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Journal content and manuscripts entering the editorial desk are not only quantitative methods. Many manuscript writers also send their manuscripts to journal editors using qualitative methods. However, it is not uncommon for the technique to be unclear.

Therefore Prof. Irwan Abdullah explained in detail how to research to use the types of qualitative research easily. “Why do I present this? Because in qualitative research manuscripts, it is often unclear. Is this CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis), phenomenology, etc. We often don’t pay attention to this,” said Prof. Irwan Abdullah, Professor of anthropology at UGM, at the Qualitative Research Training on September 13, 2021.

This event was held by the Journal and Publication Management Unit of Scientific Work, Faculty of Psychology and Socio-Cultural Sciences (FPSB), UII. “We hope that journal managers in FPSB UII can get a method refresh and improve the quality of their journals,” said Puji Rianto, Head of Journal Management and Scientific Work Publication of FPSB UII.

Irwan said there are at least six types of qualitative research. By understanding these types, Irwan hopes that it will make it easier for journal managers to recognize and improve the quality of journal manuscripts. Irwan, a reviewer of national and international journals, said that in addition to understanding the six types of qualitative research, journal managers must also understand the four rationales of qualitative methods.

Six Types of Qualitative Research

The six types of research are grounded research, for example. “This grounded research is interesting because it stimulates the emergence of survey ideas and hypotheses,” explained Irwan. Irwan dismissed some people’s assumption that grounded research was wrong. Grounded research, according to him, is not research without theory. “But research that aims to build theory,” said Irwan. In addition to grounded research, we can also understand other qualitative models such as narrative analysis.

Irwan explained that “Narrative analysis is making sense of reality. How he makes, the reality is making sense.” For example, said Irwan, we researched news about the success of a great religious figure. We interview him using narrative analysis.

“How do we see our character narrate success and explain that success,” he explained. “So in this narrative analysis, we are trying to make sense of the realities of language, what expression to use, what language method is used by the character. So he makes senses of reality,” he added later.

If the narrative analysis reveals language narratives, the following type, namely content analysis, tries to find patterns. “Content analysis tries to find the frequency and trend of patterns. Usually, in this communication. It produces tables,” said Irwan, who since 2018 has been writing for Scopus journals.

Meanwhile, Irwan explained that discourse analysis is different from content analysis. The researcher uses discourse analysis to see “how in the history or culture of a person it builds discourse/ discourse. We see how his history, culture, influence him.”

There is also a type of phenomenology. The science of phenomenology records experiences. For example, Irwan gave the experience of recovering from Covid-19. “He will tell his experience until he recovered from Covid and how he gave meaning,” said Irwan. “So every stage of the experience is given meaning.”

Irwan said that the term case study often represents qualitative research towards closing the material. Some researchers also notice this less. There are three types of case studies. First, Intrinsic case studies. This is a micro case study examining one event in depth. “Even a character being researched and made into a biography is intrinsic,” said Irwan.

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Asian Journal of Media and Communication (AJMC) lahir dengan semangat mengisi kekosongan kajian komunikasi di Indonesia yang selama ini masih didominasi paradigma dan bidang kajian tertentu. Dominasi yang dimaksud, misalnya dominasi kajian public relations atau dominasi positivisme. Jika mengacu pada pembidangan dalam International Communication Association (ICA), maka akan langsung terlihat bahwa banyak sekali bidang kajian yang tidak cukup berkembang di Indonesia.

AJMC lahir dengan visi menjadi jurnal rujukan bagi kajian komunikasi dan media di Asia. “Asia” dalam AJMC bisa mengacu pada beberapa hal (terbuka untuk terus dibincangkan): Asia sebagai perspektif atau Asia sebagai wilayah kajian. Sebagai wilayah kajian, Asia bisa diperbincangkan oleh siapa saja, atau oleh orang Asia sendiri, atau akademisi Indonesia berbicara tentang Asia.

Penyegaran Visi dan positioning AJMC ini menjadi salah satu kesimpulan dalam Rapat Redaksi para editor AJMC pada 13 September 2021 via Zoom Meeting Conference Application. Hadir pada kesempatan itu para editor dari beragam kampus dan institusi baik dari Indonesia maupun Luar Indonesia.

Ada editor yang berasal dari Northwestern University (USA), Lund University (Swedia), Tartu University (Estonia), Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, UII, Universitas Diponegoro, Univ Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Univ. Syiah Kuala, dan The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Swiss. dan lembaga studi komunikasi dan media: Remotivi.

