Pola Komunikasi Karyawan Baru terhadap Karyawan Lama (Studi Deskriptif Kualitatif di RS PKU Muhammadiyah Kartasura Dilihat dari Sudut Pandang Teori Pengurangan Ketidakpastian)

As social beings, humans are inevitable from interacting with others. The process of interaction or communication usually starts between two people who meet each other or know each other. There are several contexts where someone meets others firstly, such as family, friendship, marriage, and organization. To start an interaction with a newly encountered person, there will be a sense of anxiety or uncertainty in a person. The sense of uncertainty often makes it difficult for a person to decide what to do when dealing with a new person. As the response, that person will try to reduce that sense of uncertainty. That situation also occurs to the new employees at the Hospital of PKU Muhammadiyah Kartasura who have just met with old or senior employees. They will 2 feel the uncertainty in them. To overcome uncertainty, there are three strategies: (1) passive strategy. (2) active strategies, and (3) interactive strategies. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative with 5 resource persons who are still categorized as new employees in RS PKU Muhammadiyah Kartasura. The results of this study indicate that the strategies employed by new employees to overcome uncertainty vary widely, but the uncertainty experienced by new employees in the hospital is a type of cognitive uncertainty, ie they are not sure how to behave, and they are not sure what they think about senior employees and vice versa

Manajemen Komunikasi Bencana Gempa Bumi Lombok Pada Masa Tanggap Darurat Di Lombok Nusa Tenggara Barat

Disaster events can occur anytime and anywhere, especially in Indonesia, most of its territory is designated as a disaster-prone area or ring of fire. Disasters are a series of threatening events and can disrupt people's systems of life and livelihoods. Lombok Island became an area that had experienced a devastating disaster namely the Earthquake on July 29, 2018. This study aims to describe the coordination of crisis response by the people of the Sankukun Hamlet, Genggelang Village, Gangga District, North Lombok Regency, West Nusa Tenggara. The theory used in this study is Theories Of Communication and Crisis Coordination, choosing Tierney. This research uses a qualitative approach. Research data were collected through in-depth interviews, observation and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the community in responding to the disaster crisis that occurred by way of coordination led by the Head of the Village. Then the community collaborates on three perspectives on crisis coordination, namely the Bureaucracy, Structural and Network Perspectives

Pengaruh Instagram Sebagai Media Pemberitaan Covid 19 Terhadap Tingkat Kepercayaan Mahasiswa (Studi Kasus Mahasiswa Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta)

During the pandemic, Instagram was used as a medium for disseminating information about COVID-19. As the media most favored by Generation Z, Instagram now has a very big influence in conveying information. The explanation in media dependency theory is the main source for obtaining information. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the Instagram variable as a news media. This type of research is quantitative explanatory with a sample of 97 respondents from UMS students obtained from the Slovin formula with purposive sampling technique. Data collection techniques in the study were carried out through a survey with a questionnaire instrument. The data analysis technique used is simple linear regression data analysis between the variable (X) Instagram as a media for reporting on Covid-19 and the variable (Y) the level of student confidence. The results showed that there was an influence between the variable (X) on the variable (Y) which explained that Instagram as a news media for Covid-19 had a significant effect on the level of student confidence. The influence of Instagram as a media for reporting Covid-19 on the level of student confidence is 38.6% with a significance of 0.000