DOMESTIKASI TEKNOLOGI INTERNET: STUDI DI “KAMPOENG CYBER” RT 36 TAMAN, YOGYAKARTA

• Main Author: PRASETYO, A. Galih
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2014
• Subjects: Communications Technologies; Computer Communications Networks; Technology
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/130427/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=70849
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

This study examines the process of internet technology domestication undergone by neighbourhood community living in RT 36 Taman, Yogyakarta. By interrogating that domestication process, it can be understood to what extent the use of internet has become a part of resident‟s daily life. The community which becomes the subject of this research, which called itself as “kampoeng cyber”, has been adopting internet technology since 2008 as an effort to empower itself collectively. This effort develops further until now the majority of residents has installed and able to operate the internet in their houses. Since this community was increasingly recognized, a lot of guests from outside came to study the community‟s success. However, all social changes experienced by community do not alter the institutions and patterns of social life conducted by residents. These social backgrounds provide key contexts to rationally understand the domestication process which consists of four stages: appropriation, objectivication, incorporation, and conversion. The description of each stage brings this study into a finding that actor who conducts domestication (domesticator) in “kampoeng cyber” can be divided into three categories. The first category of domesticator is new users who know the internet after the establishment of “kampoeng cyber”; the second category of domesticator is users who know and install the internet before the establishment of “kampoeng cyber”; the third category of domesticator is users who were accustomed to use the internet before the establishment of “kampoeng cyber” but decided to install the internet in their houses after the establishment. This study also finds that some residents undergo de-domestication and re-domestication process unconsciously. The domestication stages experienced by users is not entirely happened in linear and orderly manner. Moreover, the reflection on research findings also discloses the theoretical drawbacks of domestication approach: its exaggerate valuation on the agentive capacity of technology, its assumption which relies too much on Western societies experiences, and its incapacity to deal with new and complex technology such as internet, which cannot be objectivied in conventional way and requires intermediary technology.