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Tricks for Writing to be Accepted on Media: Tricks from UII Students

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Online media is now the most favorite media in the world. Young readers have now 100 percent switched to online platforms. Online news and articles are increasingly in demand by the media. Many news and articles appear. Often the content of one media with other media is similar. The writing style makes the reader-run away because it is not attractive.

Nurul Fajrikusumastuti, student of Communication Studies at the Islamic University of Indonesia (UII), a contributor to liputan6.com, provides some tricks and tips to penetrate online media. In a monthly discussion organized by the Center for Alternative Media Studies and Documentation (PSDMA) NADIM on December 15, 2021, Nurul explained the method that has been effective since May 2021 to penetrate online media. Dozens of his writings have been published in the online media.

Communicative, not just informative!

The psychology of online readers today is different from that of book readers. Writing must be full of information, but if it is too full of data, the reader will be tired of digesting it. Online media readers are now more comfortable if they are involved in writing. “For example, we can open with little pleasantries like this: you all must have experienced traffic jams. Now imagine how it feels!” Nurul gave an example.

Keyword Hits, Hips

Perspective, The world of online media is like fighting over readers. To be read, the title and topic must be a magnet to attract readers to open the news page. For that, the title must be eye-catching. To get on the radar and appear on the main page of search engines, topics must contain keywords that are currently hit or are trending.

However, the article’s content will be very dull if the contents of one news with other news are only repeated. The author must see a different perspective, even with the same theme. “Yesterday it was viral about the artist’s accident on the toll road. Maybe what comes to mind is the chronology. But in the days ahead, the chronology theme can’t be reloaded. We have to write with the theme of the accident but with a different perspective. For example, we make a kaleidoscope of accidents for a year or other themes,” explained Nurul, who also qualified as a contributor after going through several pieces of training at the student level.

December 17, 2021

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Is it Possible to be a Writer and Journalist Since a Student

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Involvement in organizational and non-organizational activities opens up opportunities for improving soft skills and developing portfolios. This will be very beneficial for students who want to facilitate future career opportunities.

The discussion organized by the Center for Alternative Media Studies and Documentation (PSDMA) NAdim Communication Department, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) discussed the experiences of two students who while studying while also pursuing careers as journalists in online media, namely Purworejonews and liputan6.com. On Wednesday, December 15th, 2021, presenting Siti Fauziah or so-called Fau (Purworejonews) and Nurul Fajri Kusumastuti (liputan6.com).

These two UII Department of communication students work in the media by writing articles for different media. Even though they are both article writers, they have other stories in their journey.

Before becoming part of Perworejonews, Siti Fauziah was actively involved in the Student Journalist Community at UII Public Relations. The ability to write articles makes it easy to meet the needs of article writers on purworejonews.

Unlike Nurul, this 2018 communication student took part in a training organized by liputan6. This complete training, which only six people attended, provided him with many things and honed his skills in the field of journalism. After the training, seeing his excellent competence in the world of writing, Nurul was offered to be one of the contributors at liputan6.com since May 2021.

Nurul and Fau get several benefits by being involved in various activities. In addition to getting an honorarium for each article published, they can also develop themselves with the multiple experiences and soft skills they get in the media. “I didn’t think about getting honors at first. I just thought that this would be good for building my portfolio,” said Nurul.

December 17, 2021

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P2A Final Presentation: 10 Creative Media from 6 Countries

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After several webinars and general lectures, all of the participants of P2A start to make a creative media production for two weeks. All of the participants were divided into ten groups. Every group contains various members from any university and country in ASEAN. Such as Indonesia (UII and UAJ), Vietnam (DTU dan UEL), Cambodia (AIC), Malaysia (UUM), Singapore, and Filipina.

And the D day has come, ot 10 December 2021, after weeks and teamwork, each group was invited to present their final results. Some of them offer a photo story with flipbook medium, or website of photo stories, some of them were presenting e-magazine, or some of them present an animation so-called picture story

Many of them also create vlogs and group vlogs. The exciting thing is what theme they bring to the judges. For example, you can see how they present different themes and topics such as various ice cream in other countries in ASEAN, Historical Places in Asia, or you can see multiple unique jobs or professions across the country. At least there collected ten creative media from ten groups, six countries, eight campuses, and more than a hundred students (participant).

There are many comments from the judges, who are also a lecturer from partners of P2A Ice Cream. “This is a perfect learning process for them and their future. Yeah. Congratulation to all of you. You know, not all our students have the opportunity to join this program,” said Dorien Kartikawangi, head of School of Communication, Universita Katolik Atma Jaya, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Adzira Husain, lecturer at the School of Computing, College of Arts & Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia, also appreciates all groups. She shares more comments on the concept, the cinematography, the photo, and other technique of the work. “I know it’s hard to get the commitment from a different country, but you have done it the best,” Said Adzira Husain.

