Yogyakarta, November 2nd 2020—Center for Digital Society held Digital Discussion #38 titled “Everything You Need to Know About Starting a Webcomic on Sunday night. In this event CfDS invited Desprofit Satriantomo, the author of “Baper” at Line Webtoon as the speaker. The event started at 7 pm and was moderated by Devia Putri Maharani, an event assistant at CfDS.

As usual, the moderator started by elaborating the group rules and introducing the speaker. Next, the moderator asked a question about why people choose webcomics over printed comics in this digital age. Most people said that webcomics are more simple, interesting, and eye catching. From the view of the creator, the main aim of webcomic is to make it easier for readers and to invite more consumers. According to Desprofit, from the creative process side, there are no fundamental differences between webcomic and conventional comics. There are several comic artists that draw digitally but distribute their comics through printed media, such as Rosalina Lintang (Instagram account: lintankleen) a comic artist of “Scrambled”. Rosalina Lintang feels that having a physical comic that we can hold gives more satisfaction and pride. “Here, all of us are comics aficionados, making and reading comics is supposed to be fun so we have to enjoy both,” Desprofit said. read more

Yogyakarta, October 30th 2020—Celebrating the World Mental Health Day, Career Development Center (CDC) Fisipol UGM invited all the academics staff and members of Fisipol UGM to concern in the importance of mental health in the series of event of Mental Health Society that brought a theme ‘Surviving Pandemic: Mental Well-Being Through Digital Society’. There were three webinars in this Mental Health Society event that would discuss about mental health, career, and sexual violence.

This series of Mental Health Society 2020 was started by a talkshow about mental health titled as ‘Digital Well-Being: Coping with Anxiety, Insecurity, and Loneliness’ which presented two speakers, they were Nurul Kusuma, the Psychologist of Center for Public Mental Health (CPMH) UGM and Diah Purwita Rini as the Psychologist of Miracle Yogyakarta. read more

Yogyakarta, October 29th 2020—Career Preparation Class by Career Development Center (CDC) Fisipol UGM, together with Paramesti Putri and Rosvita Walanda Sitorus from the NGO Save The Children (28/10). Save The Children is a non profit and non government organization which concerns in helping the Indonesian children for accessing basic needs, such as health and education.

Non Government Organization can be a choice for people who interested in humanity issues. Other than the big chance to develop and networking, an experience of working in the NGO could be a meaningful experience for ourselves and the society. read more

Yogyakarta, October 28th 2020—Analyzing the Marriage Story movie, this film discussion is held in the form of a webinar by inviting the co-author of the article “Who Marries Whom On Silver Screen?Religion And Social Class In Marriage Patterns In Contemporary Indonesian Films”, Nabhan Choiron, as well as the co-editor of Youth Study Journal Marriage Special Edition, Dr. Ariane Utomo. Guided by Dana Fahadi from YouSure, this discussion started by delving more into youth’s struggle to maintain relationships by seeing the Marriage Story movie. read more

Yogyakarta, October 26^th 2020—The Center for Digital Society held the 37^th Digital Discussion on Monday night (26/10). The event held through Whatsapp Group raised the topic of “Make Your LinkedIn Profile Stand Out”. Yacinta Shafira, The Most Outstanding Student of UGM the Faculty of Engineering, is the speaker in the session. This event was held from 19.00-21.00 WIB and moderated by Devia Putri Maharani, CfDS’s event assistant.

As a university student, we are familiar with LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a social media used to build professional career. According to the data from LinkedIn Economic Graph 2020, LinkedIn has 706M+ professional members, 50M+ companies, and 11M+ Job Listing. The LinkedIn profile is great in Google, and it can be beneficial for recruiters who wants to know more about our profile. Additionally, this year’s LinkedIn algorithm makes it easier for us to be noticed by people and for our post to get plenty likes or comments. “Of course, the benefits of LinkedIn is abundant, such as the vast professional network, recruiters that are active in talent-sourcing in LinkedIn, and the plenty business partners,” Yacinta said. read more

Yogyakarta, October 23rd 2020—IRCCT INKA KOMAHI cooperated with Scandinavian Community (Scanity) UGM held a discussion to discuss social democracy from the United States and Scandinavian’s point of view. The topic was raised because in the United States, ideas about social democracy have increased in popularity in recent years. Figures like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and various other United States progressive Democrats have also come up with ideas such as The Green New Deal and Universal Basic Income. read more

Yogyakarta, October 23rd 2020—Center for Digital Society held an event Difussion #36 on Friday (23/10). Questioning about identity theft in cyberspace and the Regional Head Elections (Pilkada) 2020, CfDS raised discussion with the title Why not Digital? On this occasion, the speakers were research associates of CfDS, Irnasya Shafira and Fajar Cahyono. The event started at 03.30 p.m. and was moderated by Christophorus Ariobumi, partnership assistant of CfDS.

Irnasya Shafira, in her presentation raised the topic The Ghosts in Our Wires: A Contemplation on the Looming Threat of Identity Theft in the Cyberspace. Cybersecurity or security in cyberspace covers our daily lives. Cybersecurity elements consist of application security, information security, network security, disaster recovery or business continuity planning, operational security, end-user education. According to Irnas, from these elements, the end-user is the most important thing in cybersecurity that we can contemplate. read more

Yogyakarta, October 22nd 2020—Sociopreneur Muda (Soprema) Fisipol UGM held a webinar Bincang Soprema entitled ‘Sociopreneur Dynamics in the Middle of the COVID-19 Pandemic’ on Wednesday (21/10). This webinar was held online on Zoom and presented two speakers. Both of the speakers were Resta Aqabah Amjad, Sirvano Consulting and Paksi Raras, social activist of Jogja Lawan Corona. The moderator of this webinar was Eka Zuni Lusi, a lecturer of the Department of Social Development and Welfare of Fisipol UGM. read more

Yogyakarta, October 21st 2020—Soprema Talk titled Sociopreneur Dynamic in the Midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic was held Wednesday, September 21st 2020. This Soprema talk is one part of the Soprema event that is held annually. In 2020, Soprema Talk raised the theme on how to survive in the covid-19 pandemic. To encourage the civil society, especially sociopreneurs to survive in the middle of the pandemic, Soprema Talk invited two speakers which are Retas Aqabah Amjad as the CEO of Shirvano Consulting as well as Paksi Raras as a social activist from Jogja Against Corona. read more

Jakarta, October 19th 2020—Gadjah Mada University (UGM) and Whatsapp launched a training program themed “Women Against Political Hoax  through Whatsapp in the 2020 Regional Election” to support the women community in four cities in being an agent of change to fight political fake news. This training is a continuation of the research titled “WhatsApp group and the Digital Literacy of Indonesia’s Women” which was published in the start of the year by UGM’s Department of Communication Studies. For most women, Whatsapp is a place for their social life where half of the Whatsapp group is meant to communicate with family and friends. Amongst 250 women respondents, 70% admitted to have up to 10 WhatsApp groups where they often encounter fake news and disinformation. read more