Arsip

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 8 No 1 (2026)

    This issue brings together studies on religious communication, digital media, social cohesion, counter-radicalization, governmental crisis communication, and the contemporary relevance of political thought. The articles examine religious leaders as Islamic public relations practitioners through a philosophy-of-science review of da’wah communication practice (Hidayat, 2026), the influence of social media on religious moderation among university students (Munawaruzaman & Setiawan, 2026), the effectiveness of the National Counterterrorism Agency’s deradicalization program in supporting reintegration and counter-radicalization at Sentul Special Correctional Facility (Prayitno, 2026), crisis communication by the Prabowo administration in responding to the pig’s-head terror case targeting the Tempo newsroom (Faisyal & Chaniago, 2026), and the relationship between Soekarno’s thought, technology, and Generation Z through the concept of digital Marhaens (Silitonga & Tampomuri, 2026).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 7 No 2 (2025)

    This issue examines communication across legislative politics, electoral participation, environmental advocacy, political framing, media transformation, digital citizenship, journalism education, and national communication systems. The articles analyze groupthink in deliberations over Indonesia’s Tobacco Bill (Prayitno, 2025), challenges faced by university students in monitoring elections to support fair and democratic electoral processes (Priyatna & Sukmaranti, 2025), environmental da’wah grounded in Qur’anic and Hadith perspectives for disaster risk reduction (Faisyal & Hidayat, 2025), the use of virtue politics in the PPP’s political communication through the framing of Petiga TV YouTube content (Hutapea & Razaq, 2025), the effects of television-media efficiency measures on contributor journalists amid the reduction of news programs in the digital-disruption era (Haris, 2025), digital citizenship and participation on Change.org as instruments of social control (Silitonga, 2025), declining interest in journalism and its implications for the development of critical thinking among Generation Z (Elu & Pertiwi, 2025), and the Indonesian communication system in the digital era through a literature review (Babys et al., 2025).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 7 No 1 (2025)

    This issue extends the journal?s engagement with political discourse, bureaucratic governance, values-oriented media, spirituality, public-policy communication, and cultural-religious interaction. The articles analyze the 2024 annual-session speech of the Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives through Teun A. van Dijk?s critical discourse analysis (Setiowati et al., 2025), examine the perceived failure of the Mental Revolution in addressing corruption and rent-seeking practices within the bureaucracy (Faisyal & Babys, 2025), explore the role of Kick Andy as an inspirational medium for cultivating Pancasila values among Indonesian youth (Bakara et al., 2025), interpret the individual spiritual meanings associated with pilgrimage to the tomb of Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin in Banten (Sudarmika & Helmina, 2025), examine corporate communication strategies concerning the implementation of the TAPERA public housing savings policy at PT CJ Logistics Service Indonesia (Setiagiri et al., 2025), and discuss the continuing encounter and synthesis between Islam and Javanese culture (Priyatna & Sukmaranti, 2025).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 6 No 2 (2024)

    This issue presents a particularly diverse set of communication studies spanning public health, artificial intelligence, journalism, political campaigns, intercultural relations, rhetoric, media representation, and legislative communication. The articles investigate factors contributing to the rising prevalence of stunting in South Central Timor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (Babys et al., 2024), the use of artificial intelligence in journalism and the importance of verification-based journalistic practices (Faisyal & Haris, 2024), media framing of the ten-year sentence imposed in the Mardani H. Maming bribery and corruption case by Tempo.co and Suara.com (Dwijayanti et al., 2024), Anies Rasyid Baswedan?s political campaign communication on Instagram during the 2024 presidential election (Pratama et al., 2024), intercultural friendship relationships through the perspective of similarity-attraction theory (Sudarmika, 2024), Anies Baswedan?s political rhetoric during the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election debates (Prasetyo et al., 2024), anthropomorphism and the construction of human self-image within the animation industry (Mudjiyanto et al., 2024), and communication dynamics and groupthink in deliberations over Indonesia?s Tobacco Bill (Prayitno, 2024).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 6 No 1 (2024)

