Lily El Ferawati Rofil

Binus University | binus · Faculty of Economics and Communication

This study explores the uses of Islamic television content in bridging the gap between Javanese and Malay identity among the Malay women of Javanese descent in Malaysia. Malaysian religious television programmes have constantly promoted the Islamic identifications of Malayness, enabling the Malay audience to reconstruct the culturally religious ide...

This article discusses how cultural values drive the ways students engage in a Learning Management System (LMS) and perceive its usability from the perspective of Intercultural User Interface Design (IUID). Universities around the world employ LMS as an integral part of online learning but the cultural significance of the interface design remains u...

This article discusses the early findings of a qualitative study on information-processing behaviors in using a Learning Management System (LMS) among undergraduate students with intellectual disabilities. The study focuses on how special-need students seek, discern, and make use of academic and non-academic information in the process of learning....

The 2019 Asrama Papua conflict in Surabaya initiated many discourses on racial discrimination and police brutality towards Papuan students in Indonesia. The question arises as to how the public perceive news framing and its effects on public opinion. This question will be answered by examining reports in the newspapers Kompas (published in Jakarta)...

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This article discusses the cognitive reasoning behind the love for watching sinetron expressed by Malay-Javanese women in Malaysia. The Malay-Javanese women in this context refer to female members of Javanese communities within Malay society. Malaysians of Javanese descent are constitutionally considered as ethnic component of Malay racial group du...

This article discusses the ethnographic nature of audience studies and the practices of audience ethnography in Kampung Papitusulem, Sabak Bernam. Although ethnography has been adopted in the studies of media reception worldwide, it is not a popular methodological tradition among the media and communication researchers in Malaysia. However, conside...

This article addresses the contention of cultural identity in a traditional healthcare practice among Malay women of Javanese descent in Malaysia. The Malaysian Javanese are constitutionally recognised as Malays. However, in some aspects of life, particularly traditional healthcare practices, this community still retains the ways and images of bein...

This article discusses the interpretation of television in relation to ethnic identity embraced by the female members of Javanese diaspora in Malaysia. The Javanese diaspora in this context refers to the descendants of the colonial Javanese migrants from Indonesia. In contemporary Malaysia, they are considered as Malays, but essentially they retain...

This article serves as a qualitative analysis of the relationships between the consumption of television news and political participation in rural Malaysia during 2013 General Election (GE13). The debates following the results of GE13 raise the awareness of rural-urban divide, which is associated with the differences of news engagement between rura...

This article discusses the consumption of television and the construction of everyday identities among the Malay women of Javanese descent in Sabak Bernam. Malaysian Javanese communities that constitute Malay society are exposed to the Malay identity discourses through various channels including television. At the same time, they maintain Javanese...

Artikel ini membincangkan penontonan televisyen dalam kalangan wanita keturunan Jawa di Sabak Bernam dan hubungannya dengan pembentukan identiti seharian. Masyarakat keturunan Jawa di Malaysia diiktiraf sebagai bangsa Melayu dan terdedah dengan budaya arus perdana negara ini melalui pelbagai saluran seperti televisyen. Pada masa yang sama, mereka m...

This paper discusses how the Javanese female descendants in a Malaysian rural community negotiate with Malay identity projection in the midst of mediated cultures. The Javanese descendants in Malaysia constitute today's Malay population who simultaneously practice the Javanese and Malay culture. In a daily basis, they take account of television tex...

This ethnographic research examines how female Javanese descendants in the small village of Sabak Bernam, Malaysia negotiate their identity through television consumption. Living in Malaysia for many years, their presence and cultural identity are elaborately questioned in the debate of cultural products ownership between Malaysia and Indonesia. It...

This ethnographic research examines how female Javanese descendants in the small village of Sabak Bernam, Malaysia negotiate their identity through television consumption. Living in Malaysia for many years, their presence and cultural identity are elaborately questioned in the debate of cultural products ownership between Malaysia and Indonesia. It...

Artikel ini ditulis berdasarkan pengalaman peribadi pengkaji ketika melakukan kajian etnografi khalayak sebagai kaedah kualitatif yang penting untuk kajian penggunaan budaya popular di Malaysia dalam konteks seharian khususnya wanita Melayu di dua lokasi yang berbeza—Lembah Kelang, Kuala Lumpur dan Kota Tinggi, Johor. Wanita Melayu telah dikenal pa...