Welcome to Kampoeng Cyber : Community 2.0 in Indonesia

30 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013

16.1 Ms. Ivana Prazic

Warga Negara : Serbia Jabatan : Ph.D. Student Institusi : Department of Asian Studies, The University of Sydney No. SIP : 265SIPFRPSMVII2013

17. Welcome to Kampoeng Cyber : Community 2.0 in Indonesia

Tujuan Penelitian : Mengkaji perubahan pola-pola interaksi sosial masyarakat Yogyakarta yang berbasiskan teknologi informatika internet dan media sosialita Bidang Penelitian : Antropologi Budaya Daerah Penelitian : DI Yogyakarta Lama Penelitian : 12 dua belas bulan mulai 22 April 2013 Mitra Kerja : Fakultas Budaya UGM Dr. Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono Abstrak This research, entitled “Welcome to Kampoeng Cyber”: Community 2.0 in Indonesia” will be an anthropological exploration of the cultural impact of the Internet in an urban community in central Java. The focus of the research will be on the “Kampoeng Cyber” community RT 36 in Yogyakarta, Java. In 2008 this community initiated an Internet cooperative which has successfully provided all of its residents with wireless Internet access. Studying this community will give me the opportunity to understand the role of the Internet, and especially social networking sites, in the cultural practices and social relations of people living in RT 36, and by extension, Indonesia. The research will address the above objective by answering the following questions: a How do electronic communication practices such as internet-based social networking relate to Javanese patterns of communication and sociality that pre-date these forms of new media?, and b what is the role of the Internet in the production of the “imagined community” Anderson 1998 and the “community of practice” Baym 1999:22 in the 31 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 combined physical and virtual realm of Kampoeng Cyber? The main objectives for these inquiries are to expand the focus of Internet-based studies beyond their base in the West e.g. Coleman 2012; English-Leuck 2002; Malaby 2009, to suggest alternative ways of theorizing and researching the role of the Internet in shaping notions of community that go beyond the debate over technological versus cultural determinism Miller and Slater 2000; Latour 1991; Latour 1996; Pfafenberger 1988; Schaniel 1988, etc. and to challenge the dichotomy between online and oline worlds Boellstorf 2008. The methods for this research will consist of 12 months of cultural immersion in Kampoeng Cyber, where I will conduct ethnographic research involving observation and participation in daily activities, structured and semi-structured interviews with community members, focus-group interviews, and surveys. I will also engage in “netnography,” which involves gathering publicly available content from social networking sites or private conversations, blogs, and websites related to Kampoeng Cyber online activities. I will also trace online and oline social networks through social network analysis.

17.1 Ms. Jessika Tremblay