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Reflexively negotiating individuality-collectivity: Malaysian teenagers’ self identity and their consumption of the global television

Like any country, Malaysia experienced the effects of globalization on its cultural identity. Satellite television became one of the conduits for the inflow of transnational culture through the various channels in Malaysia. A study had been conducted to examine how the meeting of the global cultures...

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Main Author:	Haryati Abdul Karim
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	Penerbit UMS 2016
Subjects:	HQ793-799.2 Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers PN1992-1992.92 Television broadcasts
Online Access:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33867/1/Reflexively%20negotiating%20individuality-collectivity%2C%20Malaysian%20teenagers%E2%80%99%20self%20identity%20and%20their%20consumption%20of%20the%20global%20television.ABSTRACT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33867/2/Reflexively%20negotiating%20individuality-collectivity%2C%20malaysian%20teenagers%E2%80%99%20self%20identity%20and%20their%20consumption%20of%20the%20global%20television.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33867/ https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/ejk/article/view/497 https://doi.org/10.51200/ejk.v18i0.497
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spelling	my.ums.eprints.338672022-08-19T01:22:09Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33867/ Reflexively negotiating individuality-collectivity: Malaysian teenagers’ self identity and their consumption of the global television Haryati Abdul Karim HQ793-799.2 Youth. Adolescents. Teenagers PN1992-1992.92 Television broadcasts Like any country, Malaysia experienced the effects of globalization on its cultural identity. Satellite television became one of the conduits for the inflow of transnational culture through the various channels in Malaysia. A study had been conducted to examine how the meeting of the global cultures through the media are shaping young Malaysians’ self-identity, by looking at what forms of global identities that are being reproduced. Secondly, if local collective identities and culture are being disembedded out of its locality due to their consumption of the global television programmes. By capturing the narratives of young Malay, Chinese, Indian and Kadazandusuns from their media diaries and focus group interviews, it is found that media globalization have led to the emergence of a fluid and hybrid identities among young Malaysians. Individualised identities based on Western fashion pleasure and music are forms of individualized identity that draws young Malaysians. However, local cultural identity - religion and ethnicity are not being disembedded rather it is negotiated along with global identities and re-embedded in new contexts. Using Giddens’ notion of ‘self-reflexivity’, it is found that young Malaysians reorganized their sense of self not because of the collapsing of the local culture but because of the prevalent forces of local culture in their daily lives that is constraining their position as global-modern subjects. Penerbit UMS 2016-12-27 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33867/1/Reflexively%20negotiating%20individuality-collectivity%2C%20Malaysian%20teenagers%E2%80%99%20self%20identity%20and%20their%20consumption%20of%20the%20global%20television.ABSTRACT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33867/2/Reflexively%20negotiating%20individuality-collectivity%2C%20malaysian%20teenagers%E2%80%99%20self%20identity%20and%20their%20consumption%20of%20the%20global%20television.pdf Haryati Abdul Karim (2016) Reflexively negotiating individuality-collectivity: Malaysian teenagers’ self identity and their consumption of the global television. Jurnal Kinabalu, 18. pp. 81-96. ISSN 2600-867X https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/ejk/article/view/497 https://doi.org/10.51200/ejk.v18i0.497
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description	Like any country, Malaysia experienced the effects of globalization on its cultural identity. Satellite television became one of the conduits for the inflow of transnational culture through the various channels in Malaysia. A study had been conducted to examine how the meeting of the global cultures through the media are shaping young Malaysians’ self-identity, by looking at what forms of global identities that are being reproduced. Secondly, if local collective identities and culture are being disembedded out of its locality due to their consumption of the global television programmes. By capturing the narratives of young Malay, Chinese, Indian and Kadazandusuns from their media diaries and focus group interviews, it is found that media globalization have led to the emergence of a fluid and hybrid identities among young Malaysians. Individualised identities based on Western fashion pleasure and music are forms of individualized identity that draws young Malaysians. However, local cultural identity - religion and ethnicity are not being disembedded rather it is negotiated along with global identities and re-embedded in new contexts. Using Giddens’ notion of ‘self-reflexivity’, it is found that young Malaysians reorganized their sense of self not because of the collapsing of the local culture but because of the prevalent forces of local culture in their daily lives that is constraining their position as global-modern subjects.
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author	Haryati Abdul Karim
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title	Reflexively negotiating individuality-collectivity: Malaysian teenagers’ self identity and their consumption of the global television
title_short	Reflexively negotiating individuality-collectivity: Malaysian teenagers’ self identity and their consumption of the global television
title_full	Reflexively negotiating individuality-collectivity: Malaysian teenagers’ self identity and their consumption of the global television
title_fullStr	Reflexively negotiating individuality-collectivity: Malaysian teenagers’ self identity and their consumption of the global television
title_full_unstemmed	Reflexively negotiating individuality-collectivity: Malaysian teenagers’ self identity and their consumption of the global television
title_sort	reflexively negotiating individuality-collectivity: malaysian teenagers’ self identity and their consumption of the global television
publisher	Penerbit UMS
publishDate	2016
url	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33867/1/Reflexively%20negotiating%20individuality-collectivity%2C%20Malaysian%20teenagers%E2%80%99%20self%20identity%20and%20their%20consumption%20of%20the%20global%20television.ABSTRACT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33867/2/Reflexively%20negotiating%20individuality-collectivity%2C%20malaysian%20teenagers%E2%80%99%20self%20identity%20and%20their%20consumption%20of%20the%20global%20television.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33867/ https://jurcon.ums.edu.my/ojums/index.php/ejk/article/view/497 https://doi.org/10.51200/ejk.v18i0.497
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