Communication Technology and Stronger Community Alienation

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10.2991/assehr.k.200818.042How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Alienation, communication technology, society

Abstract

This research background consists of some aspects: (1) communication technology development which increases rapidly, (2) technology influences society’s attitude and behavior, (3) the society’s alienation existence of technology product. The research problem which proposed was “how is the communication technology development build society’s alienation?’. In addition, the research subject was the permanent reporter of Bestari newspaper at University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM). Malang was become the research location. The data were collected by interview and documentation, while the analysis implemented was individual analysis. However, the research method was quantitative with individual analysis unit; focused on the research subjects’ attitude and behavior which influenced by the communication technology development. Then, the analysis interactive was applied to analyze the data. The findings of this research were; (1) technology strengthened the human dependency to be alien of their social environment; (2) technology caused the social relationship be mechanical; (3) human alienation that was influenced by the technology capitalization developing to the commodity.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nurudin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/19
TI  - Communication Technology and Stronger Community Alienation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Jogjakarta Communication Conference (JCC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 184
EP  - 185
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200818.042
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200818.042
ID  - 2020
ER  -