Berikut ini adalah sususan redaksi AJMC Periode 2021-2023 berdasarkan Surat Keputusan (SK) Dekan FPSB UII Nomor : 12/SK-DEK/DURT/IV/2021.

  • Alfi Rahman, M.Si., Ph.D., Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Universitas Syiah Kuala and a researcher at the Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC) of Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Indonesia
  • Lintang Ratri Rahmiaji, Dr., M.Si., S.Sos. (Scopus ID: 57205339118) Department of Communication Science, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia
  • Mario Antonius Birowo, Ph.D., Department of Communication, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Indonesia
  • Muhammad Heychael, M.Si., Researcher of Remotivi, Center of Communication and Media Studies, Indonesia
  • Roy Thaniago, M.Sc., The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, Switzerland
  • Zaki Habibi, Dr., Researcher at Lund University | Universitas Islam Indonesia

AJMC lahir dengan orientasi “internasional”, berbahasa Inggris, ditujukan untuk pembaca global. Oleh karena itu, tata kelola dan orientasi jurnal harus konsisten, menuju “international indexing and citation”. Dengan standar minimal tersebut, hal-hal di luarnya bisa ditoleransi (diperbaiki dalam proses editorial di AJMC). Misalnya, artikel dengan jumlah kata yang kurang atau lebih atau artikel dengan Bahasa Inggris yang belum memadai. Dengan memenuhi standar minimal tersebut, diharapkan dalam waktu dekat (beberapa tahun ke depan), AJMC bisa menjadi “benchmark” jurnal kajian komunikasi dan media di Indonesia, atau bahkan Asia Tenggara. Selain memenuhi standar minimal tersebut, untuk menjadi benchmark, AJMC harus terbit secara teratur atau tepat waktu.

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Ditulis oleh Muzayin Nazaruddin, Editor In Chief AJMC UII 2021-2023.

Disunting oleh A. Pambudi W

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Konten dan naskah jurnal yang masuk ke meja redaksi tak hanya bermetode kuantitatif. Banyak pula penulis naskah yang mengirim naskahnya ke redaksi jurnal dengan metode kualitatif. Meski begitu tak jarang pula yang tak jelas metodenya.

Maka dari itu Prof. Irwan Abdullah menjelaskan secara rinci melakukan penelitian agar bisa dengan mudah menggunakan jenis-jenis penelitian kualitatif. “Kenapa ini saya hadirkan? Karena pada naskah penelitian kualitatif, dia seringkali tidak jelas. Ini dia CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis) kah, fenomenologikah, dll. Ini kita seringkali tidak memperhatikannya,” kata Prof. Irwan Abdullah, Profesor antropologi UGM, di Pelatihan Penelitian Kualitatif pada 13 September 2021.

Acara ini diadakan oleh Unit Pengelolaan Jurnal dan Publikasi Karya Ilmiah, Fakultas Psikologi dan Ilmu Sosial Budaya (FPSB), UII. “Kami berharap para pengelola jurnal di lingkungan FPSB UII dapat mendapat penyegaran metode dan meningkatkan kualitas jurnalnya,” kata Puji Rianto, Kepala Pengelolaan Jurnal dan Publikasi Karya Ilmiah FPSB UII.

Irwan mengatakan, setidaknya ada enam jenis penelitian kualitiatif. Dengan memahami jenis-jenis ini, Irwan berharap akan memudahkan pengelola jurnal mengenali dan memperbaiki kualitas naskah jurnal. Irwan, yang juga adalah reviewer jurnal nasional dan internasional, ini berkata bahwa selain memahami 6 jenis penelitian kualitatif, para pengelola jurnal juga harus memahami empat nalar metode kualitatif.

Enam Jenis Penelitian Kualitatif

Enam jenis penelitian itu misalnya grounded research. “Grounded research ini menarik karena dia merangsang munculnya ide-ide dan hipotesis-hipotesis survei,” jelas Irwan. Irwan menepis anggapan sebagian orang tentang grounded research yang keliru. Grounded research, menurutnya, bukan penelitian tanpa teori. “Tapi penelitian yang bertujuan membangun teori,” ungkap Irwan. Selain grounded research, kita juga bisa memahami model kualitatif yang lain seperti narrative analysis.

