Journalism as a Public Political Agenda
Dudi Iskandar
Dudi Iskandar, Lecturer, Department of Communication Science, Budi Luhur University, Jakarta.
Manuscript received on 16 October 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 22 October 2019 | Manuscript Published on 02 November 2019 | PP: 329-332 | Volume-8 Issue-2S9 September 2019 | Retrieval Number: B10760982S919/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.B1076.0982S919
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Abstract: Contemporary journalism is changing dramatically. The main trigger is the development of communication technology, especially the internet. Public involvement in building issues on social media has changed news production. Because of the presence of internet journalism which originally was the process of searching for news (active), now turned into receiving news (passive). With a qualitative approach and a critical paradigm, this study uncovers how the journalism changes. Journalism is now changing from the construction of the reality of media politics to the construction of the reality of the media public agenda. The public builds a political agenda through invitation coverage, disseminates press releases, social networks, and embodied to political actors. Some of the basic assumptions of this theory are the construction of the reality of the public political agenda. First, the public constructs an agenda for their political interests. Second, the public encourages and convinces the media that its political agenda is important to the other public. Third, the public political agenda must be in line with the media-political agenda. With the construction of reality, the real powerful political agenda is public. While the media is weak because it is only a tool and has the same interests as the public political agenda. The construction theory of the public political agenda is contrary to the agenda-setting theory.
Keywords: Journalism, Internet, Public Political Agenda.
Scope of the Article: Internet Computing