[ABSTRAK Pesatnya pertumbuhan media sosial membawa banyak perubahan. Dengankarakternya yang berbeda dengan media lama, media sosial membuka banyakkemungkinan, termasuk bagi representasi identitas lokal. Seperti komunitasBanyumas, mereka menjadikan media sosial sebagai ruang baru untukmenunjukkan identitasnya. Sebuah pertanyaan mengemuka, apakah kehadiranmedia sosial yang berkarakter global akan melemahkan identitas lokal, atausebaliknya justru memperkuatnya.Penelitian ini mencoba melihat transformasiidentitas komunitas Banyumas dari ranah offline ke online, dengan melihatbagaimana realitas kontemporer praktik kebahasaan orang Banyumas dalamkehidupan sehari-hari dan di media sosial. Pengamatan praktik kebahasaan dimedia sosial dikhususkan pada pesan-pesan terpilih di blog, Twitter, danFacebook. Analisis dilakukan dengan menggunakan teori Pierre Bourdieu yangmelihat identitas sebagai sebuah kontestasi dalam sebuah ranah dinamis. Hasilpenelitian menunjukkan bahwa karakter dasar orang Banyumas seperti cablaka,penjorangan, dan dopokan, tergambar kuat dalam berbagai pesan di media sosial.Uniknya, pesan-pesan ini banyak yang ditampilkan secara kreatif, sebagai bentukadaptasi karakter media sosial. Sebagai sebuah kontestasi, representasi identitaslokal dipengaruhi oleh relasi antara ranah, habitus, dan modal. Ranahmenunjukkan setting media sosial itu sendiri. Sedangkan habitus ditunjukkan olehkecenderungan yang berbeda di antara para pengguna Banyumas dengan latarbelakang yang beragam. Sementara modal, ditandai kepemilikan modal yangberbeda, baik yang berupa modal sosial, budaya, simbolik, maupun modalekonomi. Secara teoritis, hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan perbedaan nilai dankekuatan modal, antara realitas offline dan online. Jika di ranah online, modalekonomi menjadi dominan perannya, maka di ranah online, modal simbolik lebihberperan. Secara praktis, hasil penelitan ini menumbuhkan optimisme bahwaidentitas lokal akan terus bertahan, bahkan menguat, di era media sosial.; ABSTRACT The rapid growth of social media brings many changes. Distinguishing characterswith the old one, social media opens many possibilities, including therepresentation of local identity. For instance, Banyumas community uses socialmedia as a new space to show their identity. A question arose whether thepresence of social media which has global character may weaken or strengthentheir local identities instead. This study tries to figure out the transformation ofidentity of Banyumas community from offline to online field, by paying moreattention on how the contemporary reality of Banyumas people‟s linguisticpractices in their daily life and in social media is. The Observation on linguisticpractices in social media particularly focuses on the selected messages available inblogs, Twitter, and Facebook. The analyses were conducted using Pierre Bourdieutheories that viewed identity as a contestation within a dynamic field. The resultsshowed that the basic characters of the Banyumas people, such as cablaka,penjorangan, and dopokan, were strongly reflected in various messages availablein social media. These messages were uniquely displayed in creative ways, asforms of character adaptation in social media. As contestation, the representationof local identity was influenced by the relationship between field, habitus, andcapitals. Field showed the setting of social media itself. Habitus were shown bythe different tendencies among users of Banyumas with different backgrounds.Capitals were marked by the possession of different capitals, either in the form ofsocial, cultural, symbolic, or economic capital. Theoretically, the results of thisstudy showed differences in values and capital powers, between offline and onlinereality. If in online field, the economic capital had the dominant roles, thesymbolic capital had more roles. Practically, the results of this study growoptimism that local identity will surely survive and even be stronger in the era ofsocial media.;The rapid growth of social media brings many changes. Distinguishing characterswith the old one, social media opens many possibilities, including therepresentation of local identity. For instance, Banyumas community uses socialmedia as a new space to show their identity. A question arose whether thepresence of social media which has global character may weaken or strengthentheir local identities instead. This study tries to figure out the transformation ofidentity of Banyumas community from offline to online field, by paying moreattention on how the contemporary reality of Banyumas people‟s linguisticpractices in their daily life and in social media is. The Observation on linguisticpractices in social media particularly focuses on the selected messages available inblogs, Twitter, and Facebook. The analyses were conducted using Pierre Bourdieutheories that viewed identity as a contestation within a dynamic field. The resultsshowed that the basic characters of the Banyumas people, such as cablaka,penjorangan, and dopokan, were strongly reflected in various messages availablein social media. These messages were uniquely displayed in creative ways, asforms of character adaptation in social media. As contestation, the representationof local identity was influenced by the relationship between field, habitus, andcapitals. Field showed the setting of social media itself. Habitus were shown bythe different tendencies among users of Banyumas with different backgrounds.Capitals were marked by the possession of different capitals, either in the form ofsocial, cultural, symbolic, or economic capital. Theoretically, the results of thisstudy showed differences in values and capital powers, between offline and onlinereality. If in online field, the economic capital had the dominant roles, thesymbolic capital had more roles. Practically, the results of this study growoptimism that local identity will surely survive and even be stronger in the era ofsocial media., The rapid growth of social media brings many changes. Distinguishing characterswith the old one, social media opens many possibilities, including therepresentation of local identity. For instance, Banyumas community uses socialmedia as a new space to show their identity. A question arose whether thepresence of social media which has global character may weaken or strengthentheir local identities instead. This study tries to figure out the transformation ofidentity of Banyumas community from offline to online field, by paying moreattention on how the contemporary reality of Banyumas people‟s linguisticpractices in their daily life and in social media is. The Observation on linguisticpractices in social media particularly focuses on the selected messages available inblogs, Twitter, and Facebook. The analyses were conducted using Pierre Bourdieutheories that viewed identity as a contestation within a dynamic field. The resultsshowed that the basic characters of the Banyumas people, such as cablaka,penjorangan, and dopokan, were strongly reflected in various messages availablein social media. These messages were uniquely displayed in creative ways, asforms of character adaptation in social media. As contestation, the representationof local identity was influenced by the relationship between field, habitus, andcapitals. Field showed the setting of social media itself. Habitus were shown bythe different tendencies among users of Banyumas with different backgrounds.Capitals were marked by the possession of different capitals, either in the form ofsocial, cultural, symbolic, or economic capital. Theoretically, the results of thisstudy showed differences in values and capital powers, between offline and onlinereality. If in online field, the economic capital had the dominant roles, thesymbolic capital had more roles. Practically, the results of this study growoptimism that local identity will surely survive and even be stronger in the era ofsocial media.] |