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Papers by Rajab Ritonga
Media and Communication, 2019
Citizen journalism was initially practiced via mass media. This is because citizens trusted mass ... more Citizen journalism was initially practiced via mass media. This is because citizens trusted mass media as an independent information channel, and social media like Twitter was unavailable. Following mass media’s affiliation to political parties and the rise of social media, citizens began using Twitter for delivering news or information. We dub this as citizen journalism from street to tweet. This study found that such process indicates the waning of mass media and the intensification of social media. Yet, the process neither strengthened citizen journalism nor increased public participation as it resulted in netizens experiencing severe polarization between groups critical and in support of the government instead. We consider this as a new emerging phenomenon caused by the advent of new media in the post-truth era. In this context, post-truth refers to social and political conditions wherein citizens no longer respect the truth due to political polarization, fake-news-producing jou...
Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication, 2019
From a semiotics perspective, the Asian Games opening ceremony became a signifying image framed n... more From a semiotics perspective, the Asian Games opening ceremony became a signifying image framed naturally by myth. Myths as a foreigner's lackey, communist sympathizer, and anti-Islam have been cast virtually by anonymous political adversaries unto Joko Widodo (Jokowi) as one of Indonesia's presidential candidates. This study discusses the myths underlying the meaning of Jokowi's figure; how those myths developed meanings of images in the 2018 Asian Games Opening video; and how those myths became a struggle of meaning for Jokowi as the presidential candidate. This study employed the qualitative approach by using the critical paradigm. This is, thus, a research that attempts to develop elaborations concerning the concept and phenomenon of power and its practices, and it describes them to develop inductive explanation from the acquired data. Roland Barthes' semiotics method is used in this study. The text analyzed is the content of Jokowi's video during the 2018 Asian Games Opening ceremony. This research managed to produce a model for understanding the struggle of meaning involving myths and the construction of sign reality in the text display of the 2018 Asian Games opening video. The model indicates the struggle of meaning between the scripts of the ruler (the incumbent) and the myths attached within the public's ideological frame of mind.
Jurnal Pewarta Indonesia, 2021
The mass media industry particularly print media in Indonesia comes under heavy pressure to survi... more The mass media industry particularly print media in Indonesia comes under heavy pressure to survive in the era of digital disruption. High printing costs, coupled with high distribution costs and employee salaries have caused difficulties for print media companies to maintain their businesses. Some print media companies have opted to shut down their businesses, while others have to survive by making various efficient efforts and diversifying their businesses. The convergence of print media into digital media has offered an alternative to maintain print media as the management of Telaah Strategis magazine has done. This research aims to see the efforts made by the management of Telaah Strategis magazine to survive in the media industry in Indonesia. The results of this research show that Telaah Strategis magazine uses a variety of media convergence models to be able to maintain its task of disseminating information by transforming it into a news portal and digital magazine and appear...
Panggung, 2013
ABSTRACT ‘Tanda Tanya (?)’ movie has become an Indonesian cinematic work with some controver... more ABSTRACT ‘Tanda Tanya (?)’ movie has become an Indonesian cinematic work with some controversies complement with it. The controversies lie on how the movie constructed their messages related to the description of Islamic image. The Islamic image which is depicted in this movie contains several sym- bols which created a demonization on the construction of Islam and Moslem. The narrative theory that has been employed focuses on greimas actantial analysis models which emphasizes on how the narrative creates a story and how the story becomes a narrative discourse. The semiotic analysis used on this research is in term of constructivist perspective which aims at constructing the phenomena as a whole answer. The result of the research is that demonization of Islam has been constructed through the narrative sequences of ‘Tanda Tanya’. The movie depicted Islam in an image of traditional, un- civilized, terrorism, destructive, and aggressive community. This created a meaning of Isla...
Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication, 2014
Penelitian ini membahas bagaimana pertarungan makna (struggle of meaning) yang dilakukan raja akh... more Penelitian ini membahas bagaimana pertarungan makna (struggle of meaning) yang dilakukan raja akhbar Indonesia, Dahlan Iskan, dalam membangun makna tentang dirinya sebagai calon presiden di media massa miliknya ketika mengikuti Konvensi Parti Demokrat tahun 2014. Selain itu penelitian ini juga ingin melihat bagaimana gejala kekuasaan mempengaruhi atau mengintervensi penandaan (tanda) dalam bahasa media massa. Metod penyelidikan yang digunakan adalah analisis teks melalui analisis semiotik dari Theovan Leuwen, sedangkan paradigma penelitian yang digunakan adalah paradigma kritis.Dapatan kajian menunjukkan pemberitaan tentang Dahlan di suratkabar Radar Bandung dan Bandung Ekspres, merupakan usaha Dahlan dalam melakukan struggle of meanings pada kempen Konvensi Parti Demokrat. Melalui pemberitaan, Dahlan mengkonstruksi dirinya dalam susunan penandaan dalam bahasa pemberitaan yang spesifik. Teks sebagai konfigurasi penanda diarahkan untuk membentuk pemaknaan Dahlan sebagai sesuatu yang sah di mata masyarakat Indonesia. Selain itu pemaknaan Dahlan sebagai masyarakat biasa (common people) sebagaimana umumnya rakyat Indonesia. Hal ini dilakukan untuk mengarahkan pemaknaan masyarakat terhadap eksistensi Dahlan sebagai elit kerana pengalaman politik masyarakat selama ini cenderung menganggap elit sebagai penguasa yang berbeda dengan mereka. Kesimpulan penelitian adalah: suratkabar Radar Bandung dan Bandung Ekspres melalui struktur pemberitaannya telah menjadi alat dominasi bagi Dahlan dalam membangun pencitraan diri sepanjang masa kempennya.
International Journal of Control and Automation
The use of Integrated Performance Measurement System (IPMS) method in an institution under Indone... more The use of Integrated Performance Measurement System (IPMS) method in an institution under Indonesian Naval Forces (TNI AL) is intended to improve the integrated performance measurement system which generally is only based on financial accountability report. This paper presents the combination of DEMATEL, ANP, and IPMS methods for performance measurement system design. The method was designed at KOLAT KOARMATIM to analyze the achievement of the 2015 and 2016 Work Programs with 23 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), based on stakeholders' requirements of KOLAT KOARMATIM. To indicate the impact among criteria, DEMATEL is used to then determine the weight of each sub criteria and their respective KPIs identified. Based on the scoring system using Objective Matrix (OMAX), from the 2015 performance measurement conducted, the Total Performance Index obtained is amounted to 7.697; in addition, by using Traffic Light System, it is situated in the Yellow category, meaning that the performance measurement target (achievement) in 2015 has not been reached despite nearing the desired threshold target; there are 11 green KPIs, 11 yellow KPIs, and 1 red KPI. The performance measurement results in 2016 show that the Total Performance Index is amounted to 8.344 as a result of scoring by using OMAX, and by using the Traffic Light System, it is situated in the Green category, meaning that the performance measurement target (achievement) has been reached (satisfactory) with the dispersion including 16 green KPIs, 6 yellow KPIs and 1 red KPI. Red KPI is the KPI below the targets set by KOLAT KOARMATIM; hence it becomes a top priority for the implementation of improvement. Two KPIs in the red indicator include the Combat Task Exercise of The Republic of Indonesia Warship (GLAGASPUR KRI (U)) and the Development Planning (RENBANG).
Jurnal Komunikasi Ikatan Sarjana Komunikasi Indonesia
Structure of the media in Indonesia is still dominated by men who lack of gender sensitivity so t... more Structure of the media in Indonesia is still dominated by men who lack of gender sensitivity so that the role of women journalists as agents of change towards gender awareness is important to discuss. This study aims to determine the factors that make up the awareness, values and attitudes of women journalists on gender, and the influence of media and community structure in forming the gender awareness of women journalists. As a case study, a journalist of the largest newspaper in Indonesia, Kompas, namely Maria Hartiningsih is chosen. The study is based on the concept of gendered-perspective journalism as a practice of journalistic that informs and questions inequality of the relationship between men and women. The study uses a qualitative approach with the method of Critical Discourse Analysis model of Norman Fairclough. Text analysis is conducted to examine the writings of Maria Hartiningsih in Kompas related to gender issues. The results show that at the textual level—since she ...
