Pengaruh Pemberitaan Virus Covid-19 Media Online Detik.com Terhadap Pola Pikir Mahasiswa Fisip Semester 8 Untag Surabaya

Abstract

The phenomenon of the Covid-19 virus, makes online media provide all the information needs for the public. However, the news about the Covid-19 virus caused readers to experience changes in their mindset and behavior after reading information about the Covid-19 virus. The current study aims to identify the effects of the news of the Covid-19 virus on the online media Detik.com. This research uses Uses And Gratification Theory, with descriptive quantitative research methods. This study uses a sampling technique with Probability Sampling. After getting the data through a questionnaire instrument, the researcher tested it using SPSS. As a result, there is a significant influence from the news of the Covid-19 virus in the online media Detik.com on the mindset of 8th-semester Fisip students of Untag Surabaya, but the strength is very low at 0.129 as seen in the determination analysis which is in the interval 0.00 – 0.199. Then, for the results of the hypothesis based on the test, it shows that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted because the value is 4,016 > 1,984.