The uses of gadget have become popular across generation, no exception with early childhood. Nowadays, parents in big cities can easily provide gadget to their children with variety of purposes, starting to maintain communication to the means of entertaining themselves. Unfortunately, it will result a negative effect such as an addiction and impact on interaction patterns with parents. This qualitative research study aims to explore and form patterns of interaction between parents and children that are ideal to face the negative effects of using gadget. This research is located in Malang City since it is the second major city in East Java with the high level of gadget use among early childhood, meanwhile in-depth interviews and observations are chosen to get the data. The study found that early childhood in Malang city have become addicted to gadget for several reasons. First of all, they tend to not care about the environment. Secondly, they make gadgets as a condition to do something so they could not obey the orders of parents, receive information well and unable to communicate with parents. Lastly children often play freely with gadgets without time constraints so they do not have time to build harmonious relationships with parents. This study suggests associative-based associative patterns to face the problem. The interaction pattern includes collaboration, accommodation and assistance with the principles of openness, empathy, supportive attitude, positive attitude and equality.

Gender and power related speech patterns have been a focus of communication studies. Women and power used to be in opposite side of each other. On this ground, we were intrigued to investigate whether being a female leader has something to do with defying certain assumed ideals of women speech. This case study was conducted to women leaders engaged in a social community called Pelangi Nusantara. Concerning this study, we focused on the women leaders’ speech to examine the stereotyped-speech-pattern related to the use of hedges and politeness strategies in female speakers albeit holding a high position. A descriptive qualitative approach was employed along with the purposive technique to select the interviewees. Based on the analysis, it is revealed that despite holding a high position in the community, the female leaders mostly showed the stereotyped-speech-pattern through the use of hedges, convergence, and politeness strategies as influenced by their cultural background.

Adaptasi lintas budaya merupakan sebuah proses penyesuaian yang panjang untuk medapatkan kenyamanan ketika berada di lingkungan baru dan beragam. Mahasiswa Manggarai, Flores (Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur) yang tinggal di Malang memiliki karakteristik identitas yang berbeda dan hal ini mempengaruhi proses interaksi dan adaptasi dengan penduduk setempat. Komunikasi yang dibangun antara mahasiswa dan penduduk setempat ini tidak dapat dipahami tanpa mempelajari langkah-langkah dasar dalam proses adaptasi lintas budaya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan paradigma interpretif dengan maksud dapat memperoleh pemahaman mendalam dari sudut pandang mahasiswa Manggarai dalam adaptasinya dengan penduduk setempat. Penelitian ini pada akhirnya bertujuan untuk berkontribusi pada studi komunikasi antar budaya di Indonesia, terutama untuk memahami dan memperdalam komunikasi antara budaya masyarakat dari luar daerah dan masyarakat setempat.

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