    This issue addresses the growing significance of political strategy, information credibility, digital platforms, technological development, digitally mediated justice, and intercultural relations. The articles examine the political communication strategy employed by Al Haris and Abdullah Sani in winning the 2020 Jambi gubernatorial election (Hutapea & Saputra, 2024), the consequences of information abundance and digitalization in the post-truth era (Mudjiyanto et al., 2024), educational content on the TikTok account @mayatoomuch as a medium of self-expression and self-existence (Dwijayanti & Kesuma, 2024), factors inhibiting the development of digital villages in Indonesia (Babys et al., 2024), the use of social media and citizen journalism in the public pursuit of justice surrounding the Vina Cirebon case (Faisyal & Sukmaranti, 2024), and stereotypes toward Papuan residents within the intercultural environment of Mess Cendrawasih (Sudarmika & Fransiska, 2024).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 5 No 2 (2023)

    This issue reflects increasing attention to digital governance and media transformation while also engaging with public health, artificial intelligence, social representation, and local cultural traditions. The articles examine cybercrime, citizen data protection, and their implications for electoral integrity (Mudjiyanto et al., 2023), differences in the framing of Indonesia?s national capital relocation by Republika.co.id and Tempo.co (Hutapea & Sinambela, 2023), health communication methods used by surveillance volunteers to educate communities about COVID-19 during the endemic period (Nurhaipah & Erdiyanti, 2023), the adaptation of SCTV and Indosiar television journalists to changing working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic (Haris & Prayitno, 2023), philosophical perspectives on artificial intelligence and its potential contribution to an Indonesian civilization grounded in human values (Babys et al., 2023), representations of social stigma in the short film Tilik through Tzvetan Todorov?s semiotic framework (Elu & Sukmaranti, 2023), and the Tabuik tradition as a synthesis of Islamic heritage and local Pariaman culture (Faisyal & Priyatna, 2023).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 5 No 1 (2023)

    This issue brings together theoretical and empirical discussions on media studies, popular culture, social identity, ideological resilience, artificial intelligence, and public relations. The articles reconsider the development of media studies from agenda setting and social construction to representation and consensus formation (Mudjiyanto et al., 2023), analyze representations of hope in BTS?s Permission to Dance music video through Roland Barthes? semiotics (Sudarmika et al., 2023), examine the reconstruction of self-concept among former prisoners returning to society (Hutapea, 2023), investigate university students? perceptions of national ideological resilience in confronting global capitalism (Babys & Prayitno, 2023), discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence, human beings, and religious activities (Faisyal, 2023), and explore public relations activities aimed at maintaining harmonious relationships among residents of Sunter Parkview Apartment (Banu & Sukmaranti, 2023).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 4 No 2 (2022)

    This issue examines contemporary communication phenomena involving global cultural events, digital literacy, public health, personal branding, media political economy, and media adaptation. The articles explore the construction of universal brotherhood in the official theme of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar through Roland Barthes? semiotics (Elu, 2022), media literacy and hate speech within the liberalized environment of social media (Hutapea et al., 2022), perceptions of health-protocol communication among visitors to the Cikarang Wholesale Center Market during the COVID-19 pandemic (Sanjaya et al., 2022), Kiara Leswara?s use of Make-Up Therapy content to construct personal branding as a beauty influencer (Sukmaranti et al., 2022), the tension between media independence and business interests within the political economy of media (Mudjiyanto et al., 2022), and the management strategies adopted by Media Indonesia to maintain the existence of its printed newspaper in the digital era (Supriatin & Babys, 2022).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 4 No 1 (2022)

    This issue addresses communication in the contexts of international conflict, counter-radicalization, citizen journalism, corporate promotion, community empowerment, and digitally mediated social interaction. The articles analyze Connie Rahakundini Bakrie?s political communication concerning the Russia?Ukraine conflict (Babys & Sukmaranti, 2022), the role of Duta Harmoni in countering radical propaganda in cyberspace (Prayitno, 2022), communication motives underlying citizen journalism contributions to Citizen6 on Liputan6.com (Santoso et al., 2022), corporate communication strategies used by TIKI Jakarta to promote its delivery services (Hikmah & Sanjaya, 2022), communication strategies adopted by village officials in empowering productive economic activities in Cinangka Village (Fikruzzaman, 2022), and the role of smartphones in shaping social interaction among adolescents (Faisyal et al., 2022).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 3 No 2 (2021)

