Yogyakarta, 13th November 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) FISIPOL UGM came back with the 44th Digitalk. This discussion was titled as Gig Economy in the Middle of a Pandemic; Can It Survive? and presented Mutamad Imam, Business Manager of Maxim Taxi, as the speaker. Moderated by Firya Qurratu’ain Abisono, Partnership Associate of CfDS, this discussion was started at 03.30 p.m.

As usual, the discussion began with an opening—the moderator introduced himself, explained a few topics to be raised, and invited the speaker to introduce and tell about his background. In this discussion, Imam talked more about his experiences and practices—what he and the team had done and would do. read more

Yogyakarta, November 12th 2020—Career Development Center (CDC) came back with the third Mental Health Society on Thursday (12/11). In this occasion, CDC brought the theme Recognizing Gender Based Violence and Healthy Relationships. This webinar presented Kalis Mardiasih (Gender Equality Campaigner) and Vincent from PLUSH and it was moderated by Arie Eka Junia from Fisipol Crisis Center UGM.

This event was organized by the CDC in collaboration with peer counselors and the Fisipol Crisis Center. The FCC is a unit under the CDC which is responsible for handling and preventing cases of sexual violence that occur against the members of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of UGM. read more

Yogyakarta, November 9th 2020—After having the introductory events last october, Soprema finally officially opened their core events – competitions, incubation, pitching, and virtual expos. Before that, Soprema has already held a launch for people that want to register. Symbolically, the Soprema pening this time is accompanied by the sound of otok-otok.

Through a press conference held in Bumbu Desa, Sagan, Hempri Suyatna as the Head of Event in Soprema 2020 explained that this week Soprema will focus on the core events, especially the competitions and incubations which are held virtually. Aside from competitions and incubations, there will also be a virtual expo held this week. Though the grand final will be held by the end of the week, the event closing and winner announcement will only be held on December 4th. read more

Yogyakarta, November 6th 2020 – Career Development Center (CDC) Fisipol UGM held another discussion called “Job Hunters: What Should I Do?”. This discussion was a part of the Mental Health Society CDC FISIPOL UGM webinar series. This event was held by CDC in order to give tips to manage stresses and career planning in the future. This discussion presented a speaker, Emmanuella Reika, a Senior Partnership Event Specialist of Nusa Talent and Galuh Setia, a psychologist of STIPSI Yogyakarta and HR Practitioner. read more

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