................................................ 10
2.3 Digital Immigrant.................................................................................................. 11
2.4 Twitter .................................................................................................................... 12
2.4.1 Home twitter............................................................................................... 12
2.4.1.1 Tweet
..13
2.4.1.2 Retweet
..13
2.4.1.3 Followers
2.4.1.4 Following
14
.
. 14
vi
2.4.1.5 Direct Messages
..
2.4.1.6 Hashtags (Signs #)
..
..14
..15
2.4.1.7 Trending ..................................................................................................
Topic
..15
.
2.4.2 Profile............................................................................................................16
2.4.2.1 Timeline
.17
2.4.2.2 Photos
.18
2.4.2.3 Info
.18
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design ............................................................................................19
3.2 Research Subject
.
.. 20
3.3 Research Instrument .................................................................................... 20
3.3.1 Questionnaire
... 20
3.3.2 Observation..
... 22
3.4 Procedure Data Collection ........................................................................... 23
3.5 Data Analysis .............................................................................................. 24
CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Research Findings ...........................................................................................25
4.2 Discussion .......................................................................................................28
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion......................................................................................................29
5.2 Suggestion ......................................................................................................31
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ary, Donald. et. al. 2002 Introduction to Research In Education, 6th ed. Belmont: Wadsworth
Thomson Learning .
Bennet,S.J and Maton,K. 2010. The Digital Native debate.Faculty of Education, University of
Wollongong
Bogdan, Robert C and sari knopp Biklen. Qualitative research for education: an introduction to
theory & methods. Boston: Allyn and Baccon, 1986.
Gillham, B. (2008). Developing a questionnaire (2nd ed.). London, UK: Continuum
International Publishing Group Ltd
Lahey, Benyamin B. Phsychology an Introduction, 8th. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004
Palfrey, John and URS Gasser. 2008. Born Digital Understanding the First Generation of
Digital Natives. New York. Basic Books.
Prensky, Marc. 2001. Digital Native, Digital Immigrant, Part I and Part II. From on the
Horizon: NCB University Press, Vol. 9 no. 5.
McMillan. 1992. Educational Research: Fundementals for the Consumer. Addision-Wesley
Educational Publishers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questionnaire_construction (27 October 2013, Monday)
✁✂✄☎✆✝ ✞
✟✠☎✝✡☛☞ ☎✟✡✠
In this chapter, some aspects of introduction of this thesis are explained.
Those aspects are: Background of study, Statement of problem, Purpose of study,
Significance of the study, Scope and limitation and Definition of key terms.
✞✌✞ ✍✎✏kground of study
Technology is the usage and knowledge of techniques, gadget, crafts,
system or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or solve some
purpose that cannot be separated with people life. Almost all people in the world
depend on technology to help them doing anything. The development of
technology will influence the people s life style who surrounding by technology at
that time, such as the perception, learning style, etc.
Recently people conduct communication electronically rather than travel to
long distant location, such as internet (Mark Prensky, 2001). As the technology of
internet is growing fast. People can do their activities like shop online, sending
electronic massage (email), e-book. The most important thing is social network.
A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social
relations among people who applied it. For example, share their interests,
activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. A social network service consists
of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety
of additional services. Online community services are sometimes considered as a
social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually
1
means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are
group-centered. Social networking sites are allowed by some users to share their
ideas, pictures, posts, activities, events, and interests with people in their network.
Nowadays, the well-known social networking is a twitter.
Twitter is a mini blog in social website (Boyd, 2009) an information network
made up of 140-character messages called Tweets. This is news, easy way to find
the latest news or what was going on, especially with regard to the things that you
enjoy doing. Twitter contains information you will find valuable. It was like sent a
newspaper headline that they always find interesting. We can find the news at the
time was going on, to learn more about topics that are important, and get
information straight from the actual sources. It is usually called a timeline.
According to Kidd (2010: 183) a digital natives is generation born in the digital
age, the student who grew up never knowing a world without computers.
According to Bennett, Maton and Kervin (2008) Digital Natives are those
born roughly after 1980s. Digital natives are people who have grown up in the
digital world using technology as a way to communicate record, educate and
understand society. Digital natives have very fluid and constant communications
just not on the phone with the rise of texting, chat and social media news feeds,
digital natives are highly connected with those in their personal networks.
