Empowerment Communications as a New Perspective in the Empowerment of Coastal Communities of Pase Raya
Bireuen District, Lhokseumawe City and Aceh Utara District
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.210125.005How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Communication Empowerment, Development, Communicative Action Theory, Social Ccapital, Costal Community and People Centered Development
- Abstract
This study aims to capture and understand empowerment communication as a new perspective in empowering coastal communities with the spirit of voicing the voiceless, in revealing social changes that occur in the development process as a description of the empowerment of coastal communities in communicating seen from the perspective of communicative action theory, people centered development, local wisdom and social capital. Whereas the presence of development communication is basically intended to contribute to the development process, especially in order to accelerate the diffusion process of innovation. The diffusion of innovation in development is an effort to meet the demands of modernization. Therefore, development is often equated with the term modernization. One indicator of modernization is the presence of communication technology that is very fast developing. Communication technology that was created to facilitate human work in the end was not able to place humans as subjects, but instead became the object of technology. The helplessness of individual humans when dealing with communication technology is a picture of the failure of the development process and human-centered social change. Communities are often powerless to stem the hegemony of communication technology. This research is a using paradigm qualitative interpretative approach. Data was collected through in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation. The results of this study include’ Changes in people’s or coastal communities mindsets are able to bring them to a pattern of behavior that is different from before. In the process of this change it can be seen that in the community there is a process of self-help to get out of stigma as a poor society. Communicative actions of the community based on four claims according to the communicative action theory of Habermas in the empowerment process show the empowerment of the coastal community in communicating that moves them in a living condition based on the existence of mutually agreed upon values, norms and social capital. The functioning of social groups into public spaces for the community to communicate and express, thus fostering emancipation and solidarity among the coastal community. Social groups are the most effective forum for empowerment at the coastal community level that enables individuals to organize themselves in these groups or collective self-empowerment so that a dialogical encounter occurs that fosters and strengthens awareness of communication and group solidarity.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Mirodiyatun Resi Nuridayati AU - Kamaruddin Hasan PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/26 TI - Empowerment Communications as a New Perspective in the Empowerment of Coastal Communities of Pase Raya BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science, Political Science, and Humanities (ICoSPOLHUM 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 24 EP - 31 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210125.005 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210125.005 ID - Nuridayati2021 ER -