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Media Use and Mediatization of Transnational Political Participation: The Case of Transnational Indonesians in the United States

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Mass Communication (Communication).
This dissertation explores the interplay between diasporic life of transnational Indonesians in the United States and their use of media to engage in the long-distance politics of their home country. It aims to investigate how, and to what extent, that people in diaspora use media to perform mediatization of transnational-homeland politics. In this dissertation, I also exemplified the theory of mediatization of politics by examining the appropriation of various media platforms by Indonesian diaspora in two metropolitan areas, Washington, D. C. and Los Angeles, both in their electoral and non-electoral political engagement. Utilizing a multi-sited media ethnographic, which includes ten months of participant observations and thirty in-depth interviews between October 2014 and July 2015, I examine the complexity of Indonesian diaspora’s relationship with media and transnational politics. In my empirical chapters, in addition to the discussion of increasing availability of homeland media content in diaspora, I analyze how the presence of diaspora spaces enabled these displaced nationals to foster their sense of community, which eventually would help them to maintain their relationship with their country of origin’s matters, including politics. While Indonesian diaspora exhibited dual-nature of media use, accessing both host land and homeland media, it was the consumption of homeland political news that I found as the most prominent practice demonstrated by overseas Indonesian to mediatize their long-distance political participation. Furthermore, in various diasporic political engagements, media practice was not only amalgamated with non-media political activism, but to some extent, also was considered to be the preexisting condition of transnational Indonesians’ involvement in their home country’s political sphere. Finally, this dissertation argues that the degree of mediatization of transnational politics was amplified by both media and non-media factors. While media factors included structural and individual elements, such as media and audience availability, non-media factors were associated with the issues of homeland and host land conditions, where each factor should be understood as interrelated. Despite some variations, most of people in diaspora had an equal chance to participate in home country’s politics due to the availability of Indonesian political content, mainly through online and social media, which highlights the multifaceted mediatization of politics of diasporic community.
Drew McDaniel, Dr. (Advisor)
Roger Cooper, Dr. (Committee Member)
Robert Stewart, Dr. (Committee Member)
Gene Ammarell, Dr. (Committee Member)
431 p.

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  • Setianto, Y. P. (2016). Media Use and Mediatization of Transnational Political Participation: The Case of Transnational Indonesians in the United States [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461247603

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Setianto, Yearry. Media Use and Mediatization of Transnational Political Participation: The Case of Transnational Indonesians in the United States. 2016. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461247603.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Setianto, Yearry. "Media Use and Mediatization of Transnational Political Participation: The Case of Transnational Indonesians in the United States." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461247603

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)