At the same time, Herman Felani, lecturer of the Department of Communications, UII, also appreciate the team’s hard work. He congrats all the teamwork and the mentors who have accompanied the creative media process. “This is also your project-based learning. So the process is also much more precious than just the result. But of course, we want an outcome-based, good,” said Herman Felani.

December 11, 2021

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Towards the Internationalization of Journals at FPSB

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The internationalization of journals within the FPSB UII is increasingly urgent. This is in line with issuing a new regulation from the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education regarding Guidelines for Accreditation of Scientific Journals in 2021. This regulation was made and ratified in mid-2021. This regulation contains several changes that make all journal managers at UII have to adapt to international standards.

Based on the Guide to Accreditation of Scientific Journals issued in 2021 by decree Number 106/E/KPT/2021, the Director-General of Higher Education, Ministry of education, several changes emerged. For example, there must be a certain number of reviewers involved. In the past, accreditation standards only required the existence of a reviewer, now not only that, now reviewer must be internationally qualified and come from at least four countries. Points on this item are valued at six points. If you want high journal accreditation assessment points, the composition of these four countries also applies to the design of the internationally qualified editing board. Writers should also come from more than five countries in a year.

Yuli Andriansyah said this at the Journal Internationalization Workshop for UII Psychology Journal Staff on December 9, 2021. Although it was intended for Psychology staff, staff from the Communication Journal, AJMC, JEE, and JIP were also present because of the urgency of internationalization covering all journals in the end. Yuli Andriansyah, Lecturer of Islamic Economics and senior in journal management at UII, said that all national journals that want to maintain or improve their SINTA must inevitably have review partners, editors, and even authors from more than one four countries.

On this occasion, Yuli, the manager of the Millah and Unisia journals, started the workshop by studying the Higher Education accreditation guidelines and introducing international journals. The introduction is also done by exploring and recognizing the characteristics of writers and journals called international writers and journals of international repute. The introduction of international journals and publishers brings understanding and the introduction of suitable review partners and experts in their fields. Also, an example of looking at academic expertise from the Scopus H-index and campus credibility. In the end, in the second session, all staff were asked to practice tracking collecting a database of prospective authors, editorial boards, and international reviewers.

December 10, 2021

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Consistent Muhasabah for the Blessing of Time

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Time is a term that never ends. Time is always the scapegoat when it comes to working. Some can take advantage of the time; some are not. Some like to be complacent with time; on the contrary, it is too much. However, has the time we used reached a blessing?

On this occasion, NgajiKomunikasi was back with Ustadz Zakaria Rifqi Alfian, Lc. Zakaria is a Masters’s student at the Islamic University of Medina. He said, quoting the famous saying of Imam Shafi’i, “time is like a sword. If we are not able to use it, time itself will cut us down.” he said in the Zoom Conference Ngajikomunikasi on Saturday, December 4, 2021, at the UII Communication Study Program. Zakaria, guided by Herman Felani (UII Visual Communications Cluster and Communication Lecturer) as moderator, talked about making all academics get the blessing of time.

NgajiKomunikasi is a routine study program that has been held since early 2021 by the UII Communication Studies Study Program. This study discusses various current topics related to the latest communication and Islamic phenomena. For example, in one session, Ngaji Komunikasi discussed the Covid-19 phenomenon from a phenomenological and Islamic perspective. And now, the discussion is focused on time and achieving its blessings.

Hasan Al Bashri said Zakaria once said a word related to time. According to Hasan Al Bashri, every ummah needs to take time because he will never return. Hasan Al Bashri is the son of the Prophet’s companions who participated in writing the Qur’anic manuscripts named Zaid Bin Thabit. Zaid’s son said one thing that should be contemplated in responding to time. He said, “O Son of Adam, you are nothing but a collection of days, every day that passes, then a part of you goes with it.”

Therefore, it is essential to carry out continuous self-evaluation (muhasabah), said Zakaria. Zakaria emphasized the importance of muhasabah to achieve the blessings of our time so far by quoting the wise words of Ibn Mas’ud. “I had never regretted something like my regret for a day when the sun had set, while my death was drawing near, and my deeds were not increasing,” said Zakaria citing Ibn Mas’ud.

