stage”. This transformation also has global impacts
for marginal identity to voice their own narratives.
This virtual political space is a milestone in the
youth movement in today's postmodern era. There are
two main forms of the youth movement in their
agenda to spread their agenda, namely through
activism and art performance. Activism is a form of
political participation in response to the existing
problems. In social theory, the youth movement has
its own place. Youth political perspectives who often
perceived as emotional and irrational, become
distinctive characters that distinguish them from
another socio-political identity in the other age
groups. In history, some of the robust movement is
driven by young people, including anti-war pacifism
to social transformation. At first, the youth movement
took the form of protest or disobedience to build
awareness and shaping the public opinion. The
presence of world wide web enables the youth to
spread their ideas by sharing, posting, or voice a
petition. This is how the social media changed global
activism operates, by gives way to the alternative
narratives driven by youth movements – ranging from
truthout.com that voiced the liberal social narrative,
rainforest.arkivert.no who speak out and concern
toward the burden of environmental protection,
fear.ink that discusses various issues of
Islamophobia, to mipex.eu who pay attention to the
process of integration of refugees with the
community.
In addition to the website, networking between the
youth movement also play a significant role in the
form of civic organization. Within a virtual basis,
youth organizations are able to have members from
various countries (de Jong, et al, 2005). This new
political platform brings specific character to the
youth movement today, that is a new form of non-
hostile civil disobedience in shaping public opinion
and convoy policy change. A civil disobedience can
be performed by cyber-based organizations known as
“electronic civil disobedience”. These tactics conduct
by hacking certain websites, or by flooding a certain
company with millions of emails (Pickerill 2001).
This new pattern of civil disobedience is very
effective in spreading ideas and building awareness
among the wider community. Such tactics transform
the internet infrastructure from a means of
communication into an instrument of action (Wray,
1998).
Another form of youth political movement comes
in the form of art, especially street art. Gravities
inscribed by Banksy, for example, are able to raise
social awareness of crucial matters such as child labor
to war criticism. The streets are chosen to be a
battleground to challenge government policy as well
as the hegemony of multinational companies. After
Trump won the presidential election, the streets in the
United States are filled with gravity protesting
Trump's anti-immigration policy. Or the gravity that
scattered in Berlin during the WTO meeting in mid-
2017. The spirit of street art captured the essence of
force within post-modernism politics. They are the
cutting edge in methods, attacking corporate
hegemony and their ideology (Suzuki, 2013). Street
art, by definition, is grassroots movement who trying
to expose various forms of abuse of power that
occurred. It seeks to expand the consciousness of the
average citizen to the harsh realities of our time. By
doing their “city guerillas” they mean to break
barriers between high and low culture, in order to
show our common humanity (Suzuki, 2013).
Street art showed a new process of political
articulation, transmission and dissemination of the
youth experience in the of these new spaces to various
audiences bring new sensibilities into everyday
practices (Featherstone, 2007). It is becoming what
Aronson called postmodern design, a juxtaposition of
elements within the unifying structure of the stage
frame, creating a referential network within the mind
of the viewer that extends beyond the immediately
apparent world (Aronson, 1991). These two forms of
youth movement speak the same language – the
language of moral consciousness. The Youth
movement has evolved into a global movement
capable of shaking the hegemonic order.
4 CANDY LEFT: A PERCEPTION
OF PROFANITY
Studying political identities can be very amusing, but
in the age of postmodern politics, political identity
shifts into a mere scene of profanity. Imagery is an
important point in postmodern which refers to
entirely cut off of any original meaning, from any
supporting base (Brann, 1992). Since it is only half
measured on thought or meaning, the image of
identity has never intact. This condition of profanity
in the postmodern movement has become two sides
of the same coin: on one side, it can become a very
resourceful social power, but on the other side, it
becomes the very base of the recent social problem.
Arab Spring, Occupy Movement, and the youth left
movement in Indonesia face similar dilemmas.
Arab Spring and Occupy Movement are bringing
the awareness of how profanity gives a thick color to
postmodern politics. Both of these movements
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