The Use of YouTube Platform in Supporting Learning Motivation of Communication Science Students of Universities Nigeria Jakarta in 2020

Abstract

The presence of increasingly advanced technology certainly makes it easier for people to fulfill their daily needs. Technological developments are accompanied by the emergence of new media as a center or forum for public information in a country. Technological developments encourage community civilization by making the internet and social media as a unified whole, with the aim of using new public spaces for the community. Social media provides many changes and impacts on its users. Youtube is a social media that is in great demand by the public in the current era. This study aims to take a deeper look at how platform Youtube plays a role in helping the learning process and increasing students' learning motivation. By using a descriptive qualitative approach and data collection methods in the form of interviews with the subject of this research, namely the students of Communication Studies at the State University of Jakarta in 2020. This research resulted in several findings from the facts presented by the informants. The big picture of these findings can be concluded into two discussions, the first is that students as the younger generation are very familiar with social media, especially Youtube. Second, platform is very dominant in helping to increase student learning motivation.