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Abstract

This article reports the study of the use of WhatsApp Group (WAG) among primary school students who utilize the platform as a digital heterotopia. The study investigated: How is WAG used as a platform for sharing and exchanging YouTube content among primary school students?; How WAG is represented as a digital space for during their practices of sharing and exchanging YouTube content? The purpose of this research is to explore information dissemination activities, especially YouTube content WAG as a digital space for information sharing has become a heterotopia digital space. This qualitative research was conducted in Surabaya, Malang, Kediri, and Jember. Data was collected from indepth interview of 50 primary school students. This study found that firstly, the students do not only use their WAG to disseminate YouTube content for academic purposes, but also to turn WAG as a space of digital leisure. Children as the iGeneration immerse themselves into the cyberspace to interesting videos on YouTube, as well as game-related content which they share to their friends through WAG. Secondly, the existence of WAG for these students does not only serve as a space for educational purposes – exchanging academic content, but also as a space for social interaction, self-representation and con-structing self-identity. WAG among primary school students is a digital heterotopia as they can use it as a space for sharing and exchanging various YouTube content for their social loop, and social validation from their digital peers.

Bahasa Abstract

Penelitian ini membahas penyebaran konten-konten YouTube di kalangan anak-anak dan bagaimana WhatsApp Group (WAG) telah berkembang menjadi ruang digital heterotopia. Permasalahan yang dikaji adalah: (1) Bagaimana WhatsApp Group (WAG) dimanfaatkan sebagai media untuk membagi dan bertukar konten-konten YouTube di kalangan anak-anak SD? dan (2) Bagaimana representasi WAG sebagai ruang digital bagi anak-anak SD ketika mereka memanfaatkan konten video YouTube dalam WAG? Studi ini dilakukan di kota Surabaya, Malang, Kediri dan Jember. Dalam studi kualitatif ini 50 siswa SD diwawancarai secara mendalam. Kajian ini menemukan: Pertama, siswa SD tidak hanya memanfaatkan WAG untuk menyebarkan konten-konten YouTube yang berisi tugas-tugas akademik, tetapi juga menjadikan WAG sebagai ruang untuk digital leisure. Sebagai iGenera-tion, siswa SD menelusur dunia maya untuk menemukan konten YouTube yang unik dan spektakuler, serta cara memainkan game yang kemudian di-share dalam WAG. Kedua, bagi siswa SD, keberadaan WAG tidak hanya sebagai ruang untuk memberikan sumber informasi akademik dan bertukar pendapat tentang tugas sekolah, tetapi juga sebagai ruang interaksi sosial, ruang representasi diri dan ruang membangun identitas diri. WAG di kalangan anak-anak SD merupakan digital heterotopia karena mereka dapat memanfaatkannya untuk menyebarkan konten-konten YouTube, sehingga mereka mendapatkan tiket masuk dalam lingkungan pergaulan, dan pengakuan sosial dari lingkungan digital peergroup- nya.

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