December 5, 2021

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Narrative Cartography: Walking as a Methodology for Mapping Cultural Memory

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So far, the maps we know are geographical maps: islands, regions, countries, continents, lakes, seas, land. However, if we get acquainted with history, the map may change color. For example, a geopolitical map where certain regions are supporters or opponents of a block or ally at a particular time. Then the map will change because there is a specific war or agreement ten years later.

Zaki Habibi offers a methodology for making new maps of specific cultural memories by walking. Collect, look for memory variations and then describe them in a narrative map. Maps, as a medium for telling stories.

Monthly Discussion Center for Alternative Media Studies and Documentation (PSDMA) NADIM invites Zaki Habibi, a lecturer in Communication Studies at the Islamic University of Indonesia (UII), who recently completed his doctoral studies in Sweden. The discussion on December 3, 021 offered a new method in studying geographic communication and cultural memory: “Narrative Cartography” works as a methodology for mapping cultural memory.”

The idea of this narrative cartography departs from the critique of a single voice and a passion for seeking variety and diversity of cultural meanings for a particular region and culture. So far, the science and science studied are very anthropocentric, in the sense that all knowledge is used to help human interests: technology to facilitate humans, geology for human goods, agriculture to produce human prosperity.

“Well, the perspective that is built will be beyond the human world. This means that humans are not the only ones who live and live in prisons where all things are intended for human life and prosperity. But that humans are one entity related to other entities such as animals, plants, air, soil and other living entities in the ecosystem.”

For example, National boundaries are irrelevant because now there is interconnectedness and networking as citizens of a city. Those concerned with disaster certainly have a different map, or people with environmental concerns certainly have another map. For example, certain areas have certain geographical and geological conditions and potential disasters; they are associated with humans. In the future, it will be possible to map which areas are vulnerable, which areas are safe for settlement, which areas will be suitable for agricultural land, and so on.

So far, the map seems to be holding back. “This map regulates government-to-government relations but does not set creativity. People experience life on the coast. Differently, the north coast and the south coast have different lifestyles, and creativity to overcome various life problems simultaneously have certain similarities, “said Zaki.

Zaki emphasized that the task of a scholar is to be a part of connecting and understanding these differences.

December 5, 2021

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The Model of the Three Mandates of Higher Education in Indonesia and the Roadmap for the Department of Communication UII

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Some time ago, the team led by Masduki, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) Communication Lecturer, Journalism, and Media Regulation research cluster, completed the Road Map or 50 Years Roadmap of UII Communication Science. This Roadmap summarizes various plans and responses to current conditions and future projections. Mainly the response to digitalization, the challenges of disruption, and the humanitarian crisis due to modernization.

Masduki, Doctor of Communications at UII, a specialist in the study of public broadcasting and the political economy of media, said that several things became input or background for the importance of making this 50-year roadmap. Its upstream are three university mandates covering research, teaching, and service. “In the global scope, conflicts of civilization arise, at the Indonesian level there are problems related to the implementation of democracy, then in the context of Islam it is important to discuss the relation between Islam and empowerment,” said Masduki at the seminar presentation session as well as socialization and roadshow of the UII Communication Studies Study Program Roadmap which was held on Friday, December 3, 2021.

This event was hosted by Moderator Anang Hermawan, a doctoral candidate for the communication and empowerment cluster from UII, and invited Speaker Septiawan Santana Kurnia as Dean of FIKOM Unisba. Doctor Septiawan Santana appreciates this roadmap and provides input from the experience of the Communication Faculty of Universitas Islam Bandung (Unisba) over the past almost 30 years. According to him, same as what the Dean of FPCS UII said, it is perfect, and it is time for the Department of Communication at UII to become a Faculty that will undoubtedly increase its reach and access.

The three regions also have the output indicators of these three areas on the practical roadmap. First, indicators in the field of research are the presence of research roadmaps and international research collaborations. This includes conferences and international journal publications. It is also essential to have downstream research.

Second, indicators in teaching are the availability of S1, S2, to S3, post-doctoral levels, to international cooperation. The international collaboration in question is, for example, in the form of a double degree and student lecture mobility. It is also important to accelerate the achievement of students and lecturers. The third is the output indicator in the service field by contributing to applicable adaptive technology, contributions at the level of improving the quality of media and information, regulatory reform, and others.

In turn, in the field of research, the expected outcome or impact of the first 50-year roadmap design is the birth of schools of thought and scientists in the field of communication (prophetic perspective, Indonesian, etc.) as a form of de-westernization. There is a discourse on the emergence of the Kaliurang School, which looks like the Frankfurt School in Germany. The outcome in teaching is that alumni’s progress is increasingly felt at the Indonesian and international levels. At the same time, the work in the field of service is the creation of civil society as a form of communication democracy for the welfare of society.

