Global Communico: Jurnal Mahasiswa Komunikasi dan Dakwah

Analisis Resepsi Penonton Terhadap Genre Boys' Love (BL): Kritik dan Kegelisahan di Era Media Digital

Ginaya Ramadhani Kautsar — 2026-09-17

The development of digital media has contributed to the growing popularity of the Boys’ Love (BL) genre in many countries, including Indonesia. This genre has become not only a form of entertainment but also a source of diverse interpretations, criticisms, and concerns among audiences. This study aims to analyze how viewers interpret Boys’ Love content, identify the criticisms and concerns that emerge, and examine audience reception positions based on Stuart Hall’s Encoding-Decoding theory. The research employed a qualitative approach using reception analysis as its method. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with four informants who had experience watching Boys’ Love content. The findings reveal that audiences have diverse interpretations of the Boys’ Love genre. Some informants perceive it as entertainment that promotes values such as empathy, self-acceptance, and respect for diversity. However, others criticize the idealized representation of romantic relationships and the ease of content accessibility through digital media. In addition, concerns related to religious values, social norms, and the influence of media on younger audiences were identified. Based on Stuart Hall’s theory, the informants’ reception positions were categorized into dominant-hegemonic, negotiated, and oppositional positions. These findings demonstrate that audiences actively construct meaning from media messages according to their backgrounds, experiences, and personal values. Therefore, interpretations of the Boys’ Love genre are not uniform but vary among viewers.

Pengaruh Media Sosial Tiktok Terhadap Pemahaman Keagamaan: Studi Pada Mahasiswa Psikologi um.id

Nur Hidayah Jumbawati — 2026-08-18

The rapid growth of TikTok has established it as a primary medium for disseminating religious content among university students, including psychology majors. TikTok’s personalized algorithm and short-video format enable content related to religious outreach (dakwah), worship motivation, and religious education to reach a wide audience. However, concerns remain regarding the credibility and depth of the information conveyed, necessitating digital literacy skills to filter the information received. This study aims to analyze the intensity of TikTok usage for religious content dissemination, students' ability to filter religious information, and the impact of this usage on the religious understanding of psychology students. The study employs a library research approach utilizing a literature review method. Data were gathered from relevant scientific articles and academic publications and subsequently analyzed using a qualitative descriptive method based on Uses and Gratifications Theory and the concept of digital literacy. The findings indicate that the intensity of TikTok usage for accessing religious content generally falls within the moderate-to-high range. The impact of TikTok usage on students' religious understanding varies and is contingent upon their ability to filter, evaluate, and verify the religious information obtained via social media. Consequently, digital literacy emerges as a crucial factor in fostering a religious understanding that is critical, profound, and responsible. These findings are expected to provide valuable insights for higher education institutions in developing digital and religious literacy programs, while also encouraging students to use social media wisely.

Rekonfigurasi Ekosistem Pers Digital: Platformisasi, Homeless Media, dan Respons Dewan Pers

Andi Fakhrullah — 2026-10-05

This study analyzes the reconfiguration of Indonesia’s digital press ecosystem through the Press Council’s construction of homeless media, platformization, and governance responses. The study employs a qualitative approach using qualitative content analysis of official Press Council news coverage published between April-Agustus, 2026. The research corpus was purposively selected from reports addressing homeless media, content creators, digital platforms, transformations in the press industry, economic rights of journalistic works, regulation, and institutional responses. The analysis applies three concepts: platformization to examine changes in information infrastructure, distribution, and economic processes; institutional boundary to identify shifts in institutional boundaries and actor positions within the press ecosystem; and platform governance to analyze the Press Council’s responses. The findings indicate that platformization has transformed news distribution mechanisms while affecting economic structures, media dependency, and the bargaining position of press companies. The emergence of homeless media reflects shifting boundaries among press companies, content creators, and platform-based information actors while generating regulatory and competitive asymmetries. The Press Council’s responses have developed through regulatory reviews, cross-institutional coordination, protection of journalistic works, complaint mechanisms, and reassessment of the Press Law’s relevance. These findings are verified through FGD transcripts with Press Council representatives, reinforcing issues of legality, regulatory burdens, and the need to adapt digital press governance.