Konstruksi Budaya Populer: Telaah Konseptual dan Media “Perlawanan” Kekuasaan pada Media Komunikasi Generasi Millenial

Abstract

The development of gadgets delivered humans to the era of social media. then, it divides humans into three generations. They are the Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennial Generation. Baby Boomers are humans born between 1945-1964. Generation X is a human born between 1965-1985. Millennials are humans born between 1986 and 2000. Interestingly, the Millennial generation has a tendency to be bold, innovative, creative and modern. This courage is what brings change, especially the courage to raise social problems that were previously considered by people to be inappropriate to look at but turned out to be very influential or often called pop culture through social media. The high number of Indonesian population, especially at the age of the Millennials who utilize digital technology as social media, has a high level of access to popular culture. So, this allows the rebellion against power by things that show disobedience to field facts, symbolic action or fictional scenes. Furthermore, this inadequacy feels free and the state cannot control even with the constitution and rules that it already has.