December 5, 2021

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FKI 2nd: Lesson Learnt Creating Creative Media from Awarding FKI

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The FKI (Inspirational Content Festival) has finally reached its conclusion. Ikonisia TV presented an awards ceremony, as well as interviews with the judges, for a competition to make creative and inspirational content. Regardless of whether they won, participants received immediate feedback on their effort.

On November 30, 2021, the announcement and awarding of the 2nd FKI were broadcast live on Ikonisia TV’s Youtube page. Ifa Zulkurnaini, a researcher at the Center for Alternative Media Studies and Documentation (PSDMA) NADIM of the UII Communications Department, hosted the event, introducing Bagoes Kresnawan also known as Bagus Tikus, one of the judges, and Heri Fadlie, another jury member.

There are three competitive categories in this year’s FKI tournament. The first is the fiction category. Bagoes claims that anyone who chooses a work in the Fiction category is unafraid of being evaluated or of any other fear. “For friends, laying the first foundation is a watershed moment. Bagoes said on the works in the Fiction category, “Valuable quality issues will be established over time.”

Video podcasts are another option. This podcast, according to Bagoes, is a trap-filled genre. “It sounds simple, chatting and hearing people share,” says the narrator. But what people tolerate is that they stay to watch till the finish,” Bagoes, who is also the founder of huntingpasar (dot) id, added. “But that’s fine; podcasting allows people to talk freely.” Unlike others, iPod broadcasting, for example, people chat, is intimate. The point is intimacy, depth,” he added.

As for the documentary category, it must capture the world as it is. “It has to inspire or move,” said Bagoes. According to him, documentaries are also a medium for social criticism. People will feel moved. Many pitfalls arise when working on a documentary, said Bagus, sometimes the documentary makes you bored. “I like it the most when there are many conflicts, the phenomenon of the land mafia, for example. How to deal with continuous conflicts. In storytelling, there are ups and downs. It moves people to think and act,” added Bagoes, telling his experience about the characteristics of the documentary.

Especially the things that need to be prepared and matured by the participants are in terms of story writing. “Sometimes we feel that this can be more interesting. It should be able to plot it like this. Interesting. The problem of image quality is that it’s easy; it’s a matter of tools. You can buy or rent it,” said Bagoes. The most important thing is about writing the script. But about what message we will convey, it requires a long reflection.

The key to a good documentary, said Bagoes, is also the approach to the film’s subject. “I approached Mr. Min, my documentary subject used to take two weeks. I ate there, ordered food and drink many times. Chatted, he trusted us, it was comfortable,” said Bagoes. Even Bagoes finally became acquainted and understood whether the subject was easy to joke or stubborn and so on. “So we know the character first,” he said. So please don’t rush to do it. Want to go viral fast. You can stop by, ask how, play, close first. Good human relations. Because the core of the documentary is to capture reality.

Bagoes said there are many theories in approaching the subject in our films. “Don’t just seem to take advantage or use it. The important thing is that while taking pictures, later you want to be cool or go bankrupt, it’s up to you. Periodically contact the subject. Ask for news. Then also establish good relations,” said Bagoes, telling his experience.

According to Heri Fadli, another jury, many approaches or storytelling techniques can be used in producing documentaries. For example, short or long documentaries are interactive, expository, participatory, and observational approaches.

December 1, 2021

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Websites Need Not Only Content But Aesthetic Graphics

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Graphic design of website content does not seem easy for some people. Moreover, it is carried out by staff who are not graphic design specialists, especially on the department’s website content, unit, or faculty. Ideally, the website as the vanguard and the first entrance to the UII institution should be designed with an attractive and artistic appearance. Not only need news and information content updates.

Based on that, UII’s Public Relations Division held an Online Workshop on Website Content Graphic Design on Tuesday, November 30, 2021. The speaker on that occasion was Rifda Sakina Anshori, who was previously the graphic design division within the UII Marketing Directorate. Rifda, who is also an alumnus of UII architecture, gave material on visual design techniques for website content using Corel Draw. After providing a conceptual introduction to the philosophy and tips of graphic design, Rifda also invited the participants to practice directly creating a website slider using the Corel Draw software step by step.

Ratna Permata Sari, Communications Lecturer at UII and Head of Public Relations at UII, said that digital displays are now inevitable in today’s digital era. “Mbak rifda will give stages of graphic design and basic concepts, especially color issues. Color is a bit sensitive; some say it is also subjective,” said Ratna opening online training for all website managers in UII.

“There are color guidelines. There are colors for the print medium. Some colors need to be considered according to the colors of UII. Ms. Rifda will later provide good reference images or cartoons to be used as design materials. Including being informed that this is paid or not,” added Ratna.

