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Social Media : as a safe space for Indonesia’s queer community — Muhammad Omar Shaquille Ariawan
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3 responses to “Social Media : as a safe space for Indonesia’s queer community — Muhammad Omar Shaquille Ariawan”
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Hi Muhammad! Really interesting presentation about a marginalised group in Indonesia using the internet to create community. I have some questions after watching your analysis:
1. Do you have any specific evidence of community forming on social media? Byron & Demanjee (2025) talks abour influencers, but what are some examples of the communities forming as a result? Perhaps more screenshots of the social media users could help.
2. What specific affordances, like those discussed in Bucher & Helmond (2018), do these platforms actually give queer users, and how are they used specifically by queer communities in Indonesia?
3. Digital diaspora can play a part in the happenings of a community in the origin country (Whitteborn, 2019), how might Indonesians abroad help form queer communities for all Indonesians both at home and away. -
Hi Omar! It was interesting to hear your perspective on how LGBTQ+ Indonesians find a safe space thorugh social media 🙂
I have some questions that i would like you to engage with and further elaborate on your presented topic:
1) In my case study on the LGBTQ+ Harry Potter fandom, I analyse how publics and communities are created through social media affordances. Could you further elaborate on these topics, and how exactly Indonesian Queer communities are formed and maintained?
Perhaps you could mention the participatory culture of social media and the affordances beyond hashtags that enable these communities to form.2) You mentioned the presence of algorithms on TikTok (and X) used to connect the Indonesian queer community across the large surface area of the country, and on a global scale. Could you further explain what algorithms are, how they work in structuring communication and visibility, and how influencers, such as the one you mentioned, make use of them to connect with like-minded users or reach targeted audiences, such as Queer Indonesians?
3) You briefly mentioned that some individuals who share or create content and are part of the Indonesian Queer community receive substantial hate. Based on your topic of safe spaces in a digital landscape, given that users in Indonesia, may still face censorship, harassment, and possible legal implications, how can specific features within TikTok and X/Twitter contribute to safe community building and spaces for the queer Indonesian community?
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Hi Omar! It was interesting to hear your perspective on how LGBTQ+ Indonesians find a safe space thorugh social media
I have some questions that i would like you to engage with and further elaborate on your presented topic:
1) In my case study on the LGBTQ+ Harry Potter fandom, I analyse how publics and communities are created through social media affordances. Could you further elaborate on these topics, and how exactly Indonesian Queer communities are formed and maintained?
Perhaps you could mention the participatory culture of social media and the affordances beyond hashtags that enable these communities to form.2) You mentioned the presence of algorithms on TikTok (and X) used to connect the Indonesian queer community across the large surface area of the country, and on a global scale. Could you further explain what algorithms are, how they work in structuring communication and visibility, and how influencers, such as the one you mentioned, make use of them to connect with like-minded users or reach targeted audiences, such as Queer Indonesians?
3) You briefly mentioned that some individuals who share or create content and are part of the Indonesian Queer community receive substantial hate. Based on your topic of safe spaces in a digital landscape, given that users in Indonesia, may still face censorship, harassment, and possible legal implications, how can specific features within TikTok and X/Twitter contribute to safe community building and spaces for the queer Indonesian community?
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