Media and Communication, 2019
Citizen journalism was initially practiced via mass media. This is because citizens trusted mass ... more Citizen journalism was initially practiced via mass media. This is because citizens trusted mass media as an independent information channel, and social media like Twitter was unavailable. Following mass media’s affiliation to political parties and the rise of social media, citizens began using Twitter for delivering news or information. We dub this as citizen journalism from street to tweet. This study found that such process indicates the waning of mass media and the intensification of social media. Yet, the process neither strengthened citizen journalism nor increased public participation as it resulted in netizens experiencing severe polarization between groups critical and in support of the government instead. We consider this as a new emerging phenomenon caused by the advent of new media in the post-truth era. In this context, post-truth refers to social and political conditions wherein citizens no longer respect the truth due to political polarization, fake-news-producing jou...
Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication, 2019
From a semiotics perspective, the Asian Games opening ceremony became a signifying image framed n... more From a semiotics perspective, the Asian Games opening ceremony became a signifying image framed naturally by myth. Myths as a foreigner's lackey, communist sympathizer, and anti-Islam have been cast virtually by anonymous political adversaries unto Joko Widodo (Jokowi) as one of Indonesia's presidential candidates. This study discusses the myths underlying the meaning of Jokowi's figure; how those myths developed meanings of images in the 2018 Asian Games Opening video; and how those myths became a struggle of meaning for Jokowi as the presidential candidate. This study employed the qualitative approach by using the critical paradigm. This is, thus, a research that attempts to develop elaborations concerning the concept and phenomenon of power and its practices, and it describes them to develop inductive explanation from the acquired data. Roland Barthes' semiotics method is used in this study. The text analyzed is the content of Jokowi's video during the 2018 Asian Games Opening ceremony. This research managed to produce a model for understanding the struggle of meaning involving myths and the construction of sign reality in the text display of the 2018 Asian Games opening video. The model indicates the struggle of meaning between the scripts of the ruler (the incumbent) and the myths attached within the public's ideological frame of mind.
Jurnal Pewarta Indonesia, 2021
The mass media industry particularly print media in Indonesia comes under heavy pressure to survi... more The mass media industry particularly print media in Indonesia comes under heavy pressure to survive in the era of digital disruption. High printing costs, coupled with high distribution costs and employee salaries have caused difficulties for print media companies to maintain their businesses. Some print media companies have opted to shut down their businesses, while others have to survive by making various efficient efforts and diversifying their businesses. The convergence of print media into digital media has offered an alternative to maintain print media as the management of Telaah Strategis magazine has done. This research aims to see the efforts made by the management of Telaah Strategis magazine to survive in the media industry in Indonesia. The results of this research show that Telaah Strategis magazine uses a variety of media convergence models to be able to maintain its task of disseminating information by transforming it into a news portal and digital magazine and appear...
Panggung, 2013
ABSTRACT ‘Tanda Tanya (?)’ movie has become an Indonesian cinematic work with some controver... more ABSTRACT ‘Tanda Tanya (?)’ movie has become an Indonesian cinematic work with some controversies complement with it. The controversies lie on how the movie constructed their messages related to the description of Islamic image. The Islamic image which is depicted in this movie contains several sym- bols which created a demonization on the construction of Islam and Moslem. The narrative theory that has been employed focuses on greimas actantial analysis models which emphasizes on how the narrative creates a story and how the story becomes a narrative discourse. The semiotic analysis used on this research is in term of constructivist perspective which aims at constructing the phenomena as a whole answer. The result of the research is that demonization of Islam has been constructed through the narrative sequences of ‘Tanda Tanya’. The movie depicted Islam in an image of traditional, un- civilized, terrorism, destructive, and aggressive community. This created a meaning of Isla...
Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication, 2014
Penelitian ini membahas bagaimana pertarungan makna (struggle of meaning) yang dilakukan raja akh... more Penelitian ini membahas bagaimana pertarungan makna (struggle of meaning) yang dilakukan raja akhbar Indonesia, Dahlan Iskan, dalam membangun makna tentang dirinya sebagai calon presiden di media massa miliknya ketika mengikuti Konvensi Parti Demokrat tahun 2014. Selain itu penelitian ini juga ingin melihat bagaimana gejala kekuasaan mempengaruhi atau mengintervensi penandaan (tanda) dalam bahasa media massa. Metod penyelidikan yang digunakan adalah analisis teks melalui analisis semiotik dari Theovan Leuwen, sedangkan paradigma penelitian yang digunakan adalah paradigma kritis.Dapatan kajian menunjukkan pemberitaan tentang Dahlan di suratkabar Radar Bandung dan Bandung Ekspres, merupakan usaha Dahlan dalam melakukan struggle of meanings pada kempen Konvensi Parti Demokrat. Melalui pemberitaan, Dahlan mengkonstruksi dirinya dalam susunan penandaan dalam bahasa pemberitaan yang spesifik. Teks sebagai konfigurasi penanda diarahkan untuk membentuk pemaknaan Dahlan sebagai sesuatu yang sah di mata masyarakat Indonesia. Selain itu pemaknaan Dahlan sebagai masyarakat biasa (common people) sebagaimana umumnya rakyat Indonesia. Hal ini dilakukan untuk mengarahkan pemaknaan masyarakat terhadap eksistensi Dahlan sebagai elit kerana pengalaman politik masyarakat selama ini cenderung menganggap elit sebagai penguasa yang berbeda dengan mereka. Kesimpulan penelitian adalah: suratkabar Radar Bandung dan Bandung Ekspres melalui struktur pemberitaannya telah menjadi alat dominasi bagi Dahlan dalam membangun pencitraan diri sepanjang masa kempennya.
International Journal of Control and Automation
The use of Integrated Performance Measurement System (IPMS) method in an institution under Indone... more The use of Integrated Performance Measurement System (IPMS) method in an institution under Indonesian Naval Forces (TNI AL) is intended to improve the integrated performance measurement system which generally is only based on financial accountability report. This paper presents the combination of DEMATEL, ANP, and IPMS methods for performance measurement system design. The method was designed at KOLAT KOARMATIM to analyze the achievement of the 2015 and 2016 Work Programs with 23 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), based on stakeholders' requirements of KOLAT KOARMATIM. To indicate the impact among criteria, DEMATEL is used to then determine the weight of each sub criteria and their respective KPIs identified. Based on the scoring system using Objective Matrix (OMAX), from the 2015 performance measurement conducted, the Total Performance Index obtained is amounted to 7.697; in addition, by using Traffic Light System, it is situated in the Yellow category, meaning that the performance measurement target (achievement) in 2015 has not been reached despite nearing the desired threshold target; there are 11 green KPIs, 11 yellow KPIs, and 1 red KPI. The performance measurement results in 2016 show that the Total Performance Index is amounted to 8.344 as a result of scoring by using OMAX, and by using the Traffic Light System, it is situated in the Green category, meaning that the performance measurement target (achievement) has been reached (satisfactory) with the dispersion including 16 green KPIs, 6 yellow KPIs and 1 red KPI. Red KPI is the KPI below the targets set by KOLAT KOARMATIM; hence it becomes a top priority for the implementation of improvement. Two KPIs in the red indicator include the Combat Task Exercise of The Republic of Indonesia Warship (GLAGASPUR KRI (U)) and the Development Planning (RENBANG).
Jurnal Komunikasi Ikatan Sarjana Komunikasi Indonesia
Structure of the media in Indonesia is still dominated by men who lack of gender sensitivity so t... more Structure of the media in Indonesia is still dominated by men who lack of gender sensitivity so that the role of women journalists as agents of change towards gender awareness is important to discuss. This study aims to determine the factors that make up the awareness, values and attitudes of women journalists on gender, and the influence of media and community structure in forming the gender awareness of women journalists. As a case study, a journalist of the largest newspaper in Indonesia, Kompas, namely Maria Hartiningsih is chosen. The study is based on the concept of gendered-perspective journalism as a practice of journalistic that informs and questions inequality of the relationship between men and women. The study uses a qualitative approach with the method of Critical Discourse Analysis model of Norman Fairclough. Text analysis is conducted to examine the writings of Maria Hartiningsih in Kompas related to gender issues. The results show that at the textual level—since she ...