SOSIALISASI ETIKA PENGGUNAAN HANDPHONE BAGI SISWA SMP DI KOTA BENGKULU

Abstract

The use of communication media, especially mobile phones is unfortunately not felt right. It sees a lot of users who do not 'unethical' when using mobile phones; for example many children of school age or adolescent even adults use phone while driving a motorcycle or a car. Another case is the misused of mobile phones such as pornographic video recording made by one of the school students in the city of Bengkulu. The video then uploaded to the internet media like youtube.com. It looks like the users of communication media is not or should not even understand how to communicate well using the media. The rise of the 'sights' of this makes the basis for the holding of this service activity. The activity goal is to provide knowledge to students with regard to communication media, helping students to develop a critical understanding and adequate information about the use of good communication media, providing knowledge to students on how good ethics in the use of communication media, especially mobile phones and equip students early capable of communicating with both to make use of existing media, especially mobile phones. The target audience of the communication media education activities is students of SMP 1 and SMP 11, and SMP 7 representing students in the city of Bengkulu with the number of attending students in this event each grade level were 10 people representing his friends. The activities are lectures, discussion, and simulation of media education with the ultimate goal of improved understanding of the students in the use communication media, especially mobile phones. The result shows that many of students have new knowledge about the ethics of phone using. Keywords: communication, phone, communication ethics, mass media