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CULTURAL IMPERIALISM AND CAPITALISM MEDIA IN ISLAMIC VALUES DECONSTRUCTION ON RAMADAN SHOW IN TELEVISIONS
Get PDFIndonesia is the country with the largest number of Muslim occupation in the world today. The largest number of Muslims require various forms of religious education as an attempt to provide insight to the community about the concept and values of Islam. In the process, mass media, which has grown rapidly in Indonesia, especially television come to take a role by providing a variety of spectacle that contains values of Islam. Islamic nuances such as soap operas and television speeches adorn the face of Indonesia. The phenomenon was initially only during the Ramadhan 2010-2012. The focus of this paper is about the deconstruction of Islamic values in TV’s programs, cultural imperialism and mass media capitalism which implies the reconstruction of religious understanding of the ummah. The emergence of commodification and religious shows on television structuration as a form of capitalism media. This means that the value of profit is the primary consideration nuanced spectacle of Islam on television. That led to a new cultural imperialism in the community because dekonstrusi Islamic values by the mass media in beragamma tv program in the month of Ramadan. Comodification and structuration in the mass media thus changing the value of media is becomes a commodity that has economic value All that become on understanding community that increasingly loose with values of Islam. community more enjoy to understanding the religious impressions are nothing more than a mere entertainment. Reality is changing the way of thinking, attitudes and behavior which was originally more confidence to the understanding that comes from the explanation of \u27real\u27 in society, switch to the understanding of religion believe that they watch on television
COMMUNICATION DIMENSIONS WITHIN SPIRITUALITY COMMUNICATION: THE QU’RAN PERSPECTIVES
Get PDFThe study aims to investigate the communication concepts introduced by the Qur’an. As the holy book of Moslem, the Qur’an explain many concepts of human daily life, including communication. Communication as sending and communication as reading in the modern communication theory can be elaborated in Qur’an perspective. This study identifies communication-related verses and analyzes the models of communication. The models are elaborated by examples from the Qur’an and the Hadith. Using interpretive paradigm, this research uses the Qur’an as the analysis unit to explore the patterns, models, and issues of communication. The result of this research contribute to develop eastern perspective theory of communication.
QUO VADIS ONLINE JOURNALISM: PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF PRINT MEDIA AND ONLINE MEDIA
Get PDFNow online journalism into a new chapter in the world of journalism. Paper technology increasingly frozen out by the internet technology. Various press company went bankrupt, whether at home or abroad. So they divert business to the online media. Because it is considered faster, environmentally friendly and efficient. The implication, glory newspaper and other paper-based media increasingly replaced by internet-based online media presence.And proven, now the internet had transformed the conventional industry, a digital-based industry. One was the mass media industry. Until now the mass media still believed to be the most powerful tool in influencing public opinion. Industry print media, electronic media and online media growing rapidly today, confirms the mass media business is a much-loved business entrepreneurs. The trend now, the expansion of the conventional mass media towards online internet-based media more lively. Advantages of online media is far superior in speed display, the content more varied and wide range power, the whole audience can be accessed all over the world, and are economically very cheap, makes a lot of print media company\u27s management to change its format to online media. As it is, online journalist to be very prospective, economic calculation and idealism. Especially now everyone can be a journalist online. The term popular, everyone can be a journalist resident (citizen journalism). By being an online journalist, everyone is more extensive and flexible reporting in a variety of activities. Finally, the competition between online media becomes a necessity that cannot be avoided anymore. Only online media, supported by editorial management and professional management of corporations, eventually became the winner in the heat of the media industry (print, electronic and online media).Unfortunately, public preparedness in the country in the use of online media as a medium of information, entertainment, education and supervision, is still questionable. The majority of Indonesia\u27s population are still not aware of the media, strengthen public awareness of how the use of print media, especially online media is still quite low. That is the challenge that must be answered by all elements of the nation. By optimizing the use of online media and make everyone become a journalist or citizen journalism online and will accelerate national development
COMMUNICATION BASED ON LOCAL WISDOMS TO CREATE TWO–WAY SYMMETRICAL PUBLIC RELATIONS
Get PDFMost of Public Relations research adopt Grunig’s model which divided Public Relations practices into four types; press agentry, public information, two-way asymmetrical, and two-way symmetrical model. The history shown the practices has been stressed on the types of press agentry and public information at the beginning until it emerged the two-way communication which is considered to be more effective. Cultural approach on Public Relations has been deliberated since 1992 through Hofstede’s values and Excellence Theory of communication. Culture as an environment for Public Relations affects and is affected by Public Relations practices. Some studies on the effect of culture on Public Relations practices are found in specific countries. This paper convinces the chances of local wisdoms as a part of culture to create symmetrical Public Relations. Local wisdoms acquiredand passed downfrom generation to generationcan be observedthrough cultural approach which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits of human as a member of society. The methodology used is literature reviews and exposure to the practices in some cases in Indonesia. It is expected that this study can motivate scholar to do empirical evidence and build a database of more types of local wisdoms in order to help practitioners (in corporations, governments and non-profits) reach out to their relevant publics
The Failure of Indonesia’s Public Diplomacy in Managing Malaysian Cultural Claim Issue
No full textAccording to traditional conception of public diplomacy, the positive building of country’s image is the main aim of public diplomacy by sharing clear and credible information and persuading other foreign government and public abroad. In the era of rapid development of information and communication technology, the good image of one country cannot be build by focusing on the parties abroad. The image should be built by focusing on domestic public. By sharing clear and credible information government can persuade public in shaping supportive attitudes. Unfortunately, Indonesia government failed in managing public diplomacy. The anarchic actions and narrative coercion were frequently happened during Malaysian cultural claims. These were unsupportive situation for Indonesian image itself. Lack of mechanism in public access to obtain trusted information and also lack of guidance to respond sensitive issues determine those attitude and lessen the level of relation between countries
AN EFFECTIVE PROCESS OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION: AN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION APPROACH
