PENERAPAN CITIZEN JOURNALISM PADA KONTEN DIGITAL VLOG YOUTUBE MENGENAI MUSEUM SRI BADUGA

Abstract

Vlog or video blog is a new trend in society since the birth of social media era
which is accessible and reachable for every kind of people. In general, a vlog
content is all about daily activity of the content maker that tend to purpose only
for their existent and fun. But however, there are actually vlogs that serve useful
information for society in that case is travel vlog about museum in “Belajar Pra
Sejarah di Museum Sri Baduga Bandung”. This vlog then had some analytical
process on its element and principle to seek if there is actually citizen journalism
element, because the purpose of a vlog is similar to citizen journalism content
for soft news category. This research used qualitative method and constructivist
paradigm with descriptive study approach to collect all the data and information
needed through observation, in depth interview and a few documentations of
this research. The result of this research is that vlog “Belajar Pra Sejarah di
Museum Sri Baduga Bandung” includes useful content and information for
society about Sri Baduga Museum existent and this vlog overall is similar to
citizen journalism content in feature news category because it includes all the
element and characteristics of feature journalism and the function of press in
journalism product. But however, in all conclusions this vlog needs some revisions in camera shots and contents in order to make audiens understand and find comfort in the vlog.