University of Singaperbangsa Karawang

Soft life as feminine resistance to digital productivity culture: a multi-platform netnographic study of Gen Z women on TikTok and X

Since the mid-2020s, young women on short-video platforms have increasingly turned from the ‘girlboss’ ideal of relentless productivity towards the sensibility known as ‘soft life’. Soft life is understood here as a mediated sensibility in which rest, emotional safety and freedom...

Reading Public Sentiment Through AI: Communicative Meaning-Making and Literacy Dynamics of X Posts Surrounding Indonesia’s Free Nutritious Meal Program

This article reports how public discourse surrounding Indonesia’s program makan bergizi gratis (PMBG) [free nutritious meal program] evolves through digital platforms and how AI-enabled sentiment analysis can illuminate broader communicative dynamics. Drawing on 25,000 X (formerl...

‘If trust breaks, everything ends’: stigma, risk and the cultural production of care in an Indonesian partner-swapping community

Consensually non-monogamous people and communities are heavily stigmatised and in much of the world remain hidden from public life and from the health systems meant to serve them. Swingers, in particular, are an under-recognised sexual-health risk group that services struggle to...