Twitter has once again proven its significance as the media that facilitates social movement in the bomb blast tragedy in Jakarta. Twitter, a social network website which provide a room for people to communicate with their networks by answering a simple question of “what are you doing?” has been turned by its users into a media to spread far more important information than breakfast menu or recent career promotion. Twitter has become the place for global celebration of information and a social movement mediator. (more…)
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Emancipated or Exploited?
Posted in human rights, life, women on January 24, 2009| 1 Comment »
Situasi perempuan masa kini yang sudah banyak mendapat kesempatan pendidikan dan mendapat kesempatan untuk terlibat di work force dan public institution sebenarnya tidak serta merta bisa di klaim sebagai ’hasil perjuangan kartini atau kelanjutan dari kongres perempuan di masa lalu itu’. Pengalaman menunjukkan bahwa perempuan menjadi ’emancipated’ lebih banyak karena tuntutan kapitalisme yang membuat lapangan kerja tersedia luas dan perlu diisi oleh siapa saja termasuk perempuan. (more…)