This book is about the everyday cultural practices of communal television viewing by urban kampung people in Indonesia. It challenges the institutional frameworks and constructs about the television audience.It attempts to extend the investigation about the cultural practices of the kampung community in relation to media use in the era of competitive private television in the early 2000s.Taking up their social economic background and the particularities of socio-cultural circumstances of the kampung, this present study takes a close look into the day-to-day communal viewing practice of the...
This book is about the everyday cultural practices of communal television viewing by urban kampung people in Indonesia. It challenges the institutiona...
Each year during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Indonesian television stations adopt Muslim themes in virtually all of their programs, ranging from religious teaching to quiz programs to cooking shows to soap operas. The latter are Muslim-themed serials featuring melodramatic stories about upper- and middle-class women with an emphasis on prayer and devoutness.
This study investigates how these serials have contributed to constructing images of contemporary Islamic culture and urban Muslim women in Indonesia. Using textual analysis and audience ethnography, the author shows how...
Each year during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Indonesian television stations adopt Muslim themes in virtually all of their programs, ranging ...