According to Prensky (2001) the natives have subtle differences in speech,
social interaction, and are fluent in the digital communication forms that are
prevalent in the new land. A communication form of digital native is using
computer language. It means that the development of digital native s language is
2
related to the technology development. Internet, television, movie, room chat and
social networking are factors that influence language development of digital
native. It is different with digital immigrant that not too familiar with technology.
According to Marc Prensky (2001), digital immigrants are those of us
who were not born into the digital world. They cannot learn to use technology
effectively and efficiently, but they will always have an accent (Prensky, 2011)
as they learn the language of technology. It is the reason why digital immigrant
quite different with digital native. This condition causes many misunderstanding
between digital immigrant and digital native so that they might have the different
perception.
Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting information
received from outside world (Lahey, 2004: 114). According to Rahmat, (2001:51)
perception can be obtained by inferring information and interpret the message.
There are two types of perception: positive and negative perception. Positive
perception can be said as a good perception and negative perception is a bad
perception. Rahmat (2001) states there are two factors that influence perception.
First is personal factor or internal factor comes from two sources; physical and
psychological. The second one is situational factor/external factor are stimulus
and environment factors where perception is continuous.
The above description is a theoretical consideration about digital native vs
digital immigrant, twitter and perception. The following discussion will be about
the some previous studies about perception and twitter conducted by Anggita
(2012), Rahayu (2012) and Dessy (2011).
3
A research conducted by Anggita (2012) the researcher found 82 alay
words in composing tweet. The period of collecting tweets around 2 weeks.
Started from 3rd
17th on june 2012.The researcher think that the alay word also
has a changes the function of a number of letter(based on physical appearance)
and letter as number (based on spelling). These research studies show that the
language use on twitter is important to be discussed because then language out of
the theory of word formation.
Rahayu (2012) Digital Natives Perception toward the Mobile Phone
Roles in School at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Malang reveals that the digital native
needs mobile phone in school during the class to help them knowing something
about the lesson that they did not know before by searching in internet. It is
showed that digital natives are familiar with technology. They cannot be separated
with the technology.
Dessy (2011) investigated about media social that digital native usually
use is twitter. Twitter is a simple communication that have many function. Twitter
is easy to use and fast to get information. There are interested in picture, video and
sounds. Because of this statement the digital native more interest to using twitter
in their communication.
Based on the explanation above, it is clear that it is important to
investigate the perception digital native toward the digital immigrant status update
because no one has investigated this topic. Moreover, the writer wants to know the
perception of the digital native toward used on twitter status update. From the
background above, the researcher wants to know what are the perceptions of the
digital native toward the timeline of the digital immigrants at SMKN 7 JEMBER.
4
1.2 Statement of the problem
By considering the background of the study explained above,the problem is
formulated as follow How is the Digital Natives perceptions toward the timeline
twitter of digital immigrant at SMKN 7 JEMBER?
1.3 Purpose of study
In line with the statement problems above, the purpose of study is to know
the Digital Native s perception toward the timeline of digital immigrant at SMKN
7 JEMBER.
1.4 Significance of the study
After this study has been completed, theoretically the researcher attempts to
provide a real description about the digital native perception toward the timeline
of digital immigrant at SMKN 7 JEMBER.
1.5 Scope and Limitation
The scope of this study focused on digital immigrant perception in time line.
The researcher limits the study on digital native perception toward the timeline of
digital immigrant at SMKN 7 JEMBER.
1.6 The definition of key term
According to the title of this thesis, the writer wants to present the definition
key term that can be use to make the readers easy to understand that the writer is
trying to write and classify the problem t be discussed in this script.