Get PDFIn general, an effective communication is something so difficult to do. The communication process always involves cross cultural factors which would form a potential communication problems. These factors are, such as semantic problems, is that the same of words but having different meaning by the communicators that come from different cultures. Also, the problems are related with tone and intonation voices, perception, etc that come from different clusters of social and cultures.In the organization, the differences that come from different clusters of cultural society are also potential to become barriers of the effective communication which results in incorrect interpretation, evaluation and perception. More over if the boss suffered by “a hard to hearing disease”, as results of differences of position and class that owned by the boss, the barriers would be grow bigger and bigger. The other problems could be come from the Indonesian ethnic groups who embrace “high-context culture”, so that the information such as advice, complain, critic, etc., do not need to be submitted in words, verbal forms. In the high-context culture’s groups, information obtained by conclusion, behavior, and even in silences. More over if the process is related to the superior-subordinate position, so that the process of communication becomes an ineffective one. The boss is often seeing that the messages come from the subordinates is negative, not qualified, so it does not to be heard. If it happens it could cause anxiety and reluctance of subordinates to deliver the right information. Adverse impact of the organization is the existence of subordinate’s dissatisfaction and distrust of the superiors, and therefore contributes the overall organizational performance.This description reveals the barriers that exist in a cross cultural communication in order to achieve an effective organizational communication. The approach used is descriptive qualitative, which produces description of the behavior of certain individuals in an organization and analyzed from the point of view of a thorough and complete. The data obtained from several sources who have worked in an organization for a long time. The author uses the theory of triangulation of sources, methodological, and theories to obtain reliable data. The description of the findings in this paper is the need for cross-cultural approach to organizational communication to achieve an effective communication
INITIATING MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN INDONESIAN COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Get PDFThe issue of multiculturalism into a time bomb that exploded after the 1998 reform. The various conflicts that contains multicultural sentiment as happened in Ambon, Poso and Sambas proof multicultural issues in Indonesia. In relation to communication, multicultural conflict is inseparable from the role of opinion leaders who communicate ideas and ideas on the audience and also how the mass media do multicultural framing the conflict that occurred. An important role of communication in the realm of multicultural issues is the position of higher education is becoming increasingly significant communication sciences. Communication studies in Indonesia is in the face of communication seen stuttering multicultural issues that occur. This bias was also not released from the state of higher education before the reform of science communication is dominated by a paradigm that was developed to emphasize the New Order developmental models. In the New Order era, multicultural issues covered by the government and if the emerging multicultural issues through the repressive military government officials and leading into the solution. This condition is different from the post-reform era, when transparency of information and communication occurs. Multicultural issues can no longer be solved by the approach of state power but should involve civil society. Involving civil society is an open communication opportunities for higher education to contribute in the insertion of multiculturalism in education. This paper attempts to examine how multiculturalism should insertion of communication in higher education in Indonesia, so the higher education of communication is able to produce graduates who are competent communication with multicultural perspective
The Implication of Communication Axioms within Various Perspectives of Methodology and Research
No full textIt is very clear that communication axioms implied to theories of communication. A good theory usually gives the implication to the research methodology directly or indirectly. Through communication axioms, we understand that these formulations are generated from the discursive practices of community within the communication field conducted by the scholars. Here it is to say that each theory that was generated can not be separated from the historical perspectives. By giving the key foundation of communication axioms, this paper was meant to trigger many attempts in exploring communication in detail and more comprehensively.
DISCOURSE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THAI MASS MEDIA: A TRANSMISSION OF PATRIARCHY THROUGH THE LANGUAGE
Get PDFSince its beginnings, feminism has studied the relationship between men and women which is based on sexual inequality. It indicated that the needs of men to dominate women has lead to sexual violence at present. This concept, sometimes called ‘Patriarchy’, was implemented almost at the same time as the beginning of urbanization. Patriarchism is the concept that men have the power to oppress women. It is the power in society, ideology, family, and the political system which men use to oppress directly or through worship, law, language, custom, idioms, education as well as the division of labour in which women are always less powerful. Patriarchism is the system by which men use the law, culture and religion to give them the confidence that they have more power than women. Therefore, they use violence because women are lower in status and they need women to be lower in status. This also affects men’s need to overcome their sense of alienation caused by women’s fertility whereby women give birth and raise children. This article focuses on the discourse about violence against women through the language of various Thai media, which reflects the transformation of the patriarchy mechanism to the social truth establishment by the media
Intercultural Communication Accommodation in Interethnic Family
No full textInterethnic family is a family consisting of two different ethnics due to the legal unity of couple from different ethnic groups (Sundanese and non-Sundanese). Ethnic differences substitute different cultural background. The focus of this research is the condition in which culture can be accommodated by interethnic family. The aim of this research is to gain the picture of the attitudes of interethnic family in facing their different cultures. Symbolic Interaction Theory and Accommodation Theory are utilized to analyze the accomodated condition of intercultural family. Qualitative method is used in this research; data collecting is conducted through depth interview, involving 13 interethnic families. The families chosen are those which have child and reached 10 years of marriage. The result of the research shows that accommodated condition in interethnic family is the attitude of educating children and of getting aquainted with extended family. Open-mindednes in interethnic family includes the matters of children education, language used, children’s name, activities outside of school, school selection. Yet, for the children’s mate, interethnic families want their children to marry spouse from the same religion, no matter what their ethnics are. Social intercourse, especially with extended family, is considered as family recreation, studying cuisine, and introducing cultural elements to children. The involvement of wife in customary events is to support the husband’s position and to keep the relation to the husband’s extended family