Humor Sebagai Bentuk Komunikasi Politik Di Indonesia (Studi Kasus: Stand-up Comedy Sammy Notaslimboy Menjelang Pilpres 2014)

Stand-up comedy yang telah populer lima tahun terakhir di Indonesia menyajikan sebuah bentuk hiburan baru di masyarakat Indonesia. Pementasan sebuah komedi yang dilakukan dengan monolog menjadikan comic sebagai pelaku stand-up comedy menjadi pusat perhatian penonton. Berbagai macam hal dapat dijadikan materi oleh comic, dan sering mengangkat isu-isu yang sedang berkembang. Tidak hanya mencari tawa melalui stand-up comedy nyatanya juga dapat mendekati isu-isu sensitif seperti politik. Berdasarkan hal tersebut , menjadi menarik kemudian adalah bagaimana stand-up comedy dapat dikatakan sebagai bentuk dari komunisai politik di Indonesia. Cara penyampaian pesan yang dilakukan Sammy sebagai subjek penelitian juga akan memperlihatkan, bagaimana pesan politik dapat disampaikan melalui hal yang ringan seperti stand-up comedy. Pemilihan metode analisis isi menjadi tepat digunakan dalam menjawab masalah yang ingin diketahui. Penggunaan teori terkait seni penyampaian pesan yakni retorika juga relevan digunakan dalam menganalisis pesan politik yang terkandung didalam stand-up comedy. Penyampaian pesan politik oleh Sammy Notaslimboy melalui stand-up comedy dapat dilakukan dengan beberapa cara, mulai dari penyampaian bit yang memiliki pola serupa dan terbagi menjadi beberapa bagian, sampai penggunaan bentuk emosional dengan menggunakan kata-kata maupun penggunaan intonasi. Dengan menggunakan metode analisis isi dan teori retorika dalam meneliti stand-up comedy sebagai bentuk komunikasi politik, dapat diketahui bahwa stand-up comedy merupakan salah satu bentuk dari komunikasi politik

Radius and chirality dependent conformation of polymer molecule at nanotube interface

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A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about a situation. Participants from 87 countries and regions (n = 21,644) were randomly assigned to one of two brief reappraisal interventions (reconstrual or repurposing) or one of two control conditions (active or passive). Results revealed that both reappraisal interventions (vesus both control conditions) consistently reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions across different measures. Reconstrual and repurposing interventions had similar effects. Importantly, planned exploratory analyses indicated that reappraisal interventions did not reduce intentions to practice preventive health behaviours. The findings demonstrate the viability of creating scalable, low-cost interventions for use around the world

Modeling the dynamic component of the geoid and topography of Venus

We analyze the Venusian geoid and topography to determine the relative importance of isostatic, elastic and dynamic compensation mechanisms over different degree ranges. The geoid power spectrum plotted on a log-log scale shows a significant change in its slope at about degree 40, suggesting a transition from a predominantly dynamic compensation mechanism at lower degrees to an isostatic and/or elastic mechanism at higher degrees. We focus on the dynamic compensation in the lower-degree interval. We assume that (1) the flow is whole mantle in style, (2) the long-wavelength geoid and topography are of purely dynamic origin, and (3) the density structure of Venus' mantle can be approximated by a model in which the mass anomaly distribution does not vary with depth. Solving the inverse problem for viscosity within the framework of internal loading theory, we determine the families of viscosity models that are consistent with the observed geoid and topography between degrees 2 and 40. We find that a good fit to the data can be obtained not only for an isoviscous mantle without a pronounced lithosphere, as suggested in some previous studies, but also for models with a high-viscosity lithosphere and a gradual increase in viscosity with depth in the mantle. The overall viscosity increase across the mantle found for the latter group of models is only partially resolved, but profiles with a ∼100-km-thick lithosphere and a viscosity increasing with depth by a factor of 10–80, hence similar to viscosity profiles expected in the Earth's mantle, are among the best fitting models

Modeling the dynamic component of the geoid and topography of Venus

We analyze the Venusian geoid and topography to determine the relative importance of isostatic, elastic and dynamic compensation mechanisms over different degree ranges. The geoid power spectrum plotted on a log-log scale shows a significant change in its slope at about degree 40, suggesting a transition from a predominantly dynamic compensation mechanism at lower degrees to an isostatic and/or elastic mechanism at higher degrees. We focus on the dynamic compensation in the lower-degree interval. We assume that (1) the flow is whole mantle in style, (2) the long-wavelength geoid and topography are of purely dynamic origin, and (3) the density structure of Venus' mantle can be approximated by a model in which the mass anomaly distribution does not vary with depth. Solving the inverse problem for viscosity within the framework of internal loading theory, we determine the families of viscosity models that are consistent with the observed geoid and topography between degrees 2 and 40. We find that a good fit to the data can be obtained not only for an isoviscous mantle without a pronounced lithosphere, as suggested in some previous studies, but also for models with a high-viscosity lithosphere and a gradual increase in viscosity with depth in the mantle. The overall viscosity increase across the mantle found for the latter group of models is only partially resolved, but profiles with a ∼100-km-thick lithosphere and a viscosity increasing with depth by a factor of 10–80, hence similar to viscosity profiles expected in the Earth's mantle, are among the best fitting models