https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/jurnal-humaniora HUMANIORA Vol. 32, No. 3 (October 2020) The Dichotomy of Proliferating Information Technology in Globalization of Education: A Case Study Sri Herminingrum Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia Email: hermien_18@ub.ac.id ABSTRACT The Information Technology (IT) proliferation path cannot be separated from the role of American young entrepreneurs who generate revolutionary change in global information system. This modern existence, of course, leads to the socio-cultural phenomena encompassing dichotomous trends in many aspects of Indonesian daily lives, not to mention in education world. Scrutinizing the data obtained from a one-semester direct observation, structured interview, and questionnaire distribution to 586 students of 11 faculties at Universitas Brawijaya is used as the base of a case study. By employing qualitative method, therefore, the study aims to provide insights about the merits and demerits of the use of IT in globalization of education, which is commonly happening in Indonesia within the last decade. The result shows that the dependence of students as Indonesian digital citizen on the internet-based information tends to impact negatively on the basic values of education, such as infuencing the students to be narrow-minded, self-centered, and preferring to gain instant results. Keywords: Information Technology; dichotomous trends; globalization of education INTRODUCTION In the frame of civilization, education represents the core in the process of shaping culture. Since the groundwork of culture by its nature cannot be repudiated from human values, the cultural changes in education world become more complex and less obvious. This unavoidable dynamic change has been predicted by du Guy (in Hall and du Guy, 2013) as the reason why the ongoing cultural changes are always parallel with globalization process, and turn to be a dominating theme of scientifc discussions within social and humanity studies in academic world Globalization, which can be defined as the relationship between some diferent geographical areas, has been detected since the 13 th century when diferent countries from various parts of the world interact massively. However, the intensifying inter-nation relations have created some by-products of other cultural interests. Historically, this century is the beginning of economy-cultural and political-cultural exchanges between the East and the West: the great Imperium of Rome and Greece with China or other Eastern territories (Chaubet, 2015), with trading as the main reason. In the line with its theme, globalization from the late 1980’s became “a topic of a great political and economy policy concern and, … one of the most frequently used terms in political and business discourse. In turn, globalization penetrates the discourse of ideological and everyday life” (Robertson in Ritzer and Smart, 2003). It is not an abrupt cultural issue because life experiences and systematic ideas which are covered as ideology are growing along with the practical activities in life, including in education. Therefore, culture is always positioned in an abstract context and subjective understanding because it is shaped by people to be accepted based on spatial and temporal dimensions. As a building, culture appears https://doi.org/10.22146/jh.41523 page 240—248