“How to maintain the website also requires budgeting at the leadership level. Even though it is not large, the leadership still has to budget for website maintenance,” Ratna hoped the leaders at the unit, department, and faculty level.

Ratna said this training aimed to achieve an attractive and attractive website appearance. “In addition to website design, we also need website maintenance and updating.”

Rifda, in her material, said that there are various types of people designing graphics. “It could be that he can design a website graphic but is less sensitive in taste. Or it could be the other way around,” said Rifda. This type is influenced by taste and ability. According to Rifda, taste is a designer’s compass, and ability is his vehicle.

The first type, for example, is that there are people who think their work is good when in fact, it is not. Both taste and ability are equally lacking. Another type is aware that his work is not good but cannot make it good. The third type is the execution of the design is good, but the result is not good. While the fourth, the work is good, and the aesthetic sense is interesting. “This is everyone’s dream designer,” said Rifda.

Rifda and the Public Relations Team also provide practice materials for designing sliders in Corel Draw. Practice starts from creating objects in Corel, determining colors, recognizing tools, cropping photos, selecting images, arranging stock images to update the website slider from time to time.

November 30, 2021

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Himakom UII Towards a Good and Fun Organizational Governance

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Good organizational governance is no doubt a prerequisite for achieving organizational goals. Organizations whose goals are accomplished are successful organizations. Governance is not only a matter of administration an sich, but also the management of resources, knowledge and planning activities.

In order to increase the young communication cadres HIMAKOM (Communication Student Association). UII Communication Studies Study Program held a “Workshop on Strengthening Himakom Organizational Governance” on Friday, 26 to 27 November 2021. This training was attended by representatives of Himakom Core Management, Himakom A Commission, Himakom B Commission, Himakom C Commission, and D Commission Representatives Student communities or clubs are also present. For example, representatives of the Dispensation Community (communication research and discussion), Klik18 (Community of Communication Science Lens Unit 18), Galaxy Radio, Red-action, and also Kompor (Communication of Communication Pilm People).

This activity is motivated by problems that often arise when Himakom holds a program/event. The proposals submitted often receive a lot of evaluation from the Communication Studies Program at the Islamic University of Indonesia. This evaluation is generally related to three things: the problem of preparing a proposal or how program ideas are formulated in a proposal format, then the second is a matter of the substance of program needs. Are activities needed or just continuing the tradition without knowing the current goals and needs at the student level. Then the third is the lack of administrative order, starting from the submission of tight proposals to evaluations and reports that have not been completed in several program activities.

“The goal of this activity is to improve the organizational governance skills of the members/internal administrators of the Communication Science Student Association, and at least the community administrators and himakom present can design a short-term program and make it into a proposal format and TOR,” said Holy Rafika Dhona, Lecturer of Communications. UII, which is also the person in charge of Himakom capacity building activities on November 26, 2021. Another goal is the agreement on the TOR and Proposal formats that can be used as references in program submission. The committee from the Communication and Communications Lab, PSDM Nadim, Administrative Staff of the UII Communication Studies Study Program also hoped that the participants would understand the procedures in the Communications Study Program related to the program.

Therefore, the activity is designed with an online workshop model accompanied by practice. First, on the first day on November 26, 2021, Yudi Winarto from the Administrative Staff and Iskandar Gunawan of the UII Communication Laboratory Laboratory team became the first presenters. Yudi explained the financial and submission procedures with his infographic presentation, then Gunawan explained the procedures for borrowing tools and facilities that students should optimize to support improving communication skills.

After that, A. Pambudi W as a speaker in the second session, explained how to create and design an Action Plan based on the needs of members with SMART indicator measures (Specific, measurable, Achieveable, Reasonable, TImebound). The participants were then asked to practice in groups to design an action plan for activities starting from mapping out their needs and what programs could answer the participants’ needs. Furthermore, in the third session the next day on 27 November 2021, Holy Rafika became a speaker on how to make proposals and TOR/Term of reference (also terms of reference for activities/KAK). Holy explained the structure of the document and its philosophy.

In the end, there were several documents that were made in the practice session. Both action plan documents and proposals and TORs. In the future, community representatives and Himakom promise to use this format and template as a basis for preparing proposals and TORs during the activity submission period.

Some participants also appreciated this activity. For example, one of them thought that this activity was important for the managers of the student community at UII Communications. “It is better if activities like this are routinely held every change of management, both Himakom and the community so that later there will be a transfer of knowledge to the next management,” Maritza Khanza, the top management of HIMAKOM wrote in the suggestion column on the google form.