L'Geneus : The Journal Language Generations of Intellectual Society

Structural Changes in Indonesian Language Use Under the Influence of Internet-Mediated Communication

Ephram Harvey — 2026-08-30

The rapid expansion of internet-mediated communication has transformed the way Indonesian is used in everyday interaction. Social media and other digital platforms have encouraged the widespread use of informal Indonesian, including abbreviations, slang, code-mixing, shortened expressions, and unconventional grammatical and orthographic forms. This study aims to identify the major forms of internet language, analyze changes in Indonesian language structure, and examine the linguistic factors contributing to these changes. The data were analyzed through morphological, syntactic, and orthographic perspectives by comparing internet-language forms with standard Indonesian. The data also demonstrate the emergence and circulation of new digital expressions influenced by communication efficiency, linguistic creativity, globalization, social identity, and online trends. The study concludes that internet-mediated communication contributes to the dynamic development of contemporary Indonesian, particularly in informal digital contexts. Rather than being viewed simply as language degradation, these phenomena should be understood as forms of linguistic variation, adaptation, and potential language change. The study highlights the importance of digital literacy and continued linguistic research to understand the relationship between technological development and Indonesian language evolution.

The Representation of Digital Transformation in Indonesian Online News Discourse

Adelard Sakha — 2026-08-30

Digital transformation has become increasingly important in Indonesia, influencing government services, business, education, finance, and other areas of social life. As one of the major sources of public information, online news media play an important role in constructing public understanding of technological change. However, how digital transformation is discursively represented, framed, and given meaning in Indonesian online news remains insufficiently examined. This study aims to analyze the representation of digital transformation, identify dominant narratives and linguistic strategies, and examine the ideological meanings embedded in Indonesian online news discourse. The study employs a qualitative approach using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), particularly Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework of text, discursive practice, and social practice. The findings indicate that digital transformation is predominantly represented as modernization, technological innovation, economic opportunity, and national development. Government institutions and corporations are frequently positioned as dominant actors and drivers, while citizens are mainly represented as beneficiaries, users, and consumers. Nevertheless, counter-discourses concerning digital inequality, limited access, privacy, cybersecurity, employment disruption, and digital exclusion are also identified.

Feminist Analysis of Women’s Representation, Patriarchal Oppression, and Female Agency in Contemporary Literary Works

Yoga Wardhana — 2025-08-30

Contemporary literature provides an important space for representing women's experiences, gender inequality, patriarchal power, and changing concepts of female identity. Feminist literary criticism enables researchers to examine how literary narratives reproduce, question, or challenge gender ideology and how women negotiate power within social structures. This study aims to analyze the representation of women in selected contemporary literary works, focusing on patriarchal oppression, gender stereotypes, women's resistance and agency, female identity, empowerment, and feminist ideological meanings. This study employs a qualitative descriptive design using feminist literary criticism. Data consist of selected textual passages, including dialogue, narration, characterization, character actions, and representations of gender relations. Data are collected through repeated reading, identification, coding, categorization, and interpretation using feminist analytical categories. An intersectional perspective is applied where relevant to examine the interaction between gender and other social identities. The analysis indicates that contemporary literary works represent women through tensions between patriarchal expectations and personal autonomy. Women experience oppression through family, marriage, cultural norms, economic dependence, and institutional structures, while also demonstrating resistance through independent decision-making, education, careers, rejection of restrictive roles, and identity construction. Contemporary literature can challenge patriarchal ideology while simultaneously reproducing certain gender stereotypes, creating complex representations of women's agency and empowerment.

Digital Alienation and Identity Crisis in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

Rajesh Rajesh — 2026-08-30

Digital technology has become an integral part of young people's lives, transforming communication, social relationships, self-presentation, and identity formation. However, increased digital connectivity does not necessarily guarantee meaningful social connection and may instead generate loneliness, emotional isolation, and digital alienation. These tensions are particularly significant during adolescence, a developmental period characterized by identity exploration and the negotiation of social belonging. This study aims to analyze the representation of digital alienation, manifestations of identity crisis, the relationship between digital alienation and identity formation, literary strategies used to represent these phenomena, and their broader social and ideological meanings. The study employs a qualitative literary research design using close reading, thematic analysis, and textual interpretation of selected contemporary YA novels. The findings indicate recurring patterns of emotional isolation despite digital connectivity, fragmentation between online and offline identities, dependence on social validation, identity uncertainty, and tension between performed and authentic selves. The study concludes that contemporary YA fiction critically represents the psychological and social consequences of digital culture while providing a literary space for examining identity, belonging, authenticity, and alienation among digitally mediated youth.

Narrative Analysis of AI-Generated Storytelling: Exploring Narrative Structure, Characterization, Themes, and Storytelling Strategies

Liana Zaina Zuhriah — 2026-08-30

The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed creative content production, including the generation of stories and fictional narratives. As AI increasingly participates in storytelling, examining the narrative structures and thematic patterns of AI-generated content becomes important for understanding machine-generated creativity. However, the narrative characteristics of AI storytelling remain insufficiently explored from a qualitative literary perspective. This study aims to analyze the narrative structure, characterization, themes, narrative voice, and storytelling strategies found in AI-generated storytelling content. A qualitative narrative analysis was conducted on 30 short stories generated using ChatGPT through standardized prompts. The data were analyzed using a structural narrative framework focusing on plot, characterization, setting, conflict, point of view, theme, and resolution, combined with thematic analysis. The findings indicate that AI-generated stories predominantly employ linear and conventional plot structures, recognizable character archetypes, explicit emotional descriptions, and recurring themes such as love, friendship, family, morality, resilience, loneliness, and hope. Third-person and first-person perspectives are commonly used, while descriptive language, conventional metaphors, dialogue, repetition, and formulaic transitions contribute to narrative coherence. Overall, the stories demonstrate strong structural coherence and emotional accessibility but tend to favor predictable patterns, moral resolutions, and conventional endings over narrative ambiguity and experimentation. The study concludes that AI-generated storytelling effectively reproduces established narrative conventions while revealing distinctive characteristics of machine-generated creative production.