VIRTUAL ROMANCE : Studi Etnografi PartisipasiObservasi (Participant Observation) tentang Keintiman yang Termediasi dalam Komunikasi Interpersonal melalui New Media diantara Pasangan Homoseksual

• Main Authors: , GITA MEINA AMALIA, , Dian Arymami, S.I.P
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2013
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/122328/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=62429
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Interpersonal communication is one way to create human relations. Through this way, it could develop from its first stage, knowing each other, into a deeper closeness, mentioned as intimacy. Along with the communication technology development, face to face communication is not the only way to establish intimacy. Nowadays, there are many new interpersonal communication medias with its various excess. Therefore, intimacy could also be built through new media. On the other hand, the intimacy is not only created on the opposite sex, but also on the same-sex. The homosexual case in Indonesia is still considered taboo, hence not so many homosexuals disclose their self in the society. This also happens when they are having same-sex relationship. They are not able to express their feeling due to the stigma of the Indonesia society. Finally, this ethnographic research spesifically discusses how the intimacy, that is owned by homosexual couples, could be formed through new media. There are four informants, two lesbians and two gays, who are participated in this study for six monts. The informants were unstructured interviewed in several meetings. The researcher also analyze the message on the media they used. The result shows that each informants have different social-psychology needs. It is affecting to their reason in choosing the media. Therefore, the intimacy is also different in every informants, depending on their intensity and closenees with their mate. As for the process of forming intimacy, it is felt as an aggregate process. Intimacy is not something separated, its process is the intimacy itself.