Irwan menjelaskan bahwa, “Narrative analysis itu dia making sense of reality. Bagaimana dia membuat realitas itu make sense.” Contoh, kata Irwan, kita meneliti berita tentang keberhasilan seorang tokoh agama yang hebat. Kita wawancara dia menggunakan analisis naratif.

“Bagaimana kita melihat tokoh kita ini menarasikan keberhasilan dna menjelaskan keberhasilan itu,” jelasnya. “Jadi di dalam narrative analysis ini kita berusaha making sense dari realitas-realitas bahasa, pake ungkapan apa, cara bahasa apa yg digunakan si tokoh. Jadi dia making senses of reality,” imbuhnya kemudian.

Jika narrative analysis mengungkap narasi bahasa, maka jenis selanjutnya yaitu Analisis konten justru berusaha mencari pola. “Content analysis berusaha mencari frekuensi dan kecenderungan pola. Biasanya di komunikasi ini. Ia melahirkan tabel-tabel,” papar Irwan, yang sejak 2018 menulis untuk jurnal-jurnal Scopus.

Sedangkan selanjutnya, Irwan menjelaskan bahwa analisis wacana berbeda dengan analisis isi. Peneliti menggunakan analisis wacana untuk melihat, “bagaimana dalam sejarah atau kultur seseorang itu membangun discourse/ wacana. Kita melihat bagaimana sejarah dia, budaya, mempengaruhi dia.”

Ada pula jenis fenomenologi. IPA fenomenologi itu merekam pengalaman. Misalnya, Irwan menyontohkan, misalnya pengalaman sembuh dari covid-19. “Dia akan menceritakan pengalamannya hingga sembuh dari Covid dan bagaimana dia memberi meaning/ makna,” kata Irwan. “Jadi di setiap tahap dari pengalamannya diberi meaning.”

Menjelang menutup materinya, Irwan mengatakan, penelitian kualitatif ini seringkali diwakili dengan istilah studi kasus. Ini kurang diperhatikan juga oleh beberapa peneliti. Ada tiga macam jenis studi kasus. Pertama, Intrinsik studi kasus. Ini adalah studi kasus mikro yanh satu peristiwa diteliti secara mendalam. “Bahkan seorang tokoh diteliti dan dijadikan biografi itu intrinsik,” ungkap Irwan.

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There are two things that greatly affect the mass media business lately. First, is digital disruption which is getting more and more common. Then the second is the Covid-19 pandemic. Both are considered to have greatly changed the landscape of the media business pattern in Indonesia. Not only upstream, but also downstream.

While still in conventional media, journalists controlled upstream to downstream. “Meanwhile, the current media upstream to downstream has changed completely, and there are even distribution problems to the accessors,” said Suwarjono, Editor-in-Chief of Arkamedia Group which is flashy with the Suara.com portal, on Friday (10/9/2021) at the National Webinar with the theme of Digital Journalism Business Models in Indonesia.

This National Webinar is made by lecturers who are members of the study interest and Digital Journalism research cluster. Lecturers in this study are also currently conducting research collaborations on Journalism and Digital Media.

In the past, conventional media could regulate distribution and even develop, now distribution is controlled by giant developers of the digital world such as Google and social media.

Both are the top two distributors to the viewer. “After that, there are aggregators such as babe, kurio, to private conversation platforms WhatsApp and Line,” said Suwarjono, giving an example of distribution lines that are not even directly controlled by digital media.

Another problem in the digital media sector is advertising. Suwarjono said, one of the effects of digital disruption is that some advertisers often turn to social media platforms. “The problem in digital media is that you still have to pay taxes, pay this and that, but influencers don’t,” said Suwarjono, who was the chairman of AJI (Independence Journalist Alliance) in 2014.

On the other hand, according to Wahyu, digital disruption has made the mass media life and death on the edge. In order to be read, all media compete to provide the latest and fastest news. “As a result, there are many similar news stories,” said Wahyu Dhyatmika, CEO of Tempo, one of the speakers for this webinar. Not to mention, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this disruption, he said.

“When news tends to be uniform, its relevance to public needs decreases,” he said again. In the long term, public trust will also decrease. In turn, content richness will also decrease as well.

“This makes the urgency even stronger, because the pandemic accelerates digital disruption,” Wahyu said.

During the disruption, what Elin Kristi calls an existential crisis in journalism also occurred. Elin Kristi, Vice Editor at Liputan6.com, said that the media business is still in the process of finding a digital journalism business model.

