Pola Komunikasi dan Interaksi Keluarga dalam Penggunaan Smartphone di Kelurahan Belawan Sicanang Kecamatan Medan Belawan

Abstract

The title of this research is Communication Patterns and Family Interaction in Smartphone Use in Belawan Sicanang Village, Medan Belawan District. This study aims to determine patterns of communication and interaction in families that have high intensity of smartphone usage. This study uses qualitative methods, namely research that produces descriptive data in the form of written or oral words from people or behaviors that can be observed. Data collection in this study uses interview and observation methods. The results of this study are communication patterns and interactions in the family between husband and wife, mother and child, father and child, brother and sister in using a smartphone so that the intensity of family communication is reduced. Communication patterns carried out in the family greatly affect the behavior and attitudes that children have. The communication patterns used by parents in children are authoritative communication patterns or democratic communication patterns. So that communication between parents and children can be established either as a communicator or as a communicant. Communication patterns that must be applied are interactions not only from parents to children but also between children to parents and children to children.