COMPREHENDING COMMUNICATION PATTERN OF TELEVISION MEDIA AMONG BINUS TV CREW MEMBERS 2016

Abstract

The purpose of this qualitative research is to describe the interpersonal communication
process, and to understand the interpersonal communication behavior of BINUS TV crew
members, from the point of view of culture of interpersonal communication in workplace.
The method of data collection used in this study is in-depth interview, observation, and
documentation. The research subject (key informant) to be interviewed are crew members of
Binus TV. Research found that the fluctuate condition structure of BINUS TV crew as if it
were antithesis of principle function in organization structure. Structural dynamics, which is
then referred to as Structuration emerged as the antithesis which has been constructed by
paradigm of function, which deliberately analogize the whole organization, institutions, and
social order in this world as congruent with the biological logic organs of the living body, are
fixed, rigid and a function which is not replaceable. This research concludes that networking
relationship and interpersonal communication among the crew members have became
institutionalized habit and non-formal cultural elements of Binus TV formal organization.