5
The definition of the terms used are as follow:
1. Timeline on Twitter :Twitter timelines are list of tweets or messages
displayed in the order in which they were sent, with the most recent on
top. (Irma and Ramly)
2. Digital Native
:Those of us born roughly after 1980s. Digital
natives are people who have grown up in the digital world using
technology as a way to communicate (Bennett, Maton and Kervin, 2008)
3. Digital Immigrant
: Those of us born roughly before 1980s. Digital
Immigrant, those of us who were not born into the digital World (Pernsky:
2001)
6
7
TIMELINE TWITTER OF DIGITAL IMMIGRANT S AT
SMKN 7 JEMBER
THESIS
By:
MU ALIFAH PRASANTI
09360112
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
THE DIGITAL NATIVE S PERCEPTION TOWARD THE
TIMELINE TWITTER OF DIGITAL IMMIGRANT S AT
SMKN 7 JEMBER
THESIS
By:
MU ALIFAH PRASANTI
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
THE DIGITAL NATIVE S PERCEPTION TOWARD THE
TIMELINE TWITTER OF DIGITAL IMMIGRANT S AT
SMKN 7 JEMBER
THESIS
This thesis is subbmited to meet one of the requirements to
achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
MU ALIFAH PRASANTI
09360112
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
OCTOBER 2013
This thesis written by Mu alifah Prasanti approved on October 30, 2013.
By:
Advisor II,
Advisor I,
Drs. Munash Fauzie, M.M
Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd
i
This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of Faculty of Teacher
Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
And accepted as one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
On October 30, 2013
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Dr. Poncojari Wahyono, M. Kes
Examiners:
Signatures:
1. Dr. Sudiran, M.Hum
1.
2. Rahmawati Khadijah Maro, S.Pd., M.PEd
2.
3. Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd
3.
4. Drs. Munash Fauzie, M.M
4.
ii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
There is no life without failure, defeat, and fallen.
Keep prayer, try, and be sure in every single thing.
Berilmu, Beriman dan Beramal
(Anonymous)
DEDICATION:
I dedicate this thesis to :
Allah SWT always gives me new experience in my life,
My beloved parents who always make me strong and pray for me
My beloved sister who always supporting me with pray and love
My sweety boy who always providing me with love and care
And
My whole friends who always support me.
iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
Alhamdulillah, all praise to Allah SWT for the mercy and generous.
Because of His powerful guidance, blessing, and affection, the researcher can
finish this thesis. Sholawat and peace are always for our prophet Muhammad
SAW, who bring us from darkness to the lightness.
My great appreciation and gratitude is for Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd as my 1st
advisor and Drs. Munash Fauzie, M.M as 2nd advisor. Thank you for the kindness,
advice, criticism, motivation, and patience in guiding me to doing my thesis. I am
very grateful to have them as my advisor and for all the time they gave me during
the writing process of this thesis.
My gratitude to my family, my father Bambang Prayitno, my mother Rinik
Wahyuni thank you for all the time spent to pray for me, always gives spirit and
motivation, always gives advice financial, and encouragement in keeping my
focus. My sister Annisa Devi for supporting me with love in their prayer. My
sweety Andy Yahya thank you for providing me with love and care.
For my all my best friends class B, my big family kosan 10A (Nancy, Iffa,
mbak Indri, Ismy, Vevy, Linda, Aulia and etc.), big family Soeparto s Thesis
Guidance (Ramli, Irma, Dwi, Bintang, Dyah, Ocha and etc.) and for all of my
friends who cannot mention one by one for their encouragement, love, care and
pray so that I can finish this thesis.
Malang, 30th October 2013
The Researcher,
Mu alifah Prasanti
iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL SHEET ................................................................................................i
LEGALIZATION ................................................................................................... ii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION .............................................................................. iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ....................................................................................iv
ABSTRACT.............................................................................................................v
TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................vi
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of The Study ...................................................................................... 1
1.2 Statement of The Problems .................................................................................... 5
1.3 Purposes of The Study ............................................................................................ 5
1.4 Significance of The Study....................................................................................... 5
1.5 Scope And Limitation ............................................................................................. 5
1.6 Definition of The Key Terms.................................................................................. 6
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 The Definition Of Perception ................................................................................. 7
2.1.1 Types Of Perception ...................................................................................... 7
2.1.2 Influencing Factors Of Perception ................................................................. 8
2.1.3 Process Of Human Perception ....................................................................... 9
2.2 Digital Native........................................................................................................ 10
2.3 Digital Immigrant.................................................................................................. 11
2.4 Twitter .................................................................................................................... 12
2.4.1 Home twitter............................................................................................... 12
2.4.1.1 Tweet
..13
2.4.1.2 Retweet
..13
2.4.1.3 Followers
2.4.1.4 Following
14
.
