Yogyakarta, August 28th 2020—Center for Digital Society UGM cooperated with Association for Elections and Democracy (Perkumpulan untuk Pemilu dan Demokrasi/Perludem) and Facebook Indonesia held an online webinar. It was called ‘Regional Head Elections and Digital Campaign in the Middle of a Pandemic’, this webinar presented four speakers from various expertises, from the organizer itself—Facebook Indonesia and Perludem—, to General Elections Commission of Republic of Indonesia (KPU RI) and Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu). The representation of CfDS—Faiz Rahman, Adjunct Researcher of CfDS—also joined in this discussion and was moderated this discussion. read more

Yogyakarta, August 28th 2020—The ongoing pandemic, which houses not only workers, but also students, has also made many adjustments that have been made quickly by the University and Faculty to continue serving teaching and learning needs. One of them is the need for access to borrow books from the campus library. Answering this problem, the UGM Library held a small talk session on the Menyapa Library channel (Instagram: @perpustkaan_ugm) which used the Instagram Live feature. In this session, the Menyapa Library was held for the 10th time with the main topic being related to the library services of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and Faculty of Law in the new normal era. Each faculty was represented by Sunarno, S.IP., M.A. (Faculty of Law) and Yuli Hesti, S.IP. (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences). read more

Yogyakarta, August 27th 2020—In this semester, Center for Digital Society, Forbil Institute, and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UGM collaborated to organize Digital Intelligence Lecture Series. Digital Intelligence Lecture Series is an elective course for the students who already completed their first year (entering the third semester). Apart from holding regular lecture classes, Digital Intelligence Lecture Series also provides online discussions with a speaker that relates to digital intelligence issues. As an opening and introduction class, Digital Intelligence Lecture Series held the first online discussion called ‘Observing the Position of Indonesian Students in the Digital Age Job Market’. read more

Yogyakarta, 26 Agustus 2020—Center for Digital Society Fisipol UGM is back with OPOSIT on Wednesday night. In this session, the seventh OPOSIT brought the topic of Indonesia Digital 2020.There are two main discussion materials related to that topic; Indonesia’s quality of digital literacy until now and the development of internet platforms that we use. The event went on from 7 to 8 pm on @cfds_ugm Instagram live.

The host gave the audience a chance to say their opinion regarding the topic by asking for permission to the host to join the @cfds_ugm instagram live. The first person that got the chance to talk was Fahri. Fahri said that he has known the internet since 2020, but at that time, he only used Facebook, Friendster, and Twitter. Seeing the growth of the platform and the diversifying user of the internet, Fahri sees that now internet users (netizen) are more critical. They are bolder in expressing themselves, stating their opinion, and they are wilder when giving comments. A couple of years ago, social media was more private. But now, everyone can see our opinion even if they do not follow our account. read more

Yogyakarta, 24 Agustus 2020—Center for Digital Society Fisipol UGM is back with the 31-st session of Digital Discussion. In this session, CfDS asked Smart People who are interested in journalism to join in to talk about ethical conduct in online journalism. The discussion was held through a Whatsapp Group with Kristian Oka Prasetyadi, a journalist for Kompas News, as the speaker. This discussion wants to uncover what is the ethical conduct to find sources, conduct an interview, and upload a news credibly and with no misinformation or disinformation. read more

Yogyakarta, August 21st 2020 – #dirumahaja quarantine time was not someone to stay productive. It also happened to Taufik Kemal, a content creator who shared his story for being productive in creative content in SmallTalk Creative Hub FISIPOL UGM. SmallTalk itself is a weekly discussion that is held by Creative Hub FISIPOL UGM on their Instagram official account @chubfisipolugm. Kemal’s interest to dive into the world of creative content arose from his hobby, that is, watching YouTube’s videos about cinematography. Slow but sure, there was a desire in his heart to not only be a creative content lover, but also to become a maker. He learned by himself, in 2017 Kemal started his journey as a content creator, until he could make neat content. read more

Yogyakarta, August 21st 2020 – Jamaah Muslim Fisipol successfully held a webinar with a theme ‘Muslimah and Self Management’ on Friday night (21/8). This third session of CANGCIMAN (Changing Better While Charging Iman) was held on Zoom Live. Azka Yahdiyani Putri, the founder of @sedekahbaju.yk, @anfaalfoundation, and @lenteraharmoni.id became the speaker of this session. As a preface, Azka talked about the bitterness in life where she felt depressed due to experiencing conflicts and violence in the family. read more

Yogyakarta, August 17th 2020—Gadjah Mada University’s (UGM) Faculty of Social and Political Science is back with a praise-worthy achievement which is launching a book titled New Normal, Socio-Economic Changes, and Politics Post Covid-19. This book includes 18 chapters and was written by 24 UGM and non-UGM scholars from various studies such as politics, social, health, creative economy, and psychology. Through the soft launching at Zoom and Youtube streaming, Fisipol UGM and UGM Press invited editors and writers to talk about the outline of that book. This soft launching also invited several speakers; Medelina K, Hendytio, Velix V. Wanggai, and Jaleswari Pramodhawardhani. In the event, there were the Principal of UGM, Panut Malyono as well as the Dean of Fisipol UGM, Erwan Agus Purwanto. The moderator of the event was Treviliana Eka Putri and the event started at 11.00 am. read more

Yogyakarta, August 14th 2020—‘Media and the Motion of Power (Relation) in Corona Pandemic Era’ became the theme that brought by the Department of Communication Science in its regular online discussion, Ngopi #6 which presented two internal speakers, they were the lecturers of the Department of Communication Science, FISIPOL  UGM. Dr. Dian Arymani and Budi Irwanto, Ph.D. This discussion which was held last Friday became interesting because the theme was based on conditions in today’s society and was selected through academic reflexivity.In the beginning of this online discussion, the moderator Nyarwi Ahmad, Ph.D., a lecturer of the Department of Communication Science UGM, gave an intermezzo that with the change in activity which to this day still depends on online sources, it indirectly empowered the media. For the examples, there was a change of identity, the information overload, so that without realizing it, the media often became a reference which used to form a reality that is easy to accept in this difficult situation. read more

Yogyakarta, August 13th 2020—In June, In June, a case of alleged methamphetamine use has emerged against comedian Bintang Emon after he gave a criticism on social media regarding the prosecutor’s demands in the case of pouring hard water against Novel Baswedan. This case showed us, even though its characteristic was user generated content, giving opinion on social media is not completely free and bound by certain restrictions or controls.This issue was discussed in the Komako (Communication Student Corps) Monthly Discussion UGM which presented two speakers, they were Mashita Fandia as a lecturer of Department of Communication Science and Unggul Sagena as the Head of Information Access Division of SAFEnet (12/08). The discussion was titled as ‘Social Media: Aspiration’s Container or Aspiration’s Boomerang?’. It discussed the limitations that appeared on social media and guidelines in using social media. read more