Open AccessMemahami Hambatan dan Cara Lansia Mempelajari Media Sosial
Author(s) -
Rizqi Ganis Ashari
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
jurnal ilmu komunikasi/jurnal ilmu komunikasi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2548-8643
pISSN - 1829-6564
DOI - 10.24002/jik.v15i2.1245
Subject(s) - intrapersonal communication , social media , phenomenology (philosophy) , psychology , qualitative research , social psychology , gerontology , sociology , medicine , interpersonal communication , computer science , social science , world wide web , philosophy , epistemology
This article aims to understand the various barriers and experiences of elderlies in learning how to use social media as part of their lives. For that purposes, an in-depth interview was conducted through qualitative method with phenomenology approach on two senior informants in Semarang area. The results of the study indicate the elderly are experiencing: (1) intrapersonal, (2) structural and (3) functional barriers. Intrapersonal barriers are overcome by social factors, whereas structural and functional obstacles are overcome by individual factors. It is also found that the overall elderly’s effort to adopt social media emerged out of necessity..