Social Media and Celebrity

 

 

Celebrities have become the glue of our social. In contemporary society, it is relatively impossible to turn on the television or pick up a newspaper without finding mention of some celebrity and his or her new deeds or misdeeds. This is because of the proliferation of media regarding celebrities. Celebrities are human pseudo-events (qtd. in Boorstin 720)

Living in globalization era, we can clearly see that celebrities now become a massive part of the social media. They also play important role of the whole social media network since they can easily connect with the public than before especially when Twitter becomes so much happening.

Based on David Marshall about the increasing trend that is blurring the lines between public and private self,  a huge celebrity contribute to the social media is not necessarily leads to the  good influence. Take for example Prince Harry case. ” Prince Harry’s privacy has been invaded. After choosing to show off the crown jewels to a bevy of frolicking maidens in Las Vegas, paparazzi took his naked photo and spread it globally. Besides those conventional photos, public are now get information about a video of his antics is being hawked around for the highest bidder.

So, there is a huge changing from the situation of NO mobile phone and internet can easily spread information globally to ALL media (social media, new media, etc), mobile phones, and other gadgets which support internet service can easily spread information globally and build the whole world knew about it.

Referencing Lists:

Express & Star 2012, Should The Sun have printed Prince Harry pics?, retrieved 4 September 2012 <http://www.expressandstar.com/lifestyle/blogs/2012/09/03/should-the-sun-have-printed-prince-harry-pics/?mh&gt;

Deborah King Center 2011, The Impact Celebrities Have on Our Lives, retrieved 4 September 2012 <http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/resources/celebrities/&gt;

Gregory, K 2008, Celebrities: Who They Are, How They Gain Popularity, and Why Society Is So Fascinated with Them and Their Court Cases, Eastern Michigan University Digital Commons @ EMU, retrieved 4 September 2012 <http://commons.emich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1149&context=honors&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.au%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dthe%2520role%2520of%2520celebrities%2520in%2520society%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D2%26ved%3D0CCgQFjAB%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcommons.emich.edu%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1149%2526context%253Dhonors%26ei%3DsOFFUIOiE4qaiAf_tIGICQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNHI9bsTPJuoCSDci48ea8WWpvHrRA#search=%22role%20celebrities%20society%22&gt;

Protect our culture from globalization

Globalization of cultural heritage has some negative impacts in some areas. Akande (2002) seems to understand more of this negative impact when he said that western adventures made efforts to undermine the cultural heritage of various peoples around the world through colonization, imperialism and now globalization. Take for example Indonesia. Indonesa is a developing country who has huge impact of globalization. However, this country cannot protect their culture well. It is so because there are many cultures of Indonesia are stolen or claimed from its neighbor country, Malaysia.

These are the example of Indonesia’s original culture which are claimed by Malaysia

1. Batik, United Nations Education Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) representative list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

2. Pendet Dance, Malaysia put Pendet Dance as their visit year ads.

3. Wayang Kulit (puppet show), Puppet show has been recognized by UNESCO on November 7, 2003, as the work of an amazing culture in the field of narrative story and legacy of beautiful and valuable (Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity).

4. Angklung, Sundanese musical instrument is listed as Masterpieces of Oral Heritage and Human Nonbendawi of UNESCO since November 2010.

5. Reog Ponorogo,

6. Lumping Horse Dance,

7. Rasa Sayange song, Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage Malaysia, Rais Yatim admitted that Rasa Sayange belongs to Indonesia on 11 November 2007.

8. Rafflesia Arnoldi flower

9. Keris, terdapat satu panel relief Candi Borobudur (abad ke-9) yang memperlihatkan seseorang memegang benda serupa keris.

etc.

