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Antropologi Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesian youth has developed into the largest internet user in this country. The development of technology drives the digital natives toward new challenges in identity attainment (personhood). It is common for young people to have a “storm and stress” phase in their life which is part of their identity attainment as one of the major and basic tasks of youth daily life. However, along with youth behavior in using internet, a generational problem emerges. The problematic behavior pattern includes taking dangerous selfies, sexting, cyberbullying, and promoting the radical activism. Through a research conducted with online observation and virtual ethnography, we reveal that these concerning phenomena occur due to asymmetric relation between youth (digital natives) and their predecessors (digital immigrants) during identity shaping process. Youth nowadays stand between two forms of knowledge which are different from each other: on one side, the virtual knowledge system that does not know the boundary of time and space, and on the other side is the knowledge that is enculturated through the family institution which tends to be more exclusive and traditional. Young people are in a complex situation when their parents, or the generation before them, face difficulty in adapting to technological advancement. Such condition is problematic since virtual interaction become an essential reference for the digital natives in shaping their personhood.

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