The lack of understanding and awareness on shark’s conservation in Indonesia is still largely found. Evidently, it could be seen from the massive reducing number of shark’s population, irresponsible consumption of shark meat, and constant activities on illegal, unregulated and unreported shark fishing and finning in Indonesia. On the other hand, shark existence is considered critical for sustainability in the marine area. In 2012, Savesharks Indonesia has started an online campaign on Twitter as their effort to raise public awareness of the critical role of sharks’ conservation. However, social media activism has the possibility to lead into ‘slacktivism’, or ‘feel good’ activism; without creating a meaningful impact for the cause. This article is intended to explore the relationship between online environmental activism and its implication toward the cause. On the first stage, we analyse the Twitter content in 2014 Savesharks campaign – based on Lovejoy & Saxton (2012) framework of communicative functions in Twitter environmental advocacy. On the second stage, we conduct interviews with informants who represent Savesharks’ campaign audience – to investigate the level of activism that the audience refers to in this campaign. Results indicate that Savesharks Indonesia online activism has reached the action stage where the audience were involved not only in online realm of activism but also in offline forms. However, the online activism of Savesharks Indonesia was reflecting more of a “populist political activism” (Lim, 2013). As such, it is still questionable whether the activism could lead to tangible political actions (e.g. influencing the environmental policies).
Autism, is a relatively 'current' concept in Indonesia, with the public awareness about autism in Indonesia only began emerging in 2000 and was particularly prevalent through online media. Today, the internet has become a recognized medium for self-narrative and self-expression for this group. Autistic people have participated online in a number of formats including autobiographical blogs, video awareness campaigns on YouTube, and through efforts to build online communities by utilizing social media. This paper will discuss the rise of autistic online presence in Indonesia by conducting in-depth interviews with five autistic persons in Indonesia. Data drawn from the interviews investigates the main questions for this research: (1) how they utilize social media to provide a self-narrative and as a tool for doing self-advocacy; and (2) how the internet could provide different ways of understanding autism. Results indicate that social media acts as an embedded media for autistics, as they are using it extensively in daily activities, as well as a mediated tool for self-advocating and communicating their narratives.
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