In this digital era, various challenges also emerge. “People now have the ability and freedom to voice themselves. Everyone can load media in this digital era,” added Elin, a seasoned journalist who started his career in the Jawa Pos media.

According to Elin, news media revenues have fallen drastically in the last few decades. “There is no clear business model to sustain news in the digital era. High quality content is the key, but good journalism does not come free,” She said in a presentation screen explaining the reality of digital media today.

In addition, there is also the threat of hoaxes emerging from social media. Especially hoaxes about covid-19. The increase in Covid-19 hoaxes in the pandemic era has substantially increased the demand for trusted media.

“From here we learned that by doing fact checks, the media cannot run alone. We have to work with the public,” said Elin, who is also an activist for digital literacy and checkfact.com.

The speakers in this webinar are all members of the IFCN international fact checking network. The media that are members of the IFCN are committed to fighting hoaxes. In order to gain public trust, only this commitment can make it easy for the public to determine which one is trustworthy in the midst of a flood of content in the current digital era.

 

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 From era to era, entertainment has changed along with changes in the media used. With the smartphone, a lot of choices of entertainment media are offered. But unexpectedly, reading comments from content posts is also one of them.

Research on the motivation of readers of comments as entertainment was investigated by Athifah Nur Husna, a student of Communication Studies at the Islamic University of Indonesia (UII). The results of his research were discussed in a monthly discussion conducted by the Center for Alternative Media Studies and Documentation (PSDMA) Nadim Ilmu Komunikas UII on Thursday, September 9, 2021. “Some of my friends often show me the comments they read. I think it means these comments are interesting. And it can be a separate research topic,” said Husna.

Today’s media is so diverse that it offers a variety of entertainment options. They start from videos, sound clips, short films, blogs, and a wide selection of content on social media. But who would have thought that comments were entertainment in itself? Columns containing comments also eventually become material that can be seen by the public and impact their readers. And no kidding, this comment can be very long. “I have a resource person who can spend hours just scrolling through the comments,” said Husna, who turns out to be usually called Una.

In this research, Husna wanted to know the sources’ motives and level of satisfaction in reading comments on specific content.

From the research results, all of the informants stated that they wanted tattoos about the content. “Usually, there is additional information that people put out in the comments,” said Husna imitating one of the sources.

In addition to additional information and information, the informants also sought different views by looking at what comments were made by people in the column. Seeing these different perspectives helps them have an opinion on a particular topic.

And what is certain, reading the comments is a different entertainment for the readers. Reading funny comments, quirky comments, or even seeing blasphemies can be entertaining.

Not surprisingly, the speakers also received inspiration from slang trends, such as the latest and new languages, to be applied every day. “It’s fun if you can find a new language or term. You can practice it later when you are chatting with friends.”

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Ada dua hal yang sangat mempengaruhi bisnis media massa belakangan ini. Pertama, adalah disrupsi digital yang kian lama kian menggurita. Lalu yang kedua adalah pandemi Covid-19. Keduanya dianggap sangat mengubah lanskap pola bisnis media di Indonesia. Tak hanya di hulu, melainkan juga di hilir.

Pada saat masih berada di media konvensional, para jurnalis menguasai hulu sampai hilir. “Sedangkan media kekinian hulu sampai hilir berubah total, bahkan ada masalah distribusi ke pengakses,” kata Suwarjono, Pemimpin Redaksi Arkamedia Grup yang mentereng dengan portal suara.com, itu pada Jumat (10/9/2021) di Webinar Nasional bertema Model Bisnis Jurnalisme Digital di Indonesia.

Webinar Nasional ini merupakan besutan para dosen yang tergabung dalam minat studi dan Klaster riset Jurnalisme Digital. Dosen-dosen di Minat studi ini juga tengah melakukan kolaborasi riset tentang Jurnalisme dan Media Digital.

Jika dahulu media konvensional bisa mengatur distribusi dan bahkan berkembang, kini distribusi dikuasai oleh pengembang raksasa dunia digital seperti google dan media sosial.

Keduanya adalah dua ditributor teratas ke pengakses. “Setelah itu ada agregator seperti babe, kurio, sampai platform percakapan pribadi WhatsApp dan Line,” kata imbuh Suwarjono memberi contoh lini distribusi yang bahkan tidak dikuasai langsung oleh media digital.

