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Together in Loneliness

The first thing that we search each time we open our eyes in the morning is our cell phone. We are connected to the world through it, connected to our world. Our lives depend on it. It’s a little thing that have a huge psychological impact on us, including the way we construct our self-concept and make an interaction with others. Social interaction is a dynamic relation between one and another human. Meaning, perception, even social structure created by social interaction. Social interaction happen when we two people meet and having a conversation, discussion, or fight and hit each other. The activity where there are an action and reaction between two people or more. As the technology born, the way of social interaction change gradually. It divided into two ways. An interaction that happen in real life happen in real time and space with real people, and an interaction that happen through our gadget, technology, internet, an “illusion world”. Everything are different in illusion w...

Are We Really Change?

“You have changed” “You’re not the same person I used to know” “Now you’re just somebody that I used to know” Those lines that we used to hear in each critical conflict between couple, bestfriend, or I should said in a dramatical situation. Sometimes, change could be a big challenge, that you have to sacrifice something important in your life, saying yes to one thing that means no to many things, standing on the different perspective of your life. If we looked into how a person that totally out of shape of his body could turned into a deadly strong and shaped one. How? Sacrifice. He sacrifice his time, fatigue, he conquered himself to be a better one. He believed that you don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. He believed in progress, that everything has a process. The more he trained, the bigger progressed he will received. Train makes progress, progress makes perfect. The more you open your mind, the more often you change your perspecti...

Masyarakat Sebagai Media Informasi

Seiring dengan perkembangan zaman, perkembangan teknologi, informasi, dan komunikasipun semakin terlihat mencolok. Dalam kurun waktu pendek, sudah terasa drastis sekali perubahannya. Komunikasi yang tadinya hanya searah pun, yakni dari atas ke bawah, telah berubah menjadi komunikasi dua arah. Masyarakat yang tadinya cenderung bersikap pasif terhadap media informasi, yakni hanya sebagai penonton atau pembaca, sekarang menjadi cenderung aktif. Yang dimaksudkan aktif disini ialah manusia telah berkembang dan ikut berartisipasi dalam media informasi, bahkan kini sebagian besar masyarakat sering kali menjadi sumber informasi itu sendiri. Perkembangan manusia dari yang sebelumnya bersifat pasif menjadi aktif tidak terjadi begitu saja. Dimana pada awalnya manusia cenderung menjadi penonton, dan penerima informasi yang diberikan. Lalu, dengan perkembangan media jurnalistik menjadi media yang lebih independen, rasa keingintahuan dan kebutuhan akan informasi masyarakat pun meningkat. Mereka mu...