Fotografi Ruang Siber dan Layar Panoptik Analisis Foto dalam Media Sosial Instagram

This paper discusses a photography phenomenon materialized in a social media, the Instagram. Within a social media, like Instagram, photography is used to establish a power relation and is the representation of the user. Photography is no longer a media for documentation; recently it is a display of a symbol of modern life style. Media social users set up their identity as they wish. In this political space (a space full of interests), each user seeks to strategize power, to oversee and discipline one another. To scrutinize this matter Michel Foucault’s panopticon concept is employed. This study aims at explaining the phenomenon of the Amaryllis garden destruction happened in Patuk District, Gunungkidul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region Province. The features provided by Instagram to respond the posted photograph such as “like”, “comment”, “share”, and hashtag (#) are unconsciously used by the users to play the overseer role. The panoptic tower functions and is strategized to keep watch and discipline other users