Problem lain di sektor media digital adalah soal iklan. Suwarjono bilang, salah satu efek disrupsi digital adalah beberapa pengiklan banyak lari ke Platform media sosial. “Problem di media digital adalah tetap harus bayar pajak, bayar ini itu tapi influencer kan tidak,” kata Suwarjono, yang dahulu adalah Ketua AJI pada 2014.

Di sisi lain, menurut Wahyu, disrupsi digital itu membuat hidup mati media massa di ujung tanduk. Agar dibaca, semua media berlomba memberikan berita teraktual dan tercepat. “Akibatnya yang terjadi adalah banyak berita yang serupa,” kata Wahyu Dhyatmika, CEO Tempo, salah satu pembicara webinar ini. Belum lagi, pandemi covid-19 mengakselerasi disrupsi ini, katanya.

“Ketika berita cenderung seragam, relevansinya untuk kebutuhan publik menurun,” katanya lagi. Secara jangka panjang trust (kepercayaan) publik juga akan menurun. Pada gilirannya, kekayaan konten juga akan menurun pula.

“Ini yang membuat urgensinya menjadi semakin kuat, karena pandemi mengakselerasi disrupsi digital,” kata Wahyu.

Ketika disrupsi itu, terjadi pula apa yamg disebut Elin Kristi sebagai krisis eksistensi pada jurnalisme. Elin Kristi, Wapemred Liputan6.com, mengatakan bisnis media saat ini pun masih dalam proses menemukan bisnis model jurnalisme digital.

Pada era digital ini, beragam tantangan juga bermunculan. “Masyarakat sekarang punya kemampuan dan keleluasaam untuk menyuarakan dirinya sendiri. Setiap orang bsia memnuat media di era digital ini,” imbuh Elin, wartawan kawakan yang memulai karirnya di media Jawa Pos.

Menurut Elin, pendapatan media berita turun drastis dalam beberapa dekade terakhir. “There is no clear busines model to sustain news in digital era. High quality content is the key, but good journalism does not come free,” katanya dalam layar presentasi menjelaskan realitas media digital kini.

Selain itu, ada pula ancaman munculnya hoax dari media sosial. Terutama hoax soal covid-19. Meningkatnya hoax Covid19 di era pandemi secara substantif meningkatkan pula permintaan media yang terpercaya.

“Dari sini kami belajar bahwa melakukan cek fakta, media tak bisa berjalan sendirian. Kita harus bersama publik,” kata Elin, yang juga adalak aktivis digital literacy dan cekfakta.com, ini.

Para narasumber dalam webinar ini semuanya tergabung dalam IFCN international fact checking network. Media-media yang tergabung dalam IFCN berkomitmen dalam melawan hoax. Demi meraih kepercayaan publik, hanya komitmen tersebutlah yang dapat membuat publik mudah menentukan mana yang terpercaya di tengah banjir konten pada era digital kini.

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Dari jaman ke jaman hiburan ternyata berubah seiring dengan perubahan media yang dipakai. Dengan adanya telepon pintar, banyak sekali pilihan media hiburan yang ditawarkan. Tapi tak disangka, membaca komentar dari postingan konten juga menjadi salah satunya.

Riset tentang motivasi pembaca komentar sebagai hiburan ini diteliti oleh Athifah Nur Husna, salah satu mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII). Hasil risetnya dibedah dalam diskusi bulanan yang dilakukan oleh Pusat Studi dan Dokumentasi Media Alternatif (PSDMA) Nadim ilmu Komunikas UII pada Kamis, 9 September 2021. “Beberapa temen sering menunjukan ke saya tentang komentar-komentar yang mereka baca. Saya pikir berarti komentar ini menarik dan bisa jadi topik riset tersendiri,” ungkap Husna.

Media sekarang begitu beragam menyajikan berbagai pilihan hiburan. Mulai video, soundclip, film pendek, blog, dan berbagai pilihan konten di media sosial. Tapi siapa yang mengira bahwa komentar menjadi hiburan tersendiri. Kolom -kolom berisi komentar juga akhirnya menjadi bahan yang yang bisa dilihat publik dan bisa memberikan pengaruh bagi pembacanya. Dan tak main-main, komentar ini bisa sangat panjang. “Narasumber saya ada yang bisa menghabiskan waktu berjam-jam hanya untuk nyekrol komentar,” kata Husna yang ternyata biasa disapa Una.

Dalam riset tersebut, Husna ingin mengetahui motif dan tingkat kepuasannya narasumbernya dalam membaca komentar atas konten-konten tertentu.