Even though Indonesian people can reclaim their culture, but this situation indicates that they cannot manage or protect their own culture because their culture had appeared in some media and stated as someone else’s culture.

referencing list:

Kementrian Dalam Negreri Indonesia 2012, Budaya Indonesia yang pernah diklaim Malaysia, retrieved 4 September 2012, <http://www.depdagri.go.id/news/2012/06/18/budaya-indonesia-yang-pernah-diklaim-malaysia&gt;

Mercy U, Cyril C, E. Asogwa 2011, Globalization of Cultural Heritage: Issues, Impacts, and Inevitable Challenges for Nigeria, Library Philosophy and Practice 2011, retrieved 4 september 2012 <http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/nwegbu-eze-azogwa.htm&gt;

Twittersphere

Tweeting becomes a new habits in this globalization era. Twitter not only for getting information network, blogging platform, or as a social networking site, BUT ALSO as a new life style. It enables its users to send and read messages for only 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page. A “tweet” consists of a brief sentence that essentially allows the user to answers the question: What are you doing?

“Twitosphere” and “Twitterverse,”is statistics for the Twittersphere that consist of some datas for instance: which days of the week have the dense Twitter traffic. it aslso can be used to measure the approximate number of followers Twitter users have; for example, more than half have less than 25, while approximately 5% have more than 250. Other measurements of interest are how many people follow multiple tweets and how many tweet writers follow other tweet writers.

Based on Research from comScore, Indonesia has the biggest number of twitter users among other countries. It can be said that Indonesia is  most Twitter-addicted nation. According to the data, 20.8 percent of Indonesians online visited Twitter during June 2010, with the country scoring the highest percentage rate of Twitter usage amongst of any nation’s online population. In other words, even though Indonesia is one of the developing and not as powerful or strong country in the world, the globalization impact for this country is very huge. Indonesia also can easily make headlines, trending topics, or popular discussion. Moreover, Indonesia to be Asia’s Twitter capital, as the most addicted Twitter users in the world.

referencing lists:

 

 

Hubpages 2011, The Twitter phenomenon, retrieved 1 September 2012, <http://anath.hubpages.com/hub/The-Twitter-phenomenon&gt;

Parker, K 2008, The Twitter Phenomenon — In Touch, Always, in Cyberspace, retrieved 1 September 2012 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120202935.html?sid=ST2008122500674&gt;

PCMag, 2102, Twittersphere, retrieved 1 September 2012 <http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=Twittersphere&i=60386,00.asp&gt;

Russell, J 2010, Indonesia recognised as world’s biggest Twitter addict, retrieved 1 September 2012 <http://asiancorrespondent.com/38839/research-proves-indonesia-is-worlds-biggest-twitter-addict/&gt;

Making culture

Most people said that the impact of globalization in the cultural aspect has generally, been viewed  in a dramatic decrease. Usually, it has been linked with the damaging of cultural identity, cultural acceleration victims, homogenized westernized, etc. This view, the constituency for which extends from (some) academics to anti-globalization activists (Shepard and Hayduk 2002), tends to interpret globalization as a seamless extension of – indeed, as a euphemism for – western cultural imperialism.

Based on Yale Global, there are so many people who sensitively with the disappearance of culture and cultural identity. Besides that, most cultures across the world at critical situation of decreasing their own languages. Linguists predict that over half of the almost 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will disappear by the end of the century.

Australia, for example. More than 20 million of Australian population are the most culturally and linguistically diverse populations in the world. Aborigine is an Indigenous Australians and the original inhabitants of the Australian continent, but has faded over time. Moreover, 26.8% of the Australian resident population were born outside Australia.

One of the most crucial aspect that can distinguish one culture to another is food. Each culture in every single country has own special food. For example, for those people who want to eat  Italian food can just go to Italian restaurant since there are many italian restaurants available in every countries or on Lygon street in Melbourne. Indonesian restaurants are also available in Melbourne such as Nelayan restaurant, Pak E’, Selero Kito. In other words, each country has own traditional food which represent its culture.

Referencing List

Lynton, M 2007, Globalization and Cultural Diversity, The Wall Street Journal, retrieved 31 Agustus 2012, < http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/globalization-and-cultural-diversity&gt;

The Racism, Australia’s cultural diversity, retrieved 31 Agustus 2012 < http://www.racismnoway.com.au/about-racism/population/index.html&gt;

Tomlinson, J 2003, Globalization and Cultural Identity, p.269