    This issue brings together research on digital cultural communication, gender representation, organizational communication, media effects, social construction, and journalistic practice. The articles examine the communication process of Minangkabau comedy through Praz Teguh?s YouTube channel (Evzamir & Edinbur, 2021), representations of feminism in the Sipatmo dance through Roland Barthes? semiotics (Sudarmika & Arifin, 2021), organizational control strategies in improving product quality and customer interest at Talk Bogor coffee shop (Babys & Prabowo, 2021), symbolic violence in television and its potential effects on children?s behavior (Launa & Mudjiyanto, 2021), the social construction of the lives of pregnant women involved in prostitution in Jakarta (Hutapea, 2021), and the application of literary journalism principles in John Hersey?s Hiroshima (Abdurahman et al., 2021).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 3 No 1 (2021)

    This issue reflects the growing importance of political negotiation, national cyber security, language, digital communication, mental health, and electoral public opinion. The articles examine negotiation strategies between pro-government and opposition parliamentary factions during deliberations on the 2017 Election Bill (Prayitno, 2021), cyberwarfare threats in the digital era and possible national security responses for Indonesia (Babys, 2021), the existence and changing meanings of language within the field of law (Purwanti, 2021), cyberbullying on Instagram and its implications for the mental health of Generation Z in Jakarta (Laora & Sanjaya, 2021), and the opinions of Central Jakarta residents concerning the 2024 general election (Edinbur & Prabowo, 2021).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 2 No 2 (2020)

    This issue explores the intersections of political communication, communication ethics, professional communication, intercultural interaction, cultural symbolism, and digital democracy. The articles analyze the framing of the Corruption Eradication Commission’s arrest of Romahurmuziy by the online news portal RMOL.co (Launa, 2020), the philosophical foundations of communication ethics based on Pancasila (Babys, 2020), communication soft skills required of hotel receptionists (Kimiawan, 2020), intercultural communication differences within workplace environments (Sudarmika, 2020), the symbolic meaning of the gecko motif in Maumere’s Utan Welak woven cloth (Sanjaya, 2020), and the potential threats posed by cyber democracy to democratic life and the state (Faisyal, 2020).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 2 No 1 (2019)

    This issue addresses communication within workplaces and media institutions alongside questions of cultural identity, popular media, and consumer behavior. The articles examine the domination and legitimation of expatriate workers in relation to local employees at Crystal Jade Restaurant (Sudarsono & Hertanto, 2019), deliberative democracy and the political activities of press workers in a public communication space in Jakarta (Gora, 2019), the relationship between internet media and the press system (Rorong, 2019), representations and meanings of violence in The Human Centipede III through semiotic analysis (Dwijayanti & Reskapati, 2019), the phenomenon of Korean popular culture among students at Universitas Satya Negara Indonesia (Olivia & Hapsari, 2019), and the influence of brand personality on customer loyalty toward Zara at Kota Kasablanka Mall (Larasati, 2019).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 1 No 2 (2018)

    This issue brings together studies on media discourse, self-presentation, political image construction, television audiences, media labor, and gender representation. The articles investigate critical discourse surrounding media coverage of the implementation of the Mental Revolution and its relationship to law enforcement (Sanjaya, 2018), Erving Goffman?s concept of the presentation of self in understanding everyday social reality (Rorong, 2018), the dramaturgical construction of political party images through mass and social media (Chaniago, 2018), the relationship between the presentation of the KDI television program and audience perceptions (Larasati, 2018), the commodification of media workers within the television entertainment industry (Sudarsono, 2018), and feminist perspectives on the struggle for gender justice represented in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Tayibnapis & Dwijayanti, 2018).

  • Oratio Directa
    Vol 1 No 1 (2018)

    This inaugural issue addresses a broad range of communication concerns encompassing intercultural interaction, political communication, identity formation, international rhetoric, interpersonal relationships, and gendered public opinion. The articles examine symbolic interaction among employees from different ethnic backgrounds (Hutapea, 2018), political communication among members of the Jakarta Regional House of Representatives in deliberations over the reclamation regulation (Edinbur & Budianto, 2018), the construction of self-identity among female laundry workers at Daar el-Qolam Islamic boarding school (Sudarmika, 2018), Sukarno?s anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist rhetoric in international communication (Roring, 2018), human relationships and interpersonal closeness through the perspective of social penetration theory (Rorong, 2018), and women?s opinions following the relocation of Kalijodo residents to the Pulogebang flats through the lens of muted group theory (Girsang, 2018).