Komunika (Mar 2015)

PERANAN INTERNET SEBAGAI MEDIA KOMUNIKASI

  • Mukhtar Effendi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24090/komunika.v3i2.143
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 130 – 142

Abstract

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Currently, the Internet not only become an alternative communication media, but even helped form a new communication patterns. Nevertheless, there has been no communication science theories that can accommodate communication through this internet. Meanwhile, theories of communication that already exist that can be used for runway approach to Internet research is the theory of the uses and gratifications which focuses on media, passive and active communicants. Meanwhile, supporters of reference is still a concept rather than a middle-range theory. This paper seeks to explore existing concepts in communication via the Internet based on theories that have existed from the science of communication

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