Internet dan teknologi digital memberikan kemudahan bagi manusia untuk melakukan berbagai macam aktivitas yang semula dilakukan secara manual, bertatap muka, dan dengan keterbatasan jarak dan waktu. Dengan adanya teknologi-teknologi baru pada era digital yang terkoneksi dengan jaringan internet, manusia dapat terhubung dengan mudah meskipun terpisah oleh jarak. Akan tetapi, semua teknologi tersebut tidak memiliki arti tanpa ada manusia sebagai pengguna. Keberadaan dan kegunaan teknologi tergantung pada institusi dan budaya yang memungkinkan teknologi tersebut bertahan sehingga penting untuk mengkaji budaya partisipatif yang melingkupi teknologi itu. Ada empat bentuk budaya partisipatif yang dapat dikaji, yaitu afiliasi, ekspresi, pemecahan masalah secara kolaboratif, dan sirkulasi. Salah satu masalah yang dihadapi oleh bangsa Indonesia pada 2020 adalah masalah pandemi Covid-19. Meningkatnya jumlah orang yang terdiagnosis positif Covid-19 dan korban meninggal menimbulkan kepanikan di kalangan masyarakat sehingga banyak orang yang membeli alat-alat kesehatan, seperti masker dan hand sanitizer, untuk melakukan pencegahan. Hal itu menyebabkan kelangkaan stok dan peningkatan tajam harga alat-alat kesehatan, padahal tenaga medis yang secara langsung menangani para pasien sangat membutuhkannya. Di tengah kesulitan dana untuk mencegah dan mengatasi penyebaran Covid-19, muncul kampanye penggalangan dana #BersamaLawanCorona yang dilaksanakan oleh platform crowdfunding Kitabisa.com yang bekerja sama dengan beberapa partners. Tulisan ini merupakan sebuah conceptual paper dengan metode kualitatif literature review yang berusaha membangun argumen hubungan logis antara konsep crowdfunding, budaya partisipatif, dan konvergensi media yang dikaitkan dengan kampanye penggalangan dana #BersamaLawanCorona yang diselenggarakan oleh Kitabisa (kitabisa.com) untuk membantu mengatasi masalah pandemi Covid-19 di Indonesia.

Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communication from tourists that have visited a destination can be used as promotional media for that destination, including in the halal tourism context. Understanding the drivers of Muslim tourist's eWOM is necessary to be able to use eWOM as a means of promoting halal tourism in Indonesia. This research aims to analyze the direct effects of Islamic religiosity, perceived values, and destination satisfaction on eWOM; the mediating effects of destination satisfaction on the link between Islamic religiosity, perceived value, and eWOM; the serial mediating effect of perceived Islamic values and destination satisfaction on the link between Islamic religiosity and eWOM; and comparing the effects of perceived value dimensions, i.e., quality, price, emotional, social, different experience, novelty, safety, location, physical attributes, and nonphysical attributes, on eWOM. This research used the positivism paradigm and quantitative method. The population was Indonesian Muslim tourists who have visited halal tourism destination in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. Purposive and snowball sampling methods were used to select samples. The data were collected from 332 respondents via an online survey and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) method. This research found that only perceived social value that has a significant effect on eWOM, while Islamic religiosity, the other dimensions of perceived value, and destination satisfaction are not the direct and indirect drivers of eWOM. The difference in the significance of the effects of those factors can be associated with the origin and age of the respondents, as well as the location of the destination.

Sport and media have a long history of mutually beneficial relationship. Sport has become a commodity. Private televisions use sport programs to gain more profits through various methods, such as advertising and paid subscription. The potential benefits that media can gain from sport have driven the competition between broadcasters to get the broadcasting rights and thus drive the broadcasting rights fees higher every season. In 2019, TVRI with limited annual budget can acquire English Premier League broadcasting rights through partnership with Mola TV. TVRI as a public service broadcaster is not allowed to be profit-oriented like private televisions. This article investigates commodification of sport in Indonesian public television, TVRI, with study case of English Premier League. Data are collected from literature study and observation, then it is analyzed from a political economy perspective. It is found that TVRI use English Premier League to gain more audiences and profits through various sport programs - similar to private televisions, but with some limitations that public television has.