. 14
vi
2.4.1.5 Direct Messages
..
2.4.1.6 Hashtags (Signs #)
..
..14
..15
2.4.1.7 Trending ..................................................................................................
Topic
..15
.
2.4.2 Profile............................................................................................................16
2.4.2.1 Timeline
.17
2.4.2.2 Photos
.18
2.4.2.3 Info
.18
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design ............................................................................................19
3.2 Research Subject
.
.. 20
3.3 Research Instrument .................................................................................... 20
3.3.1 Questionnaire
... 20
3.3.2 Observation..
... 22
3.4 Procedure Data Collection ........................................................................... 23
3.5 Data Analysis .............................................................................................. 24
CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Research Findings ...........................................................................................25
4.2 Discussion .......................................................................................................28
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion......................................................................................................29
5.2 Suggestion ......................................................................................................31
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ary, Donald. et. al. 2002 Introduction to Research In Education, 6th ed. Belmont: Wadsworth
Thomson Learning .
Bennet,S.J and Maton,K. 2010. The Digital Native debate.Faculty of Education, University of
Wollongong
Bogdan, Robert C and sari knopp Biklen. Qualitative research for education: an introduction to
theory & methods. Boston: Allyn and Baccon, 1986.
Gillham, B. (2008). Developing a questionnaire (2nd ed.). London, UK: Continuum
International Publishing Group Ltd
Lahey, Benyamin B. Phsychology an Introduction, 8th. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004
Palfrey, John and URS Gasser. 2008. Born Digital Understanding the First Generation of
Digital Natives. New York. Basic Books.
Prensky, Marc. 2001. Digital Native, Digital Immigrant, Part I and Part II. From on the
Horizon: NCB University Press, Vol. 9 no. 5.
McMillan. 1992. Educational Research: Fundementals for the Consumer. Addision-Wesley
Educational Publishers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questionnaire_construction (27 October 2013, Monday)
✁✂✄☎✆✝ ✞
✟✠☎✝✡☛☞ ☎✟✡✠
In this chapter, some aspects of introduction of this thesis are explained.
Those aspects are: Background of study, Statement of problem, Purpose of study,
Significance of the study, Scope and limitation and Definition of key terms.
✞✌✞ ✍✎✏kground of study
Technology is the usage and knowledge of techniques, gadget, crafts,
system or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or solve some
purpose that cannot be separated with people life. Almost all people in the world
depend on technology to help them doing anything. The development of
technology will influence the people s life style who surrounding by technology at
that time, such as the perception, learning style, etc.
Recently people conduct communication electronically rather than travel to
long distant location, such as internet (Mark Prensky, 2001). As the technology of
internet is growing fast. People can do their activities like shop online, sending
electronic massage (email), e-book. The most important thing is social network.
A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social
relations among people who applied it. For example, share their interests,
activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. A social network service consists
of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety
of additional services. Online community services are sometimes considered as a
social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually
1
means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are
group-centered. Social networking sites are allowed by some users to share their
ideas, pictures, posts, activities, events, and interests with people in their network.
Nowadays, the well-known social networking is a twitter.
Twitter is a mini blog in social website (Boyd, 2009) an information network
made up of 140-character messages called Tweets. This is news, easy way to find
the latest news or what was going on, especially with regard to the things that you
enjoy doing. Twitter contains information you will find valuable. It was like sent a
newspaper headline that they always find interesting. We can find the news at the
time was going on, to learn more about topics that are important, and get
information straight from the actual sources. It is usually called a timeline.
According to Kidd (2010: 183) a digital natives is generation born in the digital
age, the student who grew up never knowing a world without computers.
According to Bennett, Maton and Kervin (2008) Digital Natives are those
born roughly after 1980s. Digital natives are people who have grown up in the
digital world using technology as a way to communicate record, educate and
understand society. Digital natives have very fluid and constant communications
just not on the phone with the rise of texting, chat and social media news feeds,
digital natives are highly connected with those in their personal networks.