Dari hasil riset tersebut semua narasumber menyatakan ingin tatu tentang konten. “Hiasanya ada info tambahan yang dilontarkan orang di komentar,” kata Husna menirukan salah satu narasumber.

Selain informasi dan info tambahan, narasumber juga mencari pandangan berbeda dengan melihat komentar apa saja yang dilontarkan orang-orang di kolom tersebut. Melihat perspektif berbeda inj membantu mereka untuk meliliki pandangan atas topik tertentu.

Dsn yang pasti, membaca komentar itu menkadi hiburan tersendiri bagi pembacanya. Dengan membaca komentar-komentar lucu, cara berkomentar nyeleneh, atau bahkan melihat hujat-hujatan bisa menjadi hihuran.

Tak disnhka juga, para narasumber juga mendapat inspirasi trend slang seperti bahasa terkini dan baru, untuk dia terapkan sehari-hari. “Seru kalau bisa nemu bahasa baru atau istilah. Bisa nanti dipraktekan kalau lagi ngobrol sama teman.”

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PSDMA Nadim Komunikasi UII
Mengundang dalam Diskusi Rutin PSDMA Nadim Tema:

Membaca Komentar di Media Sosial Sebagai Hiburan

Kegiatan membaca komentar di media sosial menjadi sebuah kebiasaan bagi sebagian pengguana media sosial. Tema-tema yang diakese pun bermacam-macam. Ada teknologi , game, K-Pop, politik, kesehatan, humor, dll. Pada diskusi kali ini, narasumber akan memaparkan selain konten, fitur komentardi media sosial juga dapat menghadirkan motif dan kepuasan tersendiri bagi pengguna media sosial.

Jadwal:

Kamis, 9 September 2021
16.00 WIB

Bersama Pembicara:

Athifah Nur Husna, Mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi UII, 2017

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Program Studi Ilmu Komunikasi, UII
Minat Studi Jurnalisme Digital

Mengundang anda hadir pada
Webinar Nasional “Model Bisnis Jurnalisme Digital di Indonesia”

bersama:


Pembicara (dari kiri ke kanan): 

Suwarjono, Pemimpin Redaksi Suara.com

Elin Yunita Kristanti, Wapemred Liputan6.com, Aktivis kampanye literasi media, Cek fakta, dan data driven journalism

Wahyu Dhyatmika, CEO Tempo Digital

Moderator

Iwan Awaluddin Yusuf, Ph.D
Dosen Komunikasi UII, Alumnus School of Media, Film, and Journalism, Monash University, Australia.

Jadwal:
Jumat, 10 September 2021
15.00-17.30 WIB

GRATIS

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Research is essential in the production of creative content. Research determines how strong your podcast content will be. Creative ideas will also come naturally when podcast content research is done. This includes researching other people’s podcast content.

At least, there are five tips for researching to make your podcast content unique and exciting. “First, determine what content you want to present and who the source is,” said Tri Rizal Ghofur, Content Creative at Narasi TV  in 2018 – 2020, on Tuesday, August 31, 2021.

Ghofur is a speaker in the Webinar Series “Is it important for research in Podcast Interviews?” This webinar event with Ghofur is the 2021 Inspiring Content Festival (FKI) Series of Events. Uniicoms TV held this second year of FKI, the first online TV at UII, to produce quality and inspiring content in cyberspace.

Ghofur, the man who is also a Producer at Lemonilo, said that apart from determining the sources, we also have to read all the articles about potential sources to talk to in the podcast content. “This is important so that our content becomes unusual content,” said Ghofur, Tri Rizal Ghofur’s nickname. The second tip, said Ghofur, is to watch all the videos about the potential sources. In this way, we will also get enlightenment from the source.

Then, the fourth tip, said Ghofur, is, “chat with people closest to the source.” According to Ghofur, from the chat with the resource person, he hopes to find ideas and words that can be used as creative packaging content with the resource person.

It is also worth trying the last tips from Ghofur and for example, following and tracking the social media content of the source. From here, chat material for podcasts can become more prosperous and, indeed the material for hosts so as not to run out of chat issues.

In conclusion, Ghofur gives brief tips from starting to maintaining interesting podcast content. “Just tell me about something very close, and don’t think about using a good tool, just use a cellphone,” said Ghofur. Of course, the podcast’s producer must research the topic you want to talk about first. Then lastly, and most importantly, consistently produce content.