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menggunakan ruang perpustakaan untuk lifestyle dan membangun distingsi.
Dalam praktik sosial ruang perpustakaan merupakan ruang community hub.
Kata Kunci: representasi ruang, praktik sosial, ruang perpustakaan,
pemustaka digital natives

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The purpose of this study is to get a comprehensive picture while conducting a
critical analysis of the representation of library space and consumption practices
by digital native users of the library space. The research method uses ethnography,
with data collection techniques using participant observation, interviews, and
documentation. The results showed that space representation became dominant
because the reformulation of the construction of the library space initially was
to direct digital native users. The library space is also a paradox space. There
are regulations that are majority deviation and efficient that are inefficient. The
library space becomes a production space but the meaning is different. Library
capitalization becomes dominant. Logic industrial is used by libraries. Mediation
also occurs in the context of the library. Technologization in libraries raises
irrationality and dehumanization so as to reduce social relations. In its social
practice, digital native users have their own agency in consuming library space.
The library space has now become an impenetrable space, meaning that it is a
space that eliminates bulkhead between work and non-work. There are several
activities when digital native users make library space a leisure space, such as:
to get freedom from social, environmental and domestic pressures; looking for
entertainment because it uses space not to produce ideas but for other pleasures; as
a cathartic space, as a form of escape from uncomfortable space and from various
formal structures. The library space is no longer a frightening space with difficult
bureaucratic label, but has shifted into a dynamic and fluid public space. The
library space is also an alternative space to find freedom for digital native users
in carrying out activities. Digital native users using library space for lifestyle as a
space and built distinction. In social practices the library space is also a community
hub.
Keywords: representation of space, social practices, library space, digital
native users

I. PENDAHULUAN
Penelitian ini mengkaji perubahan dalam praktik pemaknaan pemustaka
digital natives atas ruang perpustakaan. Ruang perpustakaan sebagai objek
penelitian akan didekati dalam perspektif keruangan model Lefebvrean,
yaitu teori produksi ruang yang digagas oleh Henri Lefebvre. Istilah digital
natives pertama kali diperkenalkan oleh Marc Prensky pada tahun 2001.

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