According to Prensky (2001) the natives have subtle differences in speech,
social interaction, and are fluent in the digital communication forms that are
prevalent in the new land. A communication form of digital native is using
computer language. It means that the development of digital native s language is
2
related to the technology development. Internet, television, movie, room chat and
social networking are factors that influence language development of digital
native. It is different with digital immigrant that not too familiar with technology.
According to Marc Prensky (2001), digital immigrants are those of us
who were not born into the digital world. They cannot learn to use technology
effectively and efficiently, but they will always have an accent (Prensky, 2011)
as they learn the language of technology. It is the reason why digital immigrant
quite different with digital native. This condition causes many misunderstanding
between digital immigrant and digital native so that they might have the different
perception.
Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting information
received from outside world (Lahey, 2004: 114). According to Rahmat, (2001:51)
perception can be obtained by inferring information and interpret the message.
There are two types of perception: positive and negative perception. Positive
perception can be said as a good perception and negative perception is a bad
perception. Rahmat (2001) states there are two factors that influence perception.
First is personal factor or internal factor comes from two sources; physical and
psychological. The second one is situational factor/external factor are stimulus
and environment factors where perception is continuous.
The above description is a theoretical consideration about digital native vs
digital immigrant, twitter and perception. The following discussion will be about
the some previous studies about perception and twitter conducted by Anggita
(2012), Rahayu (2012) and Dessy (2011).
3
A research conducted by Anggita (2012) the researcher found 82 alay
words in composing tweet. The period of collecting tweets around 2 weeks.
Started from 3rd
17th on june 2012.The researcher think that the alay word also
has a changes the function of a number of letter(based on physical appearance)
and letter as number (based on spelling). These research studies show that the
language use on twitter is important to be discussed because then language out of
the theory of word formation.
Rahayu (2012) Digital Natives Perception toward the Mobile Phone
Roles in School at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Malang reveals that the digital native
needs mobile phone in school during the class to help them knowing something
about the lesson that they did not know before by searching in internet. It is
showed that digital natives are familiar with technology. They cannot be separated
with the technology.
Dessy (2011) investigated about media social that digital native usually
use is twitter. Twitter is a simple communication that have many function. Twitter
is easy to use and fast to get information. There are interested in picture, video and
sounds. Because of this statement the digital native more interest to using twitter
in their communication.
Based on the explanation above, it is clear that it is important to
investigate the perception digital native toward the digital immigrant status update
because no one has investigated this topic. Moreover, the writer wants to know the
perception of the digital native toward used on twitter status update. From the
background above, the researcher wants to know what are the perceptions of the
digital native toward the timeline of the digital immigrants at SMKN 7 JEMBER.
4
1.2 Statement of the problem
By considering the background of the study explained above,the problem is
formulated as follow How is the Digital Natives perceptions toward the timeline
twitter of digital immigrant at SMKN 7 JEMBER?
1.3 Purpose of study
In line with the statement problems above, the purpose of study is to know
the Digital Native s perception toward the timeline of digital immigrant at SMKN
7 JEMBER.
1.4 Significance of the study
After this study has been completed, theoretically the researcher attempts to
provide a real description about the digital native perception toward the timeline
of digital immigrant at SMKN 7 JEMBER.
1.5 Scope and Limitation
The scope of this study focused on digital immigrant perception in time line.
The researcher limits the study on digital native perception toward the timeline of
digital immigrant at SMKN 7 JEMBER.
1.6 The definition of key term
According to the title of this thesis, the writer wants to present the definition
key term that can be use to make the readers easy to understand that the writer is
trying to write and classify the problem t be discussed in this script.
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The definition of the terms used are as follow:
1. Timeline on Twitter :Twitter timelines are list of tweets or messages
displayed in the order in which they were sent, with the most recent on
top. (Irma and Ramly)
2. Digital Native
:Those of us born roughly after 1980s. Digital
natives are people who have grown up in the digital world using
technology as a way to communicate (Bennett, Maton and Kervin, 2008)
3. Digital Immigrant
: Those of us born roughly before 1980s. Digital
Immigrant, those of us who were not born into the digital World (Pernsky:
2001)
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