RISET PENGGUNAAN MEDIA DAN PERKEMBANGANNYA KINI
Main Article Content
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Theory of Uses-and-gratifications (U & G) is one of theories used by most of media usage studies. This theory gives an attention on what people do with media. Formely, that theory was develoved by Kazt and Gurevic. Recently, it has develoved siginificantly, specially on its gratifivations concept. This significant development was influenced by the develpment of new media (internet). This article studied about state of the art of the theory within last 13 years. The result showed that the theory was fuctioned as single or core theory in most studies. Sometimes, several studies used other theory for example Media Dependency Theory. Although those two theories were different to each other in their elements (assumption and concept), but they have a similarity in the term of the study object (audience), and in theoretical tradition (social-psychological). Its gratification concept has a propensity to be miscellaneous. Moreover, media that met with an audience’s need have been developing from traditional into new media (internet), even into certain application. Past research approach was generally quantitative by surveying, and sometime qualitative approach to enrich data. Additionally, most surveys were conducted by internet (online surveys).
Keywords: Uses; Gratifications; Media
ABSTRAK
Uses-and-gratifications (U & G) merupakan salah satu teori yang banyak digunakan dalam penelitian tentang penggunaan media. Teori ini memberikan perhatian pada apa yang dilakukan khalayak terhadap media. Teori yang awalnya dikembangkan Kazt dan Gurevic memiliki banyak perkembangan khususnya pada konsep gratifikasinya. Perkembangan yang pesat ini muncul setelah berkembangnya media baru atau internet. Tulisan ini mengkaji state of the art teori tersebut pada 13 tahun terakhir. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa teori tersebut sering dijadikan teori inti dalam kajian penggunaan media. Adakalanya beberapa penelitian memadukan teori tersebut dengan Teori Media Dependency. Kendatipun berbeda dalam hal asumsi dan konsepnya, kedua tersebut memiliki kesamaan dalam hal titik fokusnya yang memusatkan kajian pada khalayak, dan sama dalam hal tradisi teorinya yaitu sosio-psikologis. Konsep gratifikasi teori ini cenderung semakin beragam. Media yang memenuhi kebutuhan khalayak mengalami perkembangan dari media tradisional ke media baru (internet), bahkan ke aplikasi tertentu. Pendekatan penelitian yang digunakan umumnya menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan teknik survei (acapkali didukung juga dengan pendekatan kualitatif). Survei yang dilakukan umumnya sudah lazim dilakukan secara online.
Kata-kata Kunci: Penggunaan; Gratifikasi, Media
Article Details
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Copyright on any article is retained by the author(s).
- Author grant the journal, right